Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f Pulitzer Prize – History 2019 Pulitzer Prize – History Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight Amazon 2018 Pulitzer Prize – History The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea Jack E. Davis Amazon 2017 Pulitzer Prize – History Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy Heather Ann Thompson Amazon 2016 Pulitzer Prize – History Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America T. J. Stiles Amazon 2015 Pulitzer Prize – History Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People Elizabeth A. Fenn Amazon 2014 Pulitzer Prize – History The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 Alan Taylor Amazon 2013 Pulitzer Prize – History Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam Fredrik Logevall Amazon 2012 Pulitzer Prize – History Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Manning Marable Amazon 2011 Pulitzer Prize – History The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery Eric Foner Amazon 2010 Pulitzer Prize – History Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Liaquat Ahamed Amazon 2009 Pulitzer Prize – History The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family Annette Gordon-Reed Amazon 2008 Pulitzer Prize – History What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848 Daniel Walker Howe Amazon 2007 Pulitzer Prize – History The Race Beat Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff Amazon 2006 Pulitzer Prize – History Polio: An American Story David Oshinsky Amazon 2005 Pulitzer Prize – History Washington’s Crossing David Hackett Fischer Amazon 2004 Pulitzer Prize – History A Nation Under Our Feet Steven Hahn Amazon 2003 Pulitzer Prize – History An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943 Rick Atkinson Amazon 2002 Pulitzer Prize – History The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Louis Menand Amazon 2001 Pulitzer Prize – History Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Joseph J. Ellis Amazon 2000 Pulitzer Prize – History Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 David M. Kennedy Amazon 1999 Pulitzer Prize – History Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace Amazon 1998 Pulitzer Prize – History Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion Edward J. Larson Amazon 1997 Pulitzer Prize – History Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution Jack N. Rakove Amazon 1996 Pulitzer Prize – History William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic Alan Taylor Amazon 1995 Pulitzer Prize – History No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Amazon 1994 Pulitzer Prize – History No award given Amazon 1993 Pulitzer Prize – History The Radicalism of the American Revolution Gordon S. Wood Amazon 1992 Pulitzer Prize – History The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties Mark E. Neely, Jr. Amazon 1991 Pulitzer Prize – History A Midwife’s Tale Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Amazon 1990 Pulitzer Prize – History In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines Stanley Karnow Amazon 1989 Pulitzer Prize – History Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era James M. McPherson Amazon 1988 Pulitzer Prize – History The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 Robert V. Bruce Amazon 1987 Pulitzer Prize – History Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution Bernard Bailyn Amazon 1986 Pulitzer Prize – History …The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age Walter A. McDougall Amazon 1985 Pulitzer Prize – History Prophets of Regulation Thomas K. McCraw Amazon 1984 Pulitzer Prize – History No award given Amazon 1983 Pulitzer Prize – History The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 Rhys L. Isaac Amazon 1982 Pulitzer Prize – History Mary Chesnut’s Civil War C. Vann Woodward Amazon 1981 Pulitzer Prize – History American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 Lawrence A. Cremin Amazon 1980 Pulitzer Prize – History Been in the Storm So Long Leon F. Litwack Amazon 1979 Pulitzer Prize – History The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics Don E. Fehrenbacher Amazon 1978 Pulitzer Prize – History The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Amazon 1977 Pulitzer Prize – History The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher) Amazon 1976 Pulitzer Prize – History Lamy of Santa Fe Paul Horgan Amazon 1975 Pulitzer Prize – History Jefferson and His Time Dumas Malone Amazon 1974 Pulitzer Prize – History The Americans: The Democratic Experience Daniel J. Boorstin Amazon 1973 Pulitzer Prize – History People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization Michael Kammen Amazon 1972 Pulitzer Prize – History Neither Black nor White Carl N. Degler Amazon 1971 Pulitzer Prize – History Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom James MacGregor Burns Amazon 1970 Pulitzer Prize – History Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department Dean Acheson Amazon 1969 Pulitzer Prize – History Origins of the Fifth Amendment Leonard W. Levy Amazon 1968 Pulitzer Prize – History The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Bernard Bailyn Amazon 1967 Pulitzer Prize – History Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West William H. Goetzmann Amazon 1966 Pulitzer Prize – History The Life of the Mind in America Perry Miller Amazon 1965 Pulitzer Prize – History The Greenback Era Irwin Unger Amazon 1964 Pulitzer Prize – History Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town Sumner Chilton Powell Amazon 1963 Pulitzer Prize – History Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 Constance McLaughlin Green Amazon 1962 Pulitzer Prize – History The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 Lawrence H. Gipson Amazon 1961 Pulitzer Prize – History Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference Herbert Feis Amazon 1960 Pulitzer Prize – History In the Days of McKinley Margaret Leech Amazon 1959 Pulitzer Prize – History The Republican Era: 1869–1901 Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider Amazon 1958 Pulitzer Prize – History Banks and Politics in America Bray Hammond Amazon 1957 Pulitzer Prize – History Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 George F. Kennan Amazon 1956 Pulitzer Prize – History The Age of Reform Richard Hofstadter Amazon 1955 Pulitzer Prize – History Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History Paul Horgan Amazon 1954 Pulitzer Prize – History A Stillness at Appomattox Bruce Catton Amazon 1953 Pulitzer Prize – History The Era of Good Feelings George Dangerfield Amazon 1952 Pulitzer Prize – History The Uprooted Oscar Handlin Amazon 1951 Pulitzer Prize – History The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840 R. Carlyle Buley Amazon 1950 Pulitzer Prize – History Art and Life in America Oliver W. Larkin Amazon 1949 Pulitzer Prize – History The Disruption of American Democracy Roy Franklin Nichols Amazon 1948 Pulitzer Prize – History Across the Wide Missouri Bernard DeVoto Amazon 1947 Pulitzer Prize – History Scientists Against Time James Phinney Baxter III Amazon 1946 Pulitzer Prize – History The Age of Jackson Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Amazon 1945 Pulitzer Prize – History Unfinished Business Stephen Bonsal Amazon 1944 Pulitzer Prize – History The Growth of American Thought Merle Curti Amazon 1943 Pulitzer Prize – History Paul Revere and the World He Lived In Esther Forbes Amazon 1942 Pulitzer Prize – History Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 Margaret Leech Amazon 1941 Pulitzer Prize – History The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 Marcus Lee Hansen Amazon 1940 Pulitzer Prize – History Abraham Lincoln: The War Years Carl Sandburg Amazon 1939 Pulitzer Prize – History A History of American Magazines Frank Luther Mott Amazon 1938 Pulitzer Prize – History The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 Paul Herman Buck Amazon 1937 Pulitzer Prize – History The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 Van Wyck Brooks Amazon 1936 Pulitzer Prize – History A Constitutional History of the United States Andrew C. McLaughlin Amazon 1935 Pulitzer Prize – History The Colonial Period of American History Charles McLean Andrews Amazon 1934 Pulitzer Prize – History The People’s Choice Herbert Agar Amazon 1933 Pulitzer Prize – History The Significance of Sections in American History Frederick J. Turner Amazon 1932 Pulitzer Prize – History My Experiences in the World War John J. Pershing Amazon 1931 Pulitzer Prize – History The Coming of the War, 1914 Bernadotte E. Schmitt Amazon 1930 Pulitzer Prize – History The War of Independence Claude H. Van Tyne Amazon 1929 Pulitzer Prize – History The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 Fred Albert Shannon Amazon 1928 Pulitzer Prize – History Main Currents in American Thought Vernon Louis Parrington Amazon 1927 Pulitzer Prize – History Pinckney’s Treaty Samuel Flagg Bemis Amazon 1926 Pulitzer Prize – History A History of the United States Edward Channing Amazon 1925 Pulitzer Prize – History History of the American Frontier Frederic L. Paxson Amazon 1924 Pulitzer Prize – History The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation Charles Howard McIlwain Amazon 1923 Pulitzer Prize – History The Supreme Court in United States History Charles Warren Amazon 1922 Pulitzer Prize – History The Founding of New England James Truslow Adams Amazon 1921 Pulitzer Prize – History The Victory at Sea William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick Amazon 1920 Pulitzer Prize – History The War with Mexico Justin H. Smith Amazon 1919 Pulitzer Prize – History No award given Amazon 1918 Pulitzer Prize – History A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 James Ford Rhodes Amazon 1917 Pulitzer Prize – History With Americans of Past and Present Days Jean Jules Jusserand Amazon