Genre
Historical
Every Historical category, ceremony by ceremony.
| Year | Category | Winner | Work | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Best Historical Album | Patrick Milligan, Joni Mitchell, Bernie Grundman | Joni Mitchell Archives - Volume 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) | All Nominees |
| 2025 | Best Historical Album | Meagan Hennessey, Richard Martin | Centennial | All Nominees |
| 2024 | Best Historical Album | Robert Gordon, Deanie Parker, Cheryl Pawelski, Michael W. Smith, Mason D. Williams, Michael Graves | Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos | All Nominees |
| 2023 | Best Historical Album | Cheryl Pawelski, Jeff Tweedy, Bob Ludwig | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) | All Nominees |
| 2022 | Best Historical Album | Patrick Milligan, Joni Mitchell, Bernie Grundman | Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) | All Nominees |
| 2021 | Best Historical Album | Lee Lodyga, Cheryl Pawelski, Michael Graves | It's Such A Good Feeling: The Best Of Mister Rogers | All Nominees |
| 2020 | Best Historical Album | Jeff Place, Robert Santelli, Pete Reiniger | Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection | All Nominees |
| 2019 | Best Historical Album | William Ferris, April G. Ledbetter, Steven Ledbetter, Michael Graves | Voices Of Mississippi: Artists And Musicians Documented By William Ferris | All Nominees |
| 2018 | Best Historical Album | Robert Russ, Martin Kistner, Andreas Meyer | Leonard Bernstein - The Composer | All Nominees |
| 2017 | Best Historical Album | Steve Berkowitz, Jeff Rosen, Mark Wilder | The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol.12 (Collector's Edition) | All Nominees |
| 2016 | Best Historical Album | Steve Berkowitz, Jan Haust, Jeff Rosen, Peter Moore, Mark Wilder | The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 | All Nominees |
| 2015 | Best Historical Album | Colin Escott, Cheryl Pawelski, Michael Graves | The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 | All Nominees |
| 2014 | Best Historical Album | Teri Landi, Andrew Loog Oldham, Steve Rosenthal, Bob Ludwig | Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965 | All Nominees |
| 2014 | Best Historical Album | Leo Sacks, Joseph M. Palmaccio, Tom Ruff, Mark Wilder | The Complete Sussex And Columbia Albums | All Nominees |
| 2013 | Best Historical Album | Alan Boyd, Mark Linett, Brian Wilson, Dennis Wolfe | The Smile Sessions (Deluxe Box Set) | All Nominees |
| 2012 | Best Historical Album | Paul McCartney, Sam Okell, Steve Rooke | Band On The Run (Paul McCartney Archive Collection - Deluxe Edition) | All Nominees |
| 2011 | Best Historical Album | Jeff Jones, Allan Rouse, Paul Hicks, Sean Magee, Guy Massey, Sam Okell, Steve Rooke | The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) | All Nominees |
| 2010 | Best Historical Album | Andy McKaie, Erick Labson | The Complete Chess Masters (1950-1967) | All Nominees |
| 2009 | Best Historical Album | Steven Ledbetter, Art Rosenbaum, Michael Graves | Art Of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years Of Traditional American Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum | All Nominees |
| 2008 | Best Historical Album | Nora Guthrie, Jorge Arévalo Mateus, Jamie Howarth, Steve Rosenthal, Warren Russell-Smith, Kevin Short | The Live Wire - Woody Guthrie In Performance 1949 | All Nominees |
| 2007 | Best Historical Album | Meagan Hennessey, Richard Martin, Tim Brooks, David Giovannoni | Lost Sounds: Blacks And The Birth Of The Recording Industry 1891-1922 | All Nominees |
| 2006 | Best Historical Album | Jeffrey A. Greenberg, Anna Lomax Wood, Adam Ayan, Steve Rosenthal | The Complete Library Of Congress Recordings By Alan Lomax | All Nominees |
| 2005 | Best Historical Album | Daniel Cooper, Michael D. Gray, Joseph M. Palmaccio, Alan Stoker | Night Train To Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945-1970 | All Nominees |
| 2004 | Best Historical Album | Steve Berkowitz, Alex Gibney, Andy McKaie, Jerry Rappaport, Gavin Lurssen, Joseph M. Palmaccio | Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey | All Nominees |
| 2003 | Best Historical Album | Dean Blackwood, David Glasser, Chris Thomas King, Matt Sandoski | Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues - The Worlds Of Charley Patton | All Nominees |
| 2002 | Best Historical Album | Michael Brooks, Michael Cuscuna, Matt Cavaluzzo, Harry Coster, Seth Foster, Darcy Proper, Ken Robertson, Mark Wilder | Lady Day - The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia 1933-1944 | All Nominees |
| 2001 | Best Historical Album | Steve Berkowitz, Seth Rothstein, Phil Schaap, Michael Brooks, Seth Foster, Andreas Meyer, Woody Pornpitaksuk, Ken Robertson, Tom Ruff, Mark Wilder | Louis Armstrong - The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings | All Nominees |
| 2000 | Best Historical Album | Orrin Keepnews, Steven Lasker, Paul Brizzi, Dennis Ferrante | The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973) | All Nominees |
| 1999 | Best Historical Album | Colin Escott, Kira Florita, Kyle Young, Joseph M. Palmaccio, Tom Ruff | The Complete Hank Williams | All Nominees |
| 1998 | Best Historical Album | Amy Horowitz, Jeff Place, Pete Reiniger, David Glasser, Charlie Pilzer | Anthology Of American Folk Music - 1997 Expanded Edition | All Nominees |
| 1997 | Best Historical Album | Bob Belden, Phil Schaap, Mark Wilder | The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings | All Nominees |
| 1996 | Best Historical Album | John Pfeiffer, Ray Hall, Thomas MacCluskey, James Nichols, Anthony Salvatore, Jon M. Samuels, David Satz | The Heifetz Collection | All Nominees |
| 1995 | Best Historical Album | Michael Lang | The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books On Verve | All Nominees |
| 1994 | Best Historical Album | Michael Lang, Phil Schaap | The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 | All Nominees |
| 1993 | Best Historical Album | Nat "King" Cole Trio | The Complete Capitol Recordings Of The Nat "King" Cole Trio | All Nominees |
| 1992 | Best Historical Album | Billie Holiday | Billie Holiday - The Complete Decca Recordings | All Nominees |
| 1991 | Best Historical Album | Robert Johnson | Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings | All Nominees |
| 1990 | Best Historical Album | Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry - The Chess Box | All Nominees |
| 1989 | Best Historical Album | Eric Clapton | Crossroads | All Nominees |
| 1988 | Best Historical Album | Thelonious Monk | Thelonious Monk - The Complete Riverside Recordings | All Nominees |
| 1987 | Best Historical Album | Brook Benton, Ray Charles, The Coasters, The Drifters, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding & Others | Atlantic Rhythm And Blues 1947-1974, Vols. 1-7 | All Nominees |
| 1986 | Best Historical Album | John Pfeiffer | RCA/Met - 100 Singers - 100 Years | All Nominees |
| 1985 | Best Historical Album | Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman & Others | Big Band Jazz | All Nominees |
| 1984 | Best Historical Album | Arturo Toscanini | The Greatest Recordings Of Arturo Toscanini - Symphonies, Vol. I | All Nominees |
| 1983 | Best Historical Album | Tommy Dorsey & Frank Sinatra | The Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra Sessions - Vols. 1 ,2 & 3 | All Nominees |
| 1982 | Best Historical Album | Hoagy Carmichael | Hoagy Carmichael - From Stardust To Ole Buttermilk Sky | All Nominees |
| 1981 | Best Historical Album | Andres Segovia | Segovia - The EMI Recordings 1927-39 | All Nominees |
| 1980 | Best Historical Album | Billie Holiday | Billie Holiday - Giants Of Jazz | All Nominees |
| 1979 | Best Historical Album | Lester Young | The Lester Young Story, Vol. 3 | All Nominees |
Previous Winners
Joni Mitchell Archives - Volume 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)
Centennial
Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos
Robert Gordon, Deanie Parker, Cheryl Pawelski, Michael W. Smith, Mason D. Williams, Michael Graves
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967)
It's Such A Good Feeling: The Best Of Mister Rogers
Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
Voices Of Mississippi: Artists And Musicians Documented By William Ferris
William Ferris, April G. Ledbetter, Steven Ledbetter, Michael Graves
Leonard Bernstein - The Composer
The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol.12 (Collector's Edition)
The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11
Steve Berkowitz, Jan Haust, Jeff Rosen, Peter Moore, Mark Wilder
The Garden Spot Programs, 1950
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