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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich	1990
Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England by Phyllis Mack	1992
Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 by Kathryn Kish Sklar	1995
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia by Kathleen M. Brown	honorable mention, 1996
Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700–1815 by Isabel V. Hull	1996
A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 by Alice L. Conklin	1997
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore	1998
Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898 by Ada Ferrer	1999
Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon by Elizabeth Thompson	2000
Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950 by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt	2000
Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791 by Clare Haru Crowston	2001
Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past by Patricia M. Pelley	2002
Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948 by Nancy P. Appelbaum	2003
Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China by Ruth Rogaski	2004
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai	2004
Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons by Lisa Forman Cody	2005
Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920 by Maureen Fitzgerald	2006
Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England by Sandy Bardsley	2006
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands by Juliana Barr	2007
Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South by Hannah Rosen	2009

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Awarded by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
The Berkshire Conference First Book Prize, which carries a $1000 award, is a prize for a first book in any field of history written by a woman who is normally resident in North America. Books need not focus on women's history
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