John Harner for Profiting from the Peak: Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs, (University Press of Colorado, 2021) triumphs as an accessibly written, wonderfully illustrated historical geography of a distinctive American place. Dedicated to Peirce Lewis, the book explores how Colorado Springs profited from its singular physical setting as well as its highly distinctive cultural evolution.

Adam Mandelman for The Place With No Edge: An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana State University Press

Robert Lemon for The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City, University of Illinois Press

David Havlick for Bombs Away: Militarization, Conservation, and Ecological Restoration, University of Chicago Press

Stephen Hornsby for Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps, University of Chicago Press

Terence Young for Heading Out: A HIstory of American Camping, Cornell University Press

Lisa Benton-Short for The National Mall: No Ordinary Public Space, University of Toronto Press

Andrew Sluyter, Case Watkins, James P. Chaney and Annie M. Gibson for Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the Eighteenth Century, Louisiana State University Press

Randall K. Wilson for America’s Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield

Anne Kelly Knowles, Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868, University of Chicago Press

James “Pete” Shortridge for Kansas City and How it Grew, 1822-2011, University Press of Kansas

Jan Nijman for Miami: Mistress of the Americas, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Paul F. Starrs and Peter Goin for Field Guide to California Agriculture, University of California Press.

Patrick McGreevy for Stairway to Empire: Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the Shaping of America, State University Press of New York (Albany).

Blake Gumprecht for The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Arthur J. Krim for Route 66: Iconography of an American Highway, George Thompson Publishers.

Craig Colten for An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature, Louisiana State University Press.

Donald W. Meinig for Global America, 1915-2000. volume four of The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Yale University Press

Peirce F. Lewis for New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape, Center for American Places in association with University of Virginia Press.

Daniel D. Arreola for Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province, University of Texas Press.

John A. Jakle for City Lights: Illuminating the American Night, Johns Hopkins University Press.

David B. Lowenthal for George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation, University of Washington Press.

Blake Gumprecht for The American College Town. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Charles S. Aiken for The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Kenneth E. Foote for Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy, University of Texas Press.

Richard Francaviglia for Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image-Building in Small Town America, University of Iowa Press.

David J. Wishart for An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians, University of Nebraska Press.

Paul Groth for Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in The United States, University of California Press.

John B. Wright for Rocky Mountain Divide: Selling and Saving the West, University of Texas Press

Wilbur Zelinsky for Cultural Geography of the United States (Revised & Enlarged Edition), Prentice-Hall Publishers.

John Fraser Hart for The Land That Feeds Us, W.W. Norton Publishers.

David Buisseret for Historic Illinois from the Air, University of Chicago Press

2000 James R. Shortridge, Our Town on the Plains: J.J. Pennell’s Photographs of Junction City, Kansas 1893-1922 University of Kansas Press

James Paul Allen & Eugene James Turner for We the People: An Atlas of America’s Ethnic Diversity, Macmillan Press

Gary B. Peterson & Lowell C. Bennion for Sampete Scenes: A Guide to Utah’s Heart, Basin/Plateau Press.

John R. Borchert for America’s Northern Heartland, University of Minnesota Press

John A. Alwin for Between the Mountains: A Portrait of Eastern Washington, Northwest Panorama Publishing.

John C. Hudson, Plains Country Towns, University of Minnesota Press.