1992 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner

The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Mark E. Neely, Jr.
If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln’s record on the Constitution and individual rights has fueled a century of debate, from charges that Democrats were …
1992 Pulitzer Prize – History Shortlist

A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs
Theodore Draper

Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
William Cronon

Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century
John Frederick Martin
