Presented by
The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association

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 in Williamsburg, VA, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

2006
J. Mark Souther. New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 2006.

2005
Rebecca J. Scott. Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.

2004
Kastor, Dr. Peter J., The Nation’s Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America., published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT and London.

2003
Sacher, John M. A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824-1861, Louisiana State University Press, 2003.

2002
Ekberg, Carl J. François Vallé and His World: Upper Louisiana Before Lewis and Clark, University of Missouri Press, 2002.

2001
Rodrigue, John C. Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

2000
Powell, Lawrence N. Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

1999
Din, Gilbert C. Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 1763-1803. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999.

1998
Ekberg, Carl. French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times. Urbana: Illinois University Press, 1998.

1997
Hanger, Kimberly. Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

1996
Tyler, Pamela. Silk Stockings and Ballot Boxes: Women and Politics in New Orleans, 1920-1963. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

1995
Fairclough, Adam. Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.

1994
Schafer, Judith Kelleher. Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994.

1993
Rogers, Kim Lacy. Righteous Lives: Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement. New York: New York University Press, 1993.

1992
Malone, Ann Patton. Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Conrad, Glenn R. "Administration of the Illinois Country: The French Debate."

1991
Hair, William Ivy. The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991.
Usner, Daniel H., Jr. "`Fragments of This Erratic Race': American Indians in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans."

1990
Kurtz, Michael L., and Morgan D. Peoples. Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.
Donald S. Frazier. "Texans on the Teche: The Texas Brigade at the Battles of Bisland and Irish Bend, April 12-14, 1863."

1989
Estaville, Lawrence E., Jr. Confederate Neckties: Louisiana Railroads in the Civil War. Ruston: McGinty Publications, 1989.
Hanger, Kimberly S. "A Privilege and Honor to Serve: The Free Black Militia of Spanish New Orleans."

1988
Din, Gilbert C. The Canary Islanders of Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
Baker, Vaughan B. "Cherchez les femmes: Some Glimpses of Women in Early Eighteenth-Century Louisiana."

1987
Jones, Terry L. Lee's Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1987.
Heitmann, John A. "Getting Places in a Hurry: The Development of Aviation in Long-Era South Louisiana."

1986
Melville, Annabelle M. Louis William DuBourg: Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, Bishop of Montauban, and Archbishop of Besancon, 1766-1833. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1986.
Arnesen, Eric. "To Rule or Ruin: New Orleans Dock Workers' Struggle for Control, 1902-1903."

1985
Haas, Edward F. "Men of Stability and Influence: The Regular Democrats of New Orleans."

1984
Cutrer, Thomas W. Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935-1942. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984.
Berchtold, Raimund. "The Decline of German Ethnicity in New Orleans, 1880-1930."

1983
Bush, Robert. Grace King: A Southern Destiny. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
Jones, Terry L. "Wharf-Rats, Cutthroats and Thieves: The Louisiana Tigers, 1861-1862."

1982
Dawson, Joseph G., III. Army Generals and Reconstruction: Louisiana, 1862-1877. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
Kurtz, Michael L. "Organized Crime in Louisiana History: Myth and Reality."

1981
Haas, Edward F. "John Fitzpatrick and Political Continuity in New Orleans, 1886-1899." Louisiana History 22 (Winter 1981): 7-29.
Banta, Brady M. "Petroleum, Pipelines, and Politics: The Pine Island Situation."

1980
Becnel, Thomas. Labor, Church, and the Sugar Establishment in Louisiana, 1887-1976. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

1979
No prizes awarded

1978
McCrary, Peyton. Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: The Louisiana Experiment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Brasseaux, Carl A. "Cajuns, Conscripts, and the Civil War."

1977
Higginbotham, Jay. Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711. Mobile: Museum of the City of Mobile, 1977.
Kondert, Reinhart. "Germans in Colonial Louisiana, The First Decade (1721-1732)."

1976
Moore, John Preston. Revolt in Louisiana: The Spanish Occupation, 1766-1770. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976.
Zink, Steven D. "The 1928 Presidential Election in Louisiana: Some Preliminary Considerations."

1975
Taylor, Joe Gray. Louisiana Reconstructed, 1862-1877. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975.

1974
Fischer, Roger A. The Segregation Struggle in Louisiana 1862-1877. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974.
Snyder, Robert E. "Huey Long and the Cotton Plan of 1931."