Winners
- 1999 – Henry Mayer for All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery.
- 2000 – Witold Rybczynski for A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century.
- 2001 – David Nasaw for The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst.
- 2002 – Diane McWhorter for Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
- 2003 – Samantha Power for Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
- 2004 – David Maraniss for They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967.
- 2005 – Evan Wright for Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War.
- 2006 – Nate Blakeslee for Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town.
- 2007 – Lawrence Wright for The Looming Tower: Al Quaeda and the Road to 9/11.
- 2008 – Jeffrey Toobin for The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.
- 2009 – Jane Mayer for The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals.
- 2010 – David Finkel for The Good Soldiers.
- 2011 – Eliza Griswold for The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam.
- 2012 – Daniel J. Sharfstein for "The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White."
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—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)