2016 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

T. J. Stiles

“In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer’s historical caricature, revealing a capable yet insecure man, i…

Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

Brian Matthew Jordan

Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor

James M. Scott

The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency

Annie Jacobsen