The James A. Rawley Prize is awarded by the American Historical Association (AHA) for the best book in Atlantic history.The prize is given in memory of James A. Rawley, professor of history emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.[1]
| Year | Winner AHA Rawley Prize | Title of AHA Rawley Prize |
| 2023 | Adriana Chira | Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba’s Plantations (Cambridge Univ. Press) |
| 2022 | Tessa Murphy | The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press) |
| 2021 | Allison Margaret Bigelow | Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World (Omohundro Inst. of Early American History and Culture and the Univ. of North Carolina Press) |
| 2020 | Sophie White | Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Omohundro Inst. of Early American History and Culture and the Univ. of North Carolina Press) |
| 2019 | Elena A. Schneider | The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Univ. of North Carolina Press) |
| 2018 | Padraic Scanlan | Freedom's Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution (Yale Univ. Press) |
| 2017 | David Wheat | Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570–1640 (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Univ. of North Carolina Press) |
| 2016 | Tamar Herzog | Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas (Harvard Univ. Press) |
| 2015 | Ada Ferrer | Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge Univ. Press) |
| 2015 | Gregory O'Malley | Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619–1807 (Univ. of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Inst. of Early American History and Culture) |
| 2014 | Aaron Spencer Fogleman | Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenth-Century Couple's Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World (Univ. of North Carolina Press) |
| 2013 | W. Jeffrey Bolster | The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail (Harvard Univ. Press) |
| 2012 | Rebecca J. Scott and Jean Hebrard | Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation (Harvard Univ. Press) |
| 2011 | David Eltis and David Richardson | Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale Univ. Press) |
| 2011 | James Sweet, Domingos Álvares | African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (Univ. of North Carolina Press) |
| 2010 | Michael Jarvis | In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680–1683 (Univ. of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Inst. of Early American History and Culture) |
| 2009 | Maria Elena Martinez | Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico (Stanford Univ. Press) |
| 2008 | Marcus Rediker | The Slave Ship: A Human History (Viking Press) |
| 2007 | Sabine MacCormack | On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru (Princeton Univ. Press) |
| 2006 | Christopher Brown | Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (Univ. of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Inst. of Early American History and Culture) |
| 2005 | Londa Schiebinger | Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (Harvard Univ. Press) |
| 2004 | Laurent Dubois | A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804 (Univ. of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Inst. of Early American History and Culture) |
| 2003 | John Pagan | Anne Othwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia (Oxford Univ. Press) |
| 2002 | Patricia Seed | American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches (Univ. of Minnesota Press) |
| 2001 | Jorge Canizares-Esguerra | How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford Univ. Press) |
| 2000 | Karen Kupperman | Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America (Cornell Univ. Press) |
| 1999 | Jeremy Adelman | Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of Atlantic World (Stanford Univ. Press) |