2009 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed

Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker This epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicl…

The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s

G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust