Past Winners of the David J. Weber Book Prize

2022 A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community Natalia Molina  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022
2021 Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands  Paul Barba Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021
2020  Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement Jennifer Holland  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020
2019  These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912 Maurice Crandall Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019 
2018 Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American  Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018

2017

Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 

Julian Lim 

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017

2016

Three Roads to Magdalena: Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890-1990

David Wallace Adams

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016

2015

Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

Andrew J. Torget

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015

2014

Power Lines:Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest

Andrew Needham

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014

2013

Miera y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico

John L. Kessell

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013

2012

Chiricahua and Janos: Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680-1880

Lance R. Blyth

Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2012

2011

A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

 William deBuys

New York: Oxford University Press, 2011

2010

Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol

 Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010

2009

The Father of All: the de la Guerra Family: Power and Patriarchy in Mexican California

 Louise Pubols

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009

2008

The Comanche Empire

 Pekka Hämäläinen

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008

2007

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands

 Juliana Barr

Chapel Hill: University of North  Carolina Press, 2008

2006

Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West

 Ned Blackhawk

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006

2005

Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family

 Claudio Saunt

New York: Oxford University Press, 2005

2004

The River Has Never Divided Us: A Border History of La Junta de los Rios

 Jefferson Morgenthaler

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004

2003

Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward’s Life and Theory

 Virginia Kerns

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003

2002

Print the Legend: Photography and the American West

 Martha Sandweiss

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002

2001

A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell

 Donald Worster

New York: Oxford University Press, 2001

2000

At the judges’ discretion, no prize was awarded

1999

Salt Dreams: Land & Water in Low-Down California

 William deBuys; photographs by Joan Myers

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.