Whitehill Prize Past Winners

2025 MARY BABSON FUHRER, “ACCOMPANYING THE SICK POOR IN THE ‘NEW’ CITY OF BOSTON” Appeared in NEQ 98.3 (September 2025)

2024 JOHN J. GARCIA, “SENT ‘WITHOUT ORDRE’: JOHN DUNTON, THE LONDON BOOK TRADE, AND THE PROVINCIALIZED READER OF LATE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND”
Appeared in NEQ 97.3 (September 2024)

2021 ERIK NORDBYE, “THE RIGHTS OF GOD’S STEWARDS: PROPERTY, CONSCIENCE, AND THE GREAT AWAKENING IN CANTERBURY, CONNECTICUT
Appeared in NEQ 95:4 (December 2022)

2020 CORNELIA H. DAYTON, “LOST YEARS RECOVERED: JOHN PETERS AND PHILLIS WHEATLEY PETERS IN MIDDLETON
Appeared in NEQ 94:3 (September 2021)

2017 NEAL DUGRE, “REPAIRING THE BREACH: PURITAN EXPANSION, COMMONWEALTH FORMATION, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE UNITED COLONIES OF NEW ENGLAND, 1630–1643”
Appeared in NEQ 91:3 (September 2018)

2016 PETER W. WALKER, “THE BISHOP CONTROVERSY, THE IMPERIAL CRISIS, AND RELIGIOUS RADICALISM IN NEW ENGLAND, 1763-74″
Appeared in NEQ 90:3 (September 2017)

2014 DOUGLAS L. WINIARSKI, “LYDIA PROUST’S DREADFULLEST THOUGHT”
Appeared in NEQ 88:3 (September 2015)

2013 IAN SAXINE, “THE PERFORMANCE OF PEACE: INDIANS, SPECULATORS, AND THE POLITICS OF PROPERTY IN MAINE, 1735–1737”
Appeared in NEQ 87:3 (September 2014)

2012 ABRAM VAN ENGEN, “ORIGINS AND LAST FAREWELLS: BIBLE WARS, MISSING TEXT, AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN HISTORY”
Appeared in NEQ 86:4 (December 2013)

2010 LINDSAY SCHAKENBACH, “FROM DISCONTENTED BOSTONIANS TO PATRIOTIC INDUSTRIALISTS: THE BOSTON ASSOCIATES AND THE TRANSCONTINENTAL TREATY, 1790–1825”
Appeared in NEQ 84:3 (September 2011)

2008 ANDREW M. WEHRMAN, “THE SIEGE OF “CASTLE POX”: A MEDICAL REVOLUTION IN MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS, 1764–1777″
Appeared in NEQ 82:3 (September 2009)

2006 JOHNATHAN BEECHER FIELD, “A KEY FOR THE GATE: ROGER WILLIAMS, PARLIAMENT, AND PROVIDENCE”
Appeared in NEQ 80:3 (September 2007)

2002 S. D. SMITH, “GEDNEY CLARKE OF SALEM AND BARBADOS: TRANSATLANTIC SUPER-MERCHANT”
Appeared in NEQ 76:4 (December 2003)

2001 MATTHEW MASON, “‘NOTHING IS BETTER CALCULATED TO EXCITE DIVISIONS’: FEDERALIST AGITATION AGAINST SLAVE REPRESENTATION DURING THE WAR OF 1812”
Appeared in NEQ 75:4 (December 2002)

2000 JAMES E. MCWILLIAMS, “WORK, FAMILY, AND ECONOMIC IMPROVEMENT IN LATE- SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MASSACHUSETTS BAY: THE CASE OF JOSHUA BUFFUM”
Appeared in NEQ 74:3 (September 2001)

1997 MARLA R. MILLER, “‘MY PART ALONE’: THE WORLD OF REBECCA DICKINSON, 1787– 1802”
Appeared in NEQ 71:3 (September 1998)

1996 FRANCIS J. BREMER, “THE HERITAGE OF JOHN WINTHROP: RELIGION ALONG THE STOUR VALLEY, 1548–1630”
Appeared in NEQ 70:4 (December 1997)

1995 SUSAN M. OUELLETTE, “DIVINE PROVIDENCE AND COLLECTIVE ENDEAVOR: SHEEP PRODUCTION IN EARLY
MASSACHUSETTS”
Appeared in NEQ 69:3 (September 1996)

1994 RICHARD GODBEER, “‘LOVE RAPTURES’: MARITAL, ROMANTIC, AND EROTIC IMAGES OF JESUS CHRIST IN PURITAN
NEW ENGLAND, 1670–1730″
Appeared in NEQ 68:3 (September 1995)

1993 DAVID C. BROWN, “THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM: EXCOMMUNICATION IN COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS”
Appeared in NEQ 67:4 (December 1994)

1991 FREDERICK DALZELL, “PRUDENCE AND THE GOLDEN EGG: ESTABLISHING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND”
Appeared in NEQ 65:3 (September 1992)