Pulitzer Prize for Writing for History

Pulitzer Prize for Writing for History

The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. Many history books have also been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

YearAuthorBook 
2008Daniel Walker HoweWhat Hath God Wrought The Transformation of America 
2007Gene RobertsThe Race Beat The Press the Civil Rights Struggle 
2006David M. OshinskyPolio An American Story 
2005David Hackett FischerWashington's Crossing 
2004Steven HahnA Nation Under Our Feet 
2003Rick AtkinsonAn Army at Dawn The War in North Africa 
2002Louis MenandThe Metaphysical Club A Story of Ideas in America 
2001Joseph J. EllisFounding Brothers The Revolutionary Generation 
2000David M. KennedyFreedom From Fear The American People in Depression and War 
1999Edwin G. BurrowsGotham A History of New York City to 1898 
1998Edward J. LarsonSummer for the Gods The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion 
1997Jack N. RakoveOriginal Meanings Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution 
1996Alan TaylorWilliam Cooper's Town Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic 
1995Doris Kearns GoodwinNo Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt The Home Front in World War II 
1994-- 
1993Gordon S. WoodThe Radicalism of the American Revolution 
1992Mark E. NeelyThe Fate of Liberty Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties 
1991Laurel Thatcher UlrichA Midwife's Tale 
1990Stanley KarnowIn Our Image America's Empire in the Philippines 
1989Taylor BranchParting the Waters America in the King Years 
1988Robert V. BruceThe Launching of Modern American Science 
1987Bernard BailynVoyagers to the West A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution 
1986Walter A. McDougall...the Heavens and the Earth 
1985Thomas K. McGrawProphets of Regulation 
1984-- 
1983Rhys L. IsaacThe Transformation of Virginia 
1982C.Vann WoodwardMary Chesnut's Civil War 
1981Lawrence A. CreminAmerican Education The National Experience 
1980Leon F. LitwackBeen in the Storm So Long 
1979Don E. FehrenbacherThe Dred Scott Case 
1978Alfred ChandlerThe Visible Hand The Managerial Revolution in American Business 
1977David M. PotterThe Impending Crisis 
1976Paul HorganLamy of Santa Fe 
1975Dumas MaloneJefferson and His Time 
1974Daniel BoorstinThe Americans The Democratic Experience 
1973Michael KammenPeople of Paradox An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization 
1972Carl N. DeglerNeither Black Nor White 
1971James MacGregor BurnsRoosevelt The Soldier Of Freedom 
1970Dean AchesonPresent At The Creation My Years In The State Department 
1969Leonard W. LevyOrigins of the Fifth Amendment 
1968Bernard BailynThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution 
1967William H. GoetzmannExploration and Empire The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West 
1966Perry MillerThe Life of the Mind in America 
1965Irwin UngerThe Greenback Era 
1964Sumner Chilton PowellPuritan Village The Formation of a New England Town 
1963Constance McLaughlin GreenWashington Village and Capital 1800-1878 
1962Lawrence H. GipsonThe Triumphant Empire Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 
1961Herbert FeisBetween War and Peace The Potsdam Conference 
1960Margaret LeechIn the Days of McKinley 
1959Leonard D. WhiteThe Republican Era l869-1901 
1958Bray HammondBanks and Politics in America 
1957George F.KennanRussia Leaves the War Soviet-American Relations 
1956Richard HofstadterThe Age of Reform 
1955Paul HorganGreat River The Rio Grande in North American History 
1954Bruce CattonA Stillness at Appomattox 
1953George DangerfieldThe Era of Good Feelings 
1952Oscar HandlinThe Uprooted 
1951R. Carlyle BuleyThe Old Northwest Pioneer Period 1815-1840 
1950Oliver W. LarkinArt and Life in America 
1949Roy Franklin NicholsThe Disruption of American Democracy 
1948Bernard DeVotoAcross the Wide Missouri 
1947James Phinney Baxter IIIScientists Against Time 
1946Arthur M.SchlesingerThe Age of Jackson 
1945Stephen BonsalUnfinished Business 
1944Merle CurtiThe Growth of American Thought 
1943Esther ForbesPaul Revere and the World He Lived In 
1942Margaret LeechReveille in Washington 
1941Marcus Lee HansenThe Atlantic Migration 
1940Carl SandburgAbraham Lincoln The War Years 
1939Frank Luther MottA History of American Magazines 
1938Paul Herman BuckThe Road to Reunion 
1937Van Wyck BrooksThe Flowering of New England 
1936Andrew C. McLaughlinA Constitutional History of the United States 
1935Charles McLean AndrewsThe Colonial Period of American History 
1934Herbert AgarThe People's Choice 
1933Frederick Jackson TurnerThe Significance of Sections in American History 
1932John J.PershingMy Experiences in the World War 
1931Bernadotte E. SchmittThe Coming of the War 
1930Claude H. Van TyneThