1990 - In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
1991 - A Midwife’s Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1992 - The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
1993 - The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
1994 - None awarded
1995 - No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
1996 - William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor
1997 - Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
1998 - Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
1999 - Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
According to The Pulitzer Prize.