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

2011

Lake Douglas, Public Spaces, Private Gardens: A History of Designed Landscape in New Orleans
Louisiana State University Press, 2011

2010
Richard Campanella, Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828–1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2010

2009
Jennifer Spear. Race, Sex and Social Order in Early New Orleans
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

2008
Sophie Burton and F. Todd Smith. Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier
Texas A&M University Press, 2008.

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
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."