Previous Winners
2016 Dr. Cheryl Knott
Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow
University of Massachusetts Press, 2015
2013 Christine Pawley
Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010
2010 David Allan, University of St. Andrews
A Nation of Readers: The Lending Library in Georgian England
London: British Library, 2008
2007 Carl Ostrowski
Books, Maps, and Politics: a Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004
2004 Louise Robbins
The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press