1986 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

…The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age

Walter A. McDougall

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History for 1986, this highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on exhaustive research, author and ORBIS editor Walter A. McDougall examines U.S., European, and Sovi…

Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America

Kerby A. Miller

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present

Jacqueline Jones

Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution

Forrest McDonald