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| 1907 | Silas Weir Mitchell. Some Literary Reminiscences. |
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| 1908 | Basil Gildersleeve. Hellas and Hesperia. |
| 1909 | Charles W. Eliot. Conflict Between Individualism and Collectivism in a Democracy |
| 1910 | Thomas R. Lounsbury. The Early Literary Career of Robert Browning. |
| 1911 | William Henry Welch. Development of Medicine As a Science. |
| 1912 | None |
| 1913 | James Bryce. Ancient Democracy. |
| 1914 | Arthur Twining Hadley. Undercurrents in American Politics. |
| 1915 | William Howard Taft. The Presidency. |
| 1916 | Archibald Cary Coolidge. Origins of the Triple Alliance. |
| 1917 | John Henry Wigmore. Problems of Law. |
| 1918 | None |
| 1919 | None |
| 1920 | William Roscoe Thayer. The Art of Biography. |
| 1921 | None |
| 1922 | Thomas Nelson Page. Dante and His Influence. |
| 1923 | None |
| 1924 | John Huston Finley. The Making and Mission of America. |
| 1925 | James Thomson Shotwell. The Security of Nations. |
| 1926 | Alexander Frederick Whyte. Asia in the Twentieth Century. |
| 1927 | Alfred North Whitehead. Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect. |
| 1928 | Walter Lippmann. American Inquisitors. |
| 1929 | William E. Dodd. The Statecraft of Woodrow Wilson. |
| 1930 | Frederick Paul Keppel. The Foundation. |
| 1931 | Albert J. Nock. The Theory of Education in the United States. |
| 1932 | Lindsay Rogers. Crisis Government. |
| 1933 | T.S. Eliot. After Strange Gods. |
| 1934 | Henry Norris Russell. The Solar System and Its Origin. |
| 1935 | John Dewey. Liberalism and Social Action. |
| 1936 | Robert Millikan. Cosmic Rays. |
| 1937 | Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker. The Beginnings of American Civilization. |
| 1938 | Wolfgang Kohler. Dynamics in Psychology. |
| 1939 | Heinrich Bruning. The Changing Background of Democracy. |
| 1940 | Carl Lotus Becker. Modern Democracy. |
| 1941 | Reginald Aldworth Daly. The Floor of the Ocean. |
| 1942 | Irwin Panofsky. The Gothic Style. |
| 1943 | Gilbert Chinard. The Sage of Monticello. |
| 1944-48 | None |
| 1949 | W.H. Auden. The Enchafed Flood. |
| 1950 | Archibald Thomson Davison. Bach and Handel. |
| 1951 | Allan Nevins. The Statesmanship of the Civil War. |
| 1952 | James B. Conant. Education and Liberty. |
| 1953 | Dennis H. Robertson. Britain in the World Economy. |
| 1954 | Theodosius Dobzhansky. The Biological Basis of Human Freedom. |
| 1955 | George E. Mylonas. Ancient Mycenae. |
| 1956 | N.P. Mott. Atomic Structure and the Strength of Metals. |
| 1957 | S. Lane Faison. German Art in the Age of Bach. |
| 1958 | None |
| 1959 | B.F. Skinner. Education: A Technology of Behavior. |
| 1960 | Fred Hoyle. New Theories on the Origin of Stars and Elements. |
| 1961 | Northrop Frye. The Well-Tempered Critic. |
| 1962 | Leo Strauss. The City and The Man. |
| 1963 | Don K. Price. The Scientific Estate. |
| 1964 | John W. Milnor. Topology From the Differential Viewpoint. |
| 1965 | Marjorie Hope Nicholson. Pepys’ Diary and the New Science. |
| 1966 | John Wheeler-Bennett. The Crown, the Empire, and the Commonwealth. |
| 1967 | Chen Ning Yang. Symmetry Principles in Physics. |
| 1968 | R.W. Fleming. The University Now: Reflections of a President. |
| 1969 | James Willard Hurst. The Legitimacy of the Business Corporation. |
| 1970 | Charles Sterling. Studies in French 15th Century Painting. |
| 1971 | Jean Gottmann. The People and Their Territory: Reconsideration of a Basic Relationship. |
| 1972 | Sir John Summerson. Victorian Architecture in London. |
| 1973 | Robert Coles. (Title unavailable.) |
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| 1995 | Thomas P. Hughes. Metaphors Shaping Modern History: Creation, Mechanization, and Control. |
| 1996 | Johannes Fabian. Moments of Freedom: On Anthropology and Popular Culture |
| 1997 | James C. Scott. The State and People Who Move. |
| 1997 | Ian Hacking. Strange Voyagers: The Epidemic of Dissociative Fugue in France, 1886-1910. |
| 1997 | Barbara Stafford. Visual Analogy: Reviving the Art of Love. |
| 1998 | Nobel Peace Laureates Conference. |
| 1999 | Ira Katznelson. Southern Politics Revisited: Reflections on Representation, Partisanship, and Social Change in the Last Half-Century. |
| 1999 | Wole Soyinka. The Muse at War: African Expression and the Siege of Censors |
| 2000 | Maurice Kriegel. A History of Jewish Messianism in the Modern World. |
| 2001 | Dr. Charles Joyner.Meeting of the Waters: The Current of Southern Music |
| 2002 | Maurice Godelier. In and Out of Western Tradition: The delicate balance of Social Anthropology |
2004 |
Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University Life in the Universe
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2004 |
Richard Rorty, Stanford University The Priority of Imagination Over Reason Getting Rid of Appearance-Reality Distinction |
| 2005 | Stephen Muhall, Oxford University. The Conversation of Humanity Language, Philosophy and Sophistry: from Wittgenstein to Plato |
2005 |
Dan Segal, Pitzer College Modernity and the History Monopoly Social Evolutionary Thought and the Misrecognition of History |
| 2006 | T.J. Clark, Berkeley |
| 2007 | Natasha Trethewey, Emory University Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast Present |
| 2008 | Louis Menand, Harvard Academic Pickles The Problem of General Education |