James A. Rawley Prize (AHA)
The James A. Rawley Prize is awarded by the American Historical Association 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.
| Year | Winner AHA Rawley Prize | Title of AHA Rawley Prize |
| 2017 | David Wheat | Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570–1640 |
| 2016 | Tamar Herzog | Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas |
| 2015 | Ada Ferrer | Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution |
| 2015 | Gregory O'Malley | Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619–1807 |
| 2014 | Aaron Spencer Fogleman | Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenth-Century Couple's Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World |
| 2013 | W. Jeffrey Bolster | The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail |
| 2012 | Rebecca J. Scott and Jean Hebrard | Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation |
| 2011 | David Eltis and David Richardson | Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade |
| 2011 | James Sweet, Domingos Álvares | African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World |
| 2010 | Michael Jarvis | In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680–1683 |
| 2009 | Maria Elena Martinez | Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico |
| 2008 | Marcus Rediker | The Slave Ship: A Human History |
| 2007 | Sabine MacCormack | On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru |
| 2006 | Christopher Brown | Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism |
| 2005 | Londa Schiebinger | Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World |
| 2004 | Laurent Dubois | A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804 |
| 2003 | John Pagan | Anne Othwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia |
| 2002 | Patricia Seed | American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches |
| 2001 | Jorge Canizares-Esguerra | How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World |
| 2000 | Karen Kupperman | Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America |
| 1999 | Jeremy Adelman | Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of Atlantic World |