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AAS Members Who Have Won
A National Book Award

• 1950 - Ralph L. Rusk, Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1953 - Bernard A. De Voto, The Course of Empire
• 1954 - Bruce Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox
• 1966 - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days
• 1967 - Peter Gay, The Enlightenment, Vol. 1: An Interpretation of the Rise of Modern Paganism
• 1969 - Winthrop D. Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
• 1972 - Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863-1864 and The Organized War to Victory
• 1972 - Martin E. Marty, Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America
• 1973 - S.E. Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People
• 1975 - Bernard Bailyn, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
• 1976 - David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
• 1977 - Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird
• 1978 - David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
• 1979 - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times
• 1979 - Richard Beale Davis, Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763
• 1981 - Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long, The Aftermath of Slavery
• 1982 - David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback
• 1993 - Gore Vidal, United States: Essays, 1952-1992
• 1997 - Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
• 2000 - Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
• 2008 - Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

The National Book Award has been awarded annually since 1950. The National Book Foundation sponsors the awards.