Presented by
The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association
2023
Sharon Ann Murphy, Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States
Chicago University Press
2022
Kathryn Olivarius, Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2021
K. Stephen Prince, The Ballad of Robert Charles Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900
UNC Press
2020
Jessica Marie Johnson, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
University of Pennsylvania Press
2019
Sophie White, Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press
2018
Walter C. Stern, Race and Education in New Orleans: Creating the Segregated City, 1764–1960
Louisiana State University Press
2017
Urmi Engineer Willoughby, Yellow Fever, Race and Ecology in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
Louisiana State University Press
2016
Rashauna Johnson, Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions
Cambridge University Press
2015
Eberhard L. Faber, Building the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America
Princeton University Press
2014
Michael A. Ross, The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
Oxford University Press
2013
Scott P. Marler, The Merchants’ Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South
Cambridge University Press
2012
Lawrence N. Powell, The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
Harvard University Press
2011
Lake Douglas, Public Spaces, Private Gardens: A History of Designed Landscape in New Orleans
Louisiana State University Press
2010
Richard Campanella, Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828–1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press
2009
Jennifer Spear, Race, Sex and Social Order in Early New Orleans
Johns Hopkins University Press
2008
Sophie Burton and F. Todd Smith, Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier
Texas A&M University Press
2007
Emily Clark, Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727–1834
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, by the University of North Carolina Press
2006
J. Mark Souther, New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City
Louisiana State University Press
2005
Rebecca J. Scott, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery
Harvard University Press
2004
Peter J. Kastor, The Nation’s Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America
Yale University Press
2003
John M. Sacher, A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824–1861
Louisiana State University Press
2002
Carl J. Ekberg, François Vallé and His World: Upper Louisiana Before Lewis and Clark
University of Missouri Press
2001
John C. Rodrigue, Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862–1880
Louisiana State University Press
2000
Lawrence N. Powell, Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke’s Louisiana
University of North Carolina Press
1999
Gilbert C. Din, Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 1763–1803
Texas A&M University Press
1998
Carl J. Ekberg, French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times
Illinois University Press
1997
Kimberly Hanger, Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803
Duke University Press
1996
Pamela Tyler, Silk Stockings and Ballot Boxes: Women and Politics in New Orleans, 1920–1963
University of Georgia Press
1995
Adam Fairclough, Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915–1972
University of Georgia Press
1994
Judith Kelleher Schafer, Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana
Louisiana State University Press
1993
Kim Lacy Rogers, Righteous Lives: Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement
New York University Press
1992
Ann Patton Malone, Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
University of North Carolina Press
Glenn R. Conrad, "Administration of the Illinois Country: The French Debate"
1991
William Ivy Hair, The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long
Louisiana State University Press
Daniel H. Usner Jr., “‘Fragments of This Erratic Race’: American Indians in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans”
1990
Michael L. Kurtz, and Morgan D. Peoples, Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics
Louisiana State University Press
Donald S. Frazier, "Texans on the Teche: The Texas Brigade at the Battles of Bisland and Irish Bend, April 12–14, 1863"
1989
Lawrence E. Estaville Jr., Confederate Neckties: Louisiana Railroads in the Civil War
McGinty Publications
Kimberly S. Hanger, "A Privilege and Honor to Serve: The Free Black Militia of Spanish New Orleans"
1988
Gilbert C. Din, The Canary Islanders of Louisiana
Louisiana State University Press
Vaughan B. Baker, "Cherchez les femmes: Some Glimpses of Women in Early Eighteenth-Century Louisiana"
1987
Terry L. Jones, Lee’s Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia
Louisiana State University
John A. Heitmann, "Getting Places in a Hurry: The Development of Aviation in Long-Era South Louisiana"
1986
Annabelle M. Melville, Louis William DuBourg: Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, Bishop of Montauban, and Archbishop of Besancon, 1766–1833
Loyola University Press
Eric Arnesen, "To Rule or Ruin: New Orleans Dock Workers' Struggle for Control, 1902–1903"
1985
Edward F. Haas, "Men of Stability and Influence: The Regular Democrats of New Orleans"
1984
Thomas W. Cutrer, Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935–1942
Louisiana State University Press
Raimund Berchtold, "The Decline of German Ethnicity in New Orleans, 1880–1930"
1983
Robert Bush, Grace King: A Southern Destiny
Louisiana State University Press
Terry L. Jones, "Wharf-Rats, Cutthroats and Thieves: The Louisiana Tigers, 1861–1862"
1982
Joseph G. Dawson III, Army Generals and Reconstruction: Louisiana, 1862–1877
Louisiana State University Press
Michael L. Kurtz, "Organized Crime in Louisiana History: Myth and Reality"
1981
Edward F. Haas, "John Fitzpatrick and Political Continuity in New Orleans, 1886–1899"
Brady M. Banta, "Petroleum, Pipelines, and Politics: The Pine Island Situation"
1980
Thomas Becnel, Labor, Church, and the Sugar Establishment in Louisiana, 1887–1976
Louisiana State University Press
1979
No prizes awarded
1978
Peyton McCrary, Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: The Louisiana Experiment
Princeton University Press
Carl A. Brasseaux, "Cajuns, Conscripts, and the Civil War"
1977
Jay Higginbotham, Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702–1711
Museum of the City of Mobile
Reinhart Kondert, "Germans in Colonial Louisiana, The First Decade (1721–1732)"
1976
Moore, John Preston, Revolt in Louisiana: The Spanish Occupation, 1766–1770
Louisiana State University Press
Steven D. Zink, "The 1928 Presidential Election in Louisiana: Some Preliminary Considerations"
1975
Joe Gray Taylor, Louisiana Reconstructed, 1862–1877
Louisiana State University Press
1974
Roger A. Fischer, The Segregation Struggle in Louisiana 1862–1877
University of Illinois Press
Robert E. Snyder, "Huey Long and the Cotton Plan of 1931"