Past Winners of the Robert L. Hampel Outstanding Book Award
2025
Charise L. Cheney, Blacks Agains Brown: The Intra-racial Struggle Over Segregated Schools in Topeka, Kansas (University of North Carolina Press)
2024
Kim Tolley, Vaccine Wars: The Two Hundred Year Fight for School Vaccinations (Johns Hopkins University Press)
2023
Hilary Falb Kalisman, Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Princeton University Press)
2022
Jarvis Givens, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (Harvard University Press)
2021
2021, Eddie R. Cole, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom (Princeton University Press)
2020
Kabria Baumgartner, In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women & Educational Activism in Antebellum America (New York University Press)
2019
Stefan M. Bradley, Upending the Ivory Tower (NYU Press)
2018
Christina Snyder, Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson (Oxford University Press)
2017
Ansley Erickson, Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits (University of Chicago Press)
2016
Adam Laats, The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education (Harvard University Press)
2015
Karen Rader and Victoria Cain, Life On Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science & Natural History in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press)
2014
William Reese, Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History (University of Wisconsin Press)
2013
Geoff K. Ward, The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy & Juvenile Justice (University of Chicago Press)
2012
Nancy Beadie, Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early Republic (Cambridge University Press)
2011
Ronald Butchart, Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876 (University of North Carolina Press)
2010
Hilary Moss, Schooling Citizens: The Struggle for African-American Education in Antebellum America (University of Chicago Press)
2009
A.J. Angulo, William Barton Rogers and the Idea of MIT (Johns Hopkins University Press)
2008
Adam Fairclough, A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South (Harvard University Press)
2007
Catherine Kerrison, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
(Cornell University Press)
2006
Mona Siegel, The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940
(Cambridge University Press)
2005
Jack Dougherty, More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black Schools in Milwaukee
(University of North Carolina Press)
2004
Jane Hunter, How Young Ladies Became Girls (Yale University Press)
2003
Jon Zimmerman, Whose History? Culture Wars in the Public Schools (Harvard University Press)
2002
Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., Brown, not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston (Texas A&M Press)
2001
Amy McCandless, The Past in the Present: Higher Education in the South (University of Alabama Press)
1999
John Willinsky, Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End (University of Minnesota Press)
1997
Lawrence Levine, The Opening of the American Mind (Beacon Press)
1995
Jeffrey Mirel, The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-81 (University of Michigan Press)
1993
Carl F. Kaestle, Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880 (Yale University Press)
1991
JoBurr Margadant, Madame Le Professeur: Women Educators in the Third Republic (Princeton University Press)
1989
David Labaree, The Making of an American High School (Yale University Press)
1987
Ellen Schrecker, No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism in the Universities (Oxford University Press)