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2009 Book Award: Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners during the Revolutionary War
By Dr. Edwin G. Burrows (Basic Books)
- Honorable Mention: If by Sea: The Forging of the American Navy- from the
Revolution to the War of 1812, George C. Daughan (Basic Books)
- Special Recognition: Taxation in Colonial America, Alvin Rabushka
(Princeton University Press)
- Special Recognition: John Adams, Miniseries, HBO Films/Playtone Production
2008 Book Award: American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, by Joseph Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Honorable Mention: Taming Democracy, “The People”, the Founders and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution, Terry Bouton (Oxford University Press)
2007 Book Award: Samuel Adams, Father of the American Revolution, by Mark Puls (Palgrave MacMillan)
2006 Book Award: Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge, Thomas Fleming (Smithsonian Books Imprint/Harper Collins Publishers)
2005 Book Award: Washington's
Crossing, By David Hackett Fisher (Oxford University Press)
- Honorable Mention: Alexander Hamilton,
By Ron Chernow (Penguin Press)
2004 Book Award: A
Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic,
John Ferling (Oxford University Press)
- Honorable Mention: Gouverneur Morris: An
Independent Life, William Howard Adams (Yale University
Press)
- Honorable Mention: Benjamin Franklin: An
American Life, Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
- Honorable Mention: Thomas Jefferson,
Richard B. Bernstein (Oxford University Press)
2003 Book Award: Lafayette,
Harlow Giles Unger (John Wiley & Sons)
- Special Recognition for Juvenile Literature:The
signers, 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence,
Dennis Brindell Fradin (Walker & Co.)
2002 Book Award: John
Adams, David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
- Special Recognition for a Compilation:The
American Revolution: Writings from the
War of Independence, edited by John Rhodehamel (Library
of America)
2001 Book Award: Founding
Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation, Joseph Ellis (Knopf)
- Honorable Mention: The First American,
The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, H.W. Brands (Doubleday)
2000 Book Award: Forced
Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American
Revolution in Virginia,
Woody Holton (University of North Carolina Press)
- Special Recognition for Archaeology: The
Great Warpath: British Military Sites from Albany to Crown Point,
David Starbuck (University Press of New England)
- Special Recognition for Juvenile Literature: The
World Turned Upside Down: George Washington and the Battle
of Yorktown, Richard Ferrie (Holiday House)
1999 Book Award: In Irons: Britain's
Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy, Richard
Buel, Jr. (Yale Press)
- Honorable Mention: A Devil of a Whipping:
The Battle of Cowpens, Lawrence Babits (University of North
Carolina Press)
1998 Book Award: Saratoga: Turning
Point of America's Revolutionary War, Richard M. Ketchum
(Henry Holt)
- Special Recognition for a Companion Volume: Liberty!
The American Revolution, Thomas Fleming, companion
to the PBS series of the same name (Viking Penguin)
- Special Recognition to a Compilation: George
Washington: Writings, Edited by John Rhodehamel (Literary
Classics of the US).
- Special Recognition for Juvenile Literature: Betsy
Ross: Patriot of Philadelphia, Judith St. George (Books
for Young Readers, Henry Holt)
1997 Book Award: Original Meanings:
Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution,
Jack N. Rakove (Knopf).
- Honorable Mention: Benjamin Lincoln and
the American Revolution, David B. Mattern (University of
South Carolina Press).
- Special Recognition for Juvenile Literature: A
Young Patriot, The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy,
Jim Murphy (Clarion Books).
1996 Book Award: Tom Paine: A
Political Life, John Keane (Little Brown)
1995 Book Award: The
Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome and the American Enlightenment,
Carl J. Richard (Harvard University Press)
- Special Recognition for its unique contribution to the study
of American History: The American Revolution
Documentary: American Spirit, Birth of the Republic, Conflict
Ignites, produced by Greystone Communications and shown
on Arts & Entertainment Network.
