Pulitzer Prize Winners - History

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  1. 2013: Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
  2. 2012: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by the late Manning Marable
  3. 2011: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
  4. 2010: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
  5. 2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
  6. 2008: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
  7. 2007: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
  8. 2006: Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
  9. 2005: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
  10. 2004: A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn
  11. 2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
  12. 2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
  13. 2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
  14. 2000: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
  15. 1999: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace
  16. 1998: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
  17. 1997: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
  18. 1996: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor
  19. 1995: No Ordinary Time, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  20. 1994 No Award
  21. 1993: The Radicalism of then American Revolution, by Gordon S. Wood
  22. 1992: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
  23. 1991: A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  24. 1990: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines, by Stanley Karnow
  25. 1989: Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War, by James McPherson
  26. 1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, by Taylor Branch
  27. 1988: The Launching of American Science 1846-1876, by Robert Bruce
  28. 1987: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn
  29. 1986: ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age, by Walter A. McDougall
  30. 1985: Prophets of Regulation, by Thomas K. McCraw
  31. 1984 No Award
  32. 1983: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, by Rhys L. Isaac
  33. 1982: Mary Chesnut's Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward
  34. 1981: American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876, by Lawrence A. Cremin
  35. 1980: Been in the Storm So Long, by Leon F. Litwack
  36. 1979: The Dred Scott Case, by Don E. Fehrenbacher
  37. 1978: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
  38. 1977: The Impending Crisis, by David M. Potter (a posthumous publication) manuscript finished by Don E. Fehrenbacher
  39. 1976: Larry of Santa Fe, by Paul Horgan
  40. 1975: Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V, by Dumas Malone
  41. 1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstein
  42. 1973: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization, by Michael Kammen
  43. 1972: Neither Black Nor White, by Carl N. Degler
  44. 1971: Roosevelt, The Soldier of Freedom, by James MacGregor Burns
  45. 1970: Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department, by Dean Acheson
  46. 1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment, by Leonard W. Levy
  47. 1968: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn
  48. 1967: Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West, by William H. Goetzmann
  49. 1966: Life of the Mind in America, by Perry Miller
  50. 1965: The Greenback Era, by Irwin Unger
  51. 1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, by Sumner Chilton Powell
  52. 1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878, by Constance McLaughlin Green
  53. 1962: The Triumphant Empire, Thunder-Clouds in the West, by Lawrence H. Gibson
  54. 1961: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference, by Herbert Feis
  55. 1960: In the Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech
  56. 1959: The Republican Era: 1869-1901, by Leonard D. White with the assistance of Jean Schneider
  57. 1958: Banks and Politics in America, by Bray Hammond
  58. 1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, by George F. Kennan
  59. 1956: Age of Reform, by Richard Hofstadter
  60. 1955: Great River: the Rio Grande in North American History, by Paul Horgan
  61. 1954: A Stillness at Appomattox, by Bruce Catton
  62. 1953: The Era of Good Feelings, by George Dangerfield
  63. 1952: The Uprooted, by Oscar Handlin
  64. 1951: The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840, by R. Carlyle Buley
  65. 1950: Art and Life in America, by Oliver W. Larkin
  66. 1949: The Disruption of American Democracy, by Roy Franklin Nichols
  67. 1948: Across the Wide Missouri, by Bernard DeVoto
  68. 1947: Scientists Against Time, by James Phinney Baxter III
  69. 1946: The Age of Jackson, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  70. 1945: Unfinished Business, by Stephen Bonsal
  71. 1944: The Growth of American Thought, by Merle Curtis
  72. 1943: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, by Esther Forbes
  73. 1942: Reveille in Washington, by Margaret Leech
  74. 1941: The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860, by Marcus Lee Hansen
  75. 1940: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, by Carl Sandburg
  76. 1939: A History of American Magazines, by Frank Luther Mott
  77. 1938: The Road to Reunion, 1856-1900, by Paul Herman Buck
  78. 1937: The Flowering of New England, by Van Wyck Brooks
  79. 1936: The Constitutional History of the United States, by Andrew C. McLaughlin
  80. 1935: The Colonial Period of American History, by Charles McLean Andrews
  81. 1934: The People's Choice, by Herbert Agar
  82. 1933: The Significance of Sections in American History, by Frederick J. Turner
  83. 1932: My Experiences in the World War, by John J. Pershing
  84. 1931: The Coming of the War: 1914, by Bernadotte E. Schmitt
  85. 1930: The War of Independence, by Claude H. Van Tyne
  86. 1929: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865, by Fred Albert Shannon
  87. 1928: Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols., by Vernon Louis Parrington
  88. 1927: Pickney's Treaty, by Samuel Flagg Bemis
  89. 1926: The History of the United States, by Edward Canning
  90. 1925: A History of the American Frontier, by Frederic L. Paxson
  91. 1924: The American Revolution-A Constitutional Interpretation, by Charles Howard McIlwain
  92. 1923: The Supreme Court in United States History, by Charles Warren
  93. 1922: The Founding of New England, by James Truslow Adams
  94. 1921: The Victory at Sea, by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick
  95. 1920: The War with Mexico, 2 vols., by Justin H. Smith
  96. 1919 No Award
  97. 1918: A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, by James Ford Rhodes
  98. 1917: With Americans of Past and Present Days, by His Excellency J.J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to the United States
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These are the Pulitzer Prize Winners for History, listings through 2008

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Pulitzer Prize Winners for History