JWH Award: Daniel Tobin, From Nothing (Four Way)
Young Readers: Grace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
2017 Awards
(For Books Published in 2016)
JWH Award: Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites (Simon & Schuster)
Young Readers: M.T.Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead (Candlewick Press)
2016 Awards
(For Books Published in 2015)
JWH Award: Carla Kaplan, Miss Anne in Harlem: the White Women in Black Renaissance (Harper Perennial)
2015 Awards
(For Books Published in 2014)
JWH Award: B.A.Shapiro, The Art Forger (Algonquin)
Young Readers: Terry Farish, The Good Braider (Marshall Cavendish)
For Lifetime Achievement: Louis Gluck and Lois Lowry
2013 Awards
(For Books Published in 2012)
JWH Award: Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (Lookout/U.N. Carolina)
Young Readers: Kimberly Marcus, Exposed (Random House)
For Lifetime Achievement: in Historical Writing to David McCullough
2012 Awards
(For Books Published in 2011)
JWH Award: Lewis Hyde, Common as Air (Farrar, Strauss Giroux
Young Readers: Francisco X. Stork, The Last Summer of the Death Warriors (Arthur A. Levine)
Special Award for Lifetime Achievement: Robert Coles
2011 Awards
(For Books Published in 2010)
JWH Award: Nancy Rappaport, In Her Wake (Basic Books)
Young Readers: Jaqueline Davies, Lost (Marshall Cavendish)
2010 Awards
(For Books Published in 2009)
JWH Award: Dexter Filkins, The Forever War (Knopf)
Young Readers: Padma Venkatraman, Climbing the Stairs (G.P. Putnam)
2009 Awards
(For Books Published in 2008)
JWH Award: Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep (Riverhead)
Young Readers: Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic)
Recognition for Sustained Achievement: Jerome Kagan, What Is Emotion? History, Measures, and Meanings (Yale University Press)
2008 Awards
(For Books Published in 2007)
JWH Award: James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon & the Disastrous Rise of American Power (Houghton Mifflin)
Young Readers: M.T.Anderson, Octavian Nothing: Volume I, The Pox Party (Candlewick)
Arthur Walworth Special Award: Robert D. Richardson , William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism (Houghton Mifflin)
2007 Awards
(For Books Published in 2006)
JWH Award: Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Alfred A. Knopf)
Young Readers: Liza Ketchum, Where the Great Hawk Flies (Clarion Books)
Special Award: Alan Lightman, The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science and A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit (both Pantheon Books)
2006 Awards
(For Books Published in 2005)
JWH Award: Gordon S. Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (Penguin Press)
Young Readers: Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now (Random House)
Special Award: Jeffrey S. Cramer (Editor) Walden—A Fully Annotated Edition (Yale U. Press); W. Barksdale Maynard, Walden Pond, a History (Oxford U. Press)
2005 Awards
(For Books Published in 2004)
JWH Award: Brenda Wineapple, Hawthorne: A Life (Alfred A. Knopf)
Young Readers: Pat Lowery Collins, The Fattening Hut (Houghton Mifflin)
Special Award: Karl Haglund, Inventing the Charles River (MIT Press); Nancy S. Seasholes, Gaining Ground (MIT Press)
2004 Awards
(For Books Published in 2003)
JWH Award: Moying Li-Marcus, Beacon Hill (Northeastern U. Press)
Young Readers: Gordon Morrison, The Pond (Houghton Mifflin)
Special Award: Edward O. Wilson, Pheidole in the New World (Harvard U. Press)
2003 Awards
(For Books Published in 2003)
JWH Award: Nicholas Tawa, From Psalm to Symphony (Northeastern U. Press)
Young Readers: Ellen Wittlinger, Razzle (Simon & Schuster)
2002 Awards
(For Books Published in 2003)
BAC Award: Thomas H. O’Connor, Boston A to Z (Harvard U. Press)
Young Readers: Carole G. Vogel, Nature’s Fury (Scholastic)
Special Award: Glenn Stout & Richard Johnson: The Red Sox Century (Houghton Mifflin)
2001 Awards
(For Books Published in 2000)
BAC Award: Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls (Beacon Press)
Young Readers: Deborah Savage, Summer Hawk (Houghton Mifflin)
2000 Awards
(For Books Published in 1999)
BAC Award: Linda H. Davis,Badge of Courage (Houghton Mifflin)
1999 Awards
(For Books Published in 1998)
BAC Award: Anita Diamant, The Red Tent (Houghton Mifflin)
1998 Awards
(For Books Published in 1997)
BAC Award: Igor Lukas, Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler (Oxford U. Press)