PULITZER PRIZE for HISTORY

The Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, drama and music. The prizes have been awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University since 1917.

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• 2004 A Nation Under Our Feet Steven Hahn
• 2003 An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 Rick Atkinson
• 2002 The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Louis Menand
• 2001 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Joseph J Ellis
• 2000 Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 David M. Kennedy (973.91 KEN)
• 1999 Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (974.71 BUR)
• 1998 Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion Edward J. Larson (345.0288 SCO)
• 1997 Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution Jack N. Rakove
• 1996 William Cooper’s town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic Alan Taylor
• 1995 No ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the Home Front in World War II Doris Kearns Goodwin (973.917 ROO)
• 1994 No Award
• 1993 The Radicalism of the American Revolution Gordon S. Wood
• 1992 The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties Mark E. Neely, Jr.
• 1991 A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• 1990 In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines Stanley Karnow
• 1989 Battle cry of freedom: The Civil War Era James M McPherson (973.73 MCP) & Parting the waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 Taylor Branch (323.1196073 BRA)
• 1988 The Launching of American Science 1846-1876 Robert Bruce
• 1987 Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution Bernard Bailyn
• 1986 The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age Walter A. McDougall (629.40973 MCD)
• 1985 Prophets of Regulation Thomas K. McCraw
• 1984 No Award
• 1983 The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 Rhys L. Isaac
• 1982 Mary Chesnut’s Civil War edited C. Vann Woodward
• 1981 American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 Lawrence A. Cremin
• 1980 Been in the Storm So Long Leon F. Litwack
• 1979 The Dred Scott Case Don E. Fehrenbacher
• 1978 The Visible hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (658.400973 CHA)
• 1977 The Impending Crisis David M. Potter (a posthumous publication) manuscript finished Don E. Fehrenbacher
• 1976 Larry of Santa Fe Paul Horgan
• 1975 Jefferson and His Time Vols. I-V Dumas Malone
• 1974 The Americans: The Democratic Experience Daniel J. Boorstein
• 1973 People of paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization Michael Kammen
• 1972 Neither Black nor White Carl N. Degler
• 1971 Roosevelt, The Soldier of Freedom James MacGregor Burns
• 1970 Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department Dean Acheson
• 1969 Origins of the Fifth Amendment Leonard W. Levy
• 1968 The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Bernard Bailyn
• 1967 Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West William H. Goetzmann
• 1966 Life of the Mind in America Perry Miller
• 1965 The Greenback Era Irwin Unger
• 1964 Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town Sumner Chilton Powell
• 1963 Washington Village and Capital, 1800-1878 Constance McLaughlin Green
• 1962 The Triumphant Empire, Thunder-Clouds in the West Lawrence H. Gibson
• 1961 Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference Herbert Feis
• 1960 In the days of McKinley Margaret Leech
• 1959 The Republican Era: 1869-1901 Leonard D. White with the assistance of Jean Schneider
• 1958 Banks and Politics in America Bray Hammond
• 1957 Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 George F. Kennan
• 1956 Age of reform Richard Hofstadter
• 1955 Great River: the Rio Grande in North American History Paul Horgan
• 1954 A Stillness at Appomattox Bruce Catton
• 1953 The Era of Good Feelings George Dangerfield
• 1952 The Uprooted Oscar Handlin
• 1951 The Old Northwest Pioneer Period 1815-1840 R. Carlyle Buley
• 1950 Art and Life in America Oliver W. Larkin
• 1949 The Disruption of American Democracy Roy Franklin Nichols
• 1948 Across the Wide Missouri Bernard DeVoto
• 1947 Scientists Against Time James Phinney Baxter III
• 1946 The Age of Jackson Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (973.5 JAC)
• 1945 Unfinished Business Stephen Bonsal
• 1944 The Growth of American Thought Merle Curti
• 1943 Paul Revere and the World He Lived in Esther Forbes (973.3 REV)
• 1942 Reveille in Washington Margaret Leech
• 1941 The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 Marcus Lee Hansen
• 1940 Abraham Lincoln: The War Years Carl Sandburg
• 1939 A History of American Magazines Frank Luther Mott
• 1938 The Road to Reunion, 1856-1900 Paul Herman Buck
• 1937 The Flowering of New England Van Wyck Brooks
• 1936 The Constitutional History of the United States Andrew C. McLaughlin
• 1935 The Colonial Period of American history Charles McLean Andrews
• 1934 The People’s Choice Herbert Agar
• 1933 The Significance of sections in American History Frederick J. Turner
• 1932 My Experiences in the World War John J. Pershing
• 1931 The Coming of the War: 1914 Bernadotte E. Schmitt
• 1930 The War of Independence Claude H. Van Tyne
• 1929 The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 Fred Albert Shannon
• 1928 Main currents in American Thought (2 volumes) Vernon Louis Parrington
• 1927 Pickney’s Treaty Samuel Flagg Bemis
• 1926 The History of the United States Edward Canning
• 1925 A History of the American Frontier Frederic L. Paxson
• 1924 The American Revolution - A Constitutional interpretation Charles Howard McIlwain
• 1923 The Supreme Court in United States History Charles Warren
• 1922 The Founding of New England James Truslow Adams
• 1921 The Victory at Sea William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick
• 1920 The War with Mexico (2 volumes) Justin H. Smith
• 1919 No Award
• 1918 A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 James Ford Rhodes
• 1917 With Americans of Past and Present Days His Excellency J.J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to the United States