| Year | Winner | Affiliation | Title |
| 2010 | Margaret Washington | Cornell University | Sojourner Truth's America |
| 2011 | Bettye Collier-Thomas | Temple University | Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion |
| 2012 | | University of Pennsylvania Law School | Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution |
| 2013 | Sydney Nathans | Duke University | To Free a Family; The Journey of Mary Walker |
| 2014 | Estelle B. Freedman | Stanford University | Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation |
| 2015 | Karsonya Wise Whitehead | Loyola University Maryland | Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis |
| 2016 | | University of Virginia | Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South |
| 2017 | | Michigan State University | Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy |
| 2018 | Deirdre Cooper Owens | Queens College, CUNY | Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology |
| 2019 | Keisha N. Blain | University of Pittsburgh | Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom |
| 2020 | Shennette Garrett-Scott | University of Mississippi | Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal |
| 2021 | Thavolia Glymph | Duke University | The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation |
| 2022 | Tiya Miles | Harvard University | All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake |
| 2023 | Tomiko Brown-Nagin | Harvard University | Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality |
| 2024 | Barbara D. Savage | University of Pennsylvania | Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar |
| 2025 | Kellie Carter Jackson | Wellesley College | We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance |