- Pulitzer Prize for History
The
Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. Many history books have also been awarded thePulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction andPulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography * 2008: "" by
Daniel Walker Howe
* 2007: "The Race Beat " by Gene Roberts andHank Klibanoff
* 2006: "" byDavid Oshinsky
* 2005: "Washington's Crossing" byDavid Hackett Fischer
* 2004: "A Nation Under Our Feet " bySteven Hahn
* 2003: "" byRick Atkinson
* 2002: "The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America" byLouis Menand
* 2001: "" by Joseph J. Ellis
* 2000: "" by David M. Kennedy
* 1999: "" byEdwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
* 1998: "" byEdward J. Larson
* 1997: "" byJack N. Rakove
* 1996: "" byAlan Taylor
* 1995: "" byDoris Kearns Goodwin
* 1994: no award given
* 1993: "The Radicalism of the American Revolution " byGordon S. Wood
* 1992: "" byMark E. Neely, Jr.
* 1991: "A Midwife's Tale " byLaurel Thatcher Ulrich
* 1990: "" byStanley Karnow
* 1989: "" byTaylor Branch
* 1989: "" byJames M. McPherson
* 1988: "The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 " byRobert V. Bruce
* 1987: "" byBernard Bailyn
* 1986: "" byWalter A. McDougall
* 1985: "Prophets of Regulation " byThomas K. McCraw
* 1984: no award given
* 1983: "The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 " byRhys L. Isaac
* 1982: "Mary Chesnut's Civil War " byC. Vann Woodward
* 1981: "" byLawrence A. Cremin
* 1980: "Been in the Storm So Long " byLeon F. Litwack
* 1979: "" byDon E. Fehrenbacher
* 1978: "" byAlfred D. Chandler, Jr.
* 1977: "The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 " byDavid M. Potter (Completed and edited byDon E. Fehrenbacher )
* 1976: "Lamy of Santa Fe " byPaul Horgan
* 1975: "Jefferson and His Time " byDumas Malone
* 1974: "" byDaniel J. Boorstin
* 1973: "" byMichael Kammen
* 1972: "Neither Black Nor White " byCarl N. Degler
* 1971: "" byJames MacGregor Burns
* 1970: "" byDean Acheson
* 1969: "Origins of the Fifth Amendment " byLeonard W. Levy
* 1968: "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution " byBernard Bailyn
* 1967: "" byWilliam H. Goetzmann
* 1966: "The Life of the Mind in America " byPerry Miller
* 1965: "The Greenback Era " byIrwin Unger
* 1964: "" bySumner Chilton Powell
* 1963: "Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 " byConstance McLaughlin Green
* 1962: "" byLawrence H. Gipson
* 1961: "" byHerbert Feis
* 1960: "In the Days of McKinley " byMargaret Leech
* 1959: "" byLeonard D. White andJean Schneider
* 1958: "Banks and Politics in America " byBray Hammond
* 1957: "" byGeorge F. Kennan
* 1956: "The Age of Reform " byRichard Hofstadter
* 1955: "" byPaul Horgan
* 1954: "A Stillness at Appomattox " byBruce Catton
* 1953: "The Era of Good Feelings " byGeorge Dangerfield
* 1952: "The Uprooted " byOscar Handlin
* 1951: "The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 " byR. Carlyle Buley
* 1950: "Art and Life in America " byOliver W. Larkin
* 1949: "The Disruption of American Democracy " byRoy Franklin Nichols
* 1948: "Across the Wide Missouri " byBernard DeVoto
* 1947: "Scientists Against Time " byJames Phinney Baxter III
* 1946: "The Age of Jackson " byArthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
* 1945: "Unfinished Business " byStephen Bonsal
* 1944: "The Growth of American Thought " byMerle Curti
* 1943: "Paul Revere and the World He Lived In " byEsther Forbes
* 1942: "Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 " byMargaret Leech
* 1941: "The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 " byMarcus Lee Hansen
* 1940: "" byCarl Sandburg
* 1939: "A History of American Magazines " byFrank Luther Mott
* 1938: "The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 " byPaul Herman Buck
* 1937: "The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865 " byVan Wyck Brooks
* 1936: "A Constitutional History of the United States " byAndrew C. McLaughlin
* 1935: "The Colonial Period of American History " byCharles McLean Andrews
* 1934: "The People's Choice " byHerbert Agar
* 1933: "The Significance of Sections in American History " by Frederick J. Turner
* 1932: "My Experiences in the World War " byJohn J. Pershing
* 1931: "The Coming of the War, 1914 " byBernadotte E. Schmitt
* 1930: "The War of Independence " byClaude H. Van Tyne
* 1929: "The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 " byFred Albert Shannon
* 1928: "Main Currents in American Thought " byVernon Louis Parrington
* 1927: "Pinckney's Treaty " bySamuel Flagg Bemis
* 1926: "A History of the United States " byEdward Channing
* 1925: "History of the American Frontier " byFrederic L. Paxson
* 1924: "" byCharles Howard McIlwain
* 1923: "The Supreme Court in United States History " by Charles Warren
* 1922: "The Founding of New England " byJames Truslow Adams
* 1921: "The Victory at Sea " byWilliam Sowden Sims andBurton J. Hendrick
* 1920: "The War with Mexico " by Justin H. Smith
* 1919: no award given
* 1918: "A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 " byJames Ford Rhodes
* 1917: "With Americans of Past and Present Days " byJean Jules Jusserand
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