1994 Book Award: To Make a Nation:
The Rediscovery of American Federalism,
Samuel H. Beer (Harvard University Press).
- Honorable Mention: George Clinton: Yeoman
Politician of the New Republic, John P. Kaminski (Madison
House) and
The Age of Federalism, Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick (Oxford
University Press)
- Special Recognition for its unique contribution to the study
of American history: Money of the American
Colonies and Confederation: A Numismatic, Economic and Historical
Correlation, Philip L. Mossman (The American Numismatic
Society).
1993 Book Award: The Bill of
Rights and the States and the companion piece: The
Constitution and the States, edited by
Patrick T. Conley and John P. Kaminski (Madison House)
1992 Book Award: The
Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon S. Wood (Knopf)
- Special Recognition for a Museum Catalogue: Ralph
Earl: The Face of the Young Republic, Elizabeth M. Kornhauser
(Yale University Press)
1991 Book Award: Benedict
Arnold, Patriot and Traitor, Willard Sterne Randall (William
Morrow)
1990 Book Award: Major
General Adam Stephen and the Cause of American Liberty, Harry
M. Ward (University of Virginia Press)
- Honorable Mention: Chaining the Hudson,
the Fight for the River in the American Revolution, Lincoln
Diamant
(Carol Publishing Group)
- Special Recognition for a Museum Catalogue: The
First Federal Congress 1789-1791, Margaret S.C. Christman
(Smithsonian Institute Press)
1989 Book Award: Inventing the
People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in
England and America, Edmund S. Morgan
(W.W. Norton)
- Charles Scott and the 'Spirit of '76',
Harry M. Ward (University Press of Virginia).
- Special Recognition for a Museum Catalogue: Paul Revere - Artisan,
Businessman, and Patriot: The Man Behind
the Myth, The Paul Revere Memorial Association (Published
by the Association)
1988 Book Award: The
Forging of the Union: 1781-1789, Richard B. Morris (Harper
& Row)
- Honorable Mention: Arms, Country and Class: The
Philadelphia Militia and the 'Lower Sort' During the American
Revolution, Steven Rosswurm (Rutgers University Press)
1987 Book Award:
Franklin of Philadelphia, Esmond Wright (Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press)
- Honorable Mention: A Son of Thunder: Patrick
Henry and the American Republic, Henry Mayer (Franklin
Watts)
1983-1986 No award given
1982 Book Award: The
Glorious Cause, Robert Middlekauff (Oxford University Press)
1981 Book Award: Jefferson
and His Time, Dumas Malone (Little, Brown)
1980 Book Award: A
Revolutionary People at War, Charles Royster (University
of North Carolina Press)
1979 Book Award: Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography, Forest McDonald (W.W. Norton)
1978 Book Award: Inventing
America - Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, Gary Wills
(Doubleday)
1977 Book Award: The
Empire of Reason, Henry Steele Commager (Doubleday)
1976 Book Award: Atlas
of Early American History, The Revolutionary Era, Lester
J. Capon, et al., eds. (Princeton
University Press)
- Honorable Mention: In Defense of the Public
Liberty, Samuel B. Griffith (Doubleday)
1975 Book Award: Origins
of the American Revolution, 1759-1766 and Growth
of the American Revolution, 1766-1775,
Bernard Knollenberg (Free Press)
1974 Book Award: Political
Parties Before the Constitution, Jackson Turner Main (University
of North Carolina Press)
1973 Book Award: George
Washignton, 4 vols., James Thomas Flexner (Little Brown)
- Honorable Mention: From Resistance to Revolution,
Pauline Maier (Knopf)
- Honorable Mention: The National Anthem,
a film by Saxton Graphics.
1972 Book Award: The
Boston Massacre, Hiller B. Zobel (W.W. Norton)
The award is presented each April to a book published during the
previous year. To submit a book for consideration,
mail two copies to:
Book Award Committee Sons of the Revolution in the State
of New York 54 Pearl Street New York NY 10004
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