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WINNERS OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

FOR HISTORY

The Pulitzer Prize, started by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), is awarded each year for books published the previous year. During some years no award was given.

Click on the links below to find these books in our catalog.

• 2007 - The race beat : the press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a nation, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
• 2006 - Polio: an American story, by David M. Oshinsky
• 2005 - Washington's crossing, by David Hackett Fischer
• 2004 - A nation under our feet: Black political struggles in the rural south from slavery to the great migration, by Steven Hahn
• 2003 - An army at dawn: the war in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
• 2002 - The Metaphysical Club, by Louis Menand
• 2001 - Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation, by Joseph J. Ellis
• 2000 - Freedom from fear : the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945, by David M. Kennedy
• 1999 - Gotham : a history of New York City to 1898, by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
• 1998 - Summer for the gods : the Scopes trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion, by Edward J. Larson
• 1997 - Original meanings : politics and ideas in the making of the Constitution, by Jack N. Rakove
• 1996 - William Cooper's town : power and persuasion on the frontier of the early American republic, by Alan Taylor
• 1995 - No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• 1994 - No award
• 1993 - The radicalism of the American revolution, by Gordon S. Wood
• 1992 - The fate of liberty : Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties, by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
• 1991 - A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• 1990 - In our image : America's empire in the Philippines, by Stanley Karnow
• 1989 - Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era, by James M. McPherson
  and Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-1963, by Taylor Branch
• 1988 - The launching of modern American science, 1846-1976, by Robert Bruce
• 1987 - Voyagers to the West : a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn
• 1986 - The heavens and the earth : a political history of the space age, by Walter A. McDougall
• 1985 - Prophets of regulation : Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn, by Thomas K. McCraw
• 1984 - No award
• 1983 - The transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, by Rhys L. Issac
• 1982 - Mary Chesnut's Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward
• 1981 - American education : the national experience, 1783-1876, by Lawrence A. Cremin
• 1980 - Been in the storm so long : the aftermath of slavery, by Leon F. Litwack
• 1979 - The Dred Scott case : its significance in American law and politics, by Don E. Fehrenbacher
• 1978 - The visible hand : the managerial revolution in American business, by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
• 1977 - The impending crisis, 1848-1861 /, by David M. Potter
• 1976 - Lamy of Santa Fe, his life and times, by Paul Horgan
• 1975 - Jefferson and his time, by Dumas Malone
• 1974 - The Americans : the democratic experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin
• 1973 - People of paradox : an inquiry concerning the origins of American civilization, by Michael Kammen
• 1972 - Neither black nor white : slavery and race relations in Brazil and the United States, by Carl N. Degler
• 1971 - Roosevelt : the soldier of freedom, by James McGregor Burns
• 1970 - Present at the creation : my years in the State Department, by Dean Acheson
• 1969 - Origin of the Fifth Amendment, by Leonard W. Levy
• 1968 - The ideological origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn
• 1967 - Exploration and empire : the explorer and scientist in the winning of the American West, by William H. Goetzmann
• 1966 - Life of the mind in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War, by Perry Miller
• 1965 - The greenback era, by Irwin Unger
• 1964 - Puritan village : the formation of a New England town, by Sumner Chilton Powell
• 1963 - Washington : village and capital, 1800-1878, by Constance McLaughlin Green
• 1962 - The triumphant empire : thunderclouds gather in the west, by Lawrence H. Gibson
• 1961 - Between war and peace : the Potsdam conference, by Herbert Feis
• 1960 - In the days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech
• 1959 - The Republican era : 1869-1901, by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider
• 1958 - Banks and politics in America : from the Revolution to the Civil War, by Bray Hammond
• 1957 - Russia leaves the war, by George F. Kennan
• 1956 - The age of reform, by Richard Hofstadter
• 1955 - Great river : the Rio Grande in North American history, by Paul Horgan
• 1954 - A stillness at Appomattox, by Bruce Catton
• 1953 - The era of good feelings, by George Dangerfield
• 1952 - The uprooted, by Oscar Handlin
• 1951 - The old northwest : pioneer period 1815-1840, by R. Carlyle Buley
• 1950 - Art and life in America, by O. W. Larkin
• 1949 - The disruption of American democracy, by Roy F. Nichols
• 1948 - Across the wide Missouri, by Bernard De Voto
• 1947 - Scientists against time, by James Phinney Baxter III
• 1946 - The age of Jackson, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• 1945 - Unfinished business, by Stephen Bonsal
• 1944 - The growth of American thought, by Merle Curti
• 1943 - Paul Revere and the world he lived in, by Esther Forbes
• 1942 - Reveille in Washington, by Margaret Leech
• 1941 - The Atlantic migration, 1607-1860 : a history of the continuing settlement of the United States, by Marcus Lee Hansen
• 1940 - Abraham Lincoln : the war years, by Carl Sandburg
• 1939 - A history of American magazines, by Frank Luther Mott
• 1938 - The road to reunion, 1865-1900, by Paul Herman Buck
• 1937 - The flowering of New England, by Van Wyck Brooks
• 1936 - The constitutional history of the United States, by Andrew C. McLaughlin
• 1935 - The colonial period of American history, by Charles McLean Andrews
• 1934 - The people's choice, from Washington to Harding : a study in democracy,by Herbert Agar
• 1933 - The significance of sections in American history, by Frederick J. Turner
• 1932 - My experiences in the world war, by Gen. John J. Pershing
• 1931 - The coming of the war, 1914, by Bernadotte E. Schmitt
• 1930 - The war of independence, by Claude H. Van Tyne
• 1929 - The organization and administration of the Union army, 1861-1865, by Fred A. Shannon
• 1928 - Main currents in American thought : an interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920, by V. L. Parrington
• 1927 - Pinckney's treaty : a study of America's advantage from Europe's distress, 1783-1800, by Samuel Flagg Bemis
• 1926 - A history of the United States, by Edward Channing
• 1925 - A history of the American frontier, 1763-1893, by Frederick L. Paxton
• 1924 - The American revolution : a constitutional interpretation, by Charles Howard McIlwain
• 1923 - The Supreme Court in United States history, by Charles Warren
• 1922 - The founding of New England, by James Truslow Adams
• 1921 - The victory at sea, by William Sowden Sims
• 1920 - The war with Mexico, by Justin H. Smith
• 1919 - No award
• 1918 - History of the Civil War, by James Ford Rhodes
• 1917 - With Americans of past and present days, by J. J. Jusserand