1979
Robert B. Mackay: “The Charles Street Jail: Hegemony of a Design.” (David Hall)
1978
Clarisse Poirier: “The Pemberton Mills, 1852-1938: A Case Study of the Industrial and Labor History of Lawrence, MA.” (John Armstrong)
Claudia Bushman: “Harriet Hanson Robinson and her Family: A Chronicle of Nineteenth Century New England Life.” (David Hall)
Mary Hornbeck: “The Development of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.” (William Vance)
1977
Laurie Crumpacker: “The Journals of Esther Burr.” (Norman Pettit)
C.T. Wright: “The Development of Education for Blacks in Georgia.” (Robert Bushman)
Mary Ellen Hayward: “Dwight A. W. Tryon: An American Landscape Painter.” (David Hall)
Eugenia Kaledin: “The Education of Clover Adams.” (John Brinnin)
1976
Susan Geib: “Changing Works: Agriculture and Industrial Preconditions in Brookfield MA 1785-1820.” (Richard Bushman)
Richard Shiels: “The Evangelical Persuasion: Clerical Rhetoric in Connecticut’s Second Great Awakening 1790-1820.” (David Hall)
1975
Richard Lebeaux: “‘Young Man Thoreau’: A Psychological Study of Henry David Thoreau’s Pre-Walden Life and Writings.” (Norman Pettit)
1974
John Garner: “The Model Company Town in New England: Hopedale and the New Town Tradition.” (David Hall)
1973
Margaret Floyd: “A Terra-Cotta Cornerstone for Copley Square: An Assessment of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Sturgis and Brigham (1879-1876) in the Context of its English Technological and Stylistic Origins.” (James O’Gorman)
Mary Walsh: “Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession: A Case Study of Boston Women Physicians 1835-1973.” (Richard Bushman)
1972
W. Anthony Gangarelli: “The Resistance Spokesmen: Opponents of the Red Scare 1919-1921.” (John Armstrong)