William J. Petersen & Edgar R. Harlan Lifetime Achievement Award
- Jerry Enzler
- Dubuque, Iowa
Director of the Dubuque County Historical Society for 40 Years
Loren Horton Community History Award
- Van Buren County Historic Preservation Commission
- Keosauqua, Iowa
Forgotten Villages Project, which marked extinct and renamed villages in the county with custom signs telling the stories of the founders and their towns
- North of Grand Neighborhood Association in Des Moines (Certificate of Recognition)
- Des Moines, Iowa
Nomination of Washington and Elizabeth Miller Tract/Center-Soll Community Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places
- Iowa Gold Star Military Museum (Certificate of Recognition)
- Johnston, Iowa
Exhibition of World War I: The War to End All Wars
George Mills & Louise Noun Popular History Award
- Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen
- Glendale, Wisconsin and Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Real Herbert Hoover - Iowa History Journal, May-October 2016
- Jerry Harrington (Honorable Mention)
- Iowa City, Iowa
First in the Nation: A History of the Iowa Caucuses - Iowa History Journal, January-February 2016
- Don Doxsie (Honorable Mention)
- Davenport, Iowa
Act of Valor - Iowa History Journal , November-December 2016
Mildred Throne & Charles Aldrich Academic History Award
- Omar Valerio-Jiménez
- San Antonio, Texas
Racializing Mexican Immigrants in Iowa's Early Mexican Communities - The Annals of Iowa, Winter 2016
- Patrick J. Jung (Honorable Mention)
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lonely Sentinel: A Military History of Fort Madison, 1808-1813 - The Annals of Iowa, Summer 2016
Benjamin F. Shambaugh Published Book Award
- Thomas R. Baker
- Muscatine, Iowa
The Sacred Cause of Union: Iowa in the Civil War
- Lena M. Hill and Michael D. Hill (Certificate of Merit)
- Iowa City, Iowa
Invisible Hawkeyes: African Americans at the University during the Long Civil Rights Era
- Timothy R. Mahoney (Certificate of Merit)
- Lincoln, Nebraska
From Hometown to Battlefield in the Civil War Era: Middle Class Life in Midwest America
- Lyell D. Henry, Jr. (Finalist)
- Iowa City
The Jefferson Highway: Blazing the Way from Winnipeg to New Orleans
- Nancy Berlage (Finalist)
- San Marcos, Texas
Farmers Helping Farmers: The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914-1935
Judith A. McClure Award
- Daniel and Margaret Wild House (2016)
- Cedar Falls
Adrian D. Anderson Award
- La Poste - Perry Post Office (2015)
- Perry
- Blair House (2016)
- Washington
Margaret Keyes Award
- 5th Street Lofts (Sieg Iron Company) (2015)
- Davenport
- St. Mary’s Church (2016)
- Remsen
William J. Wagner Award
- American Republic Insurance Company (2016)
- Des Moines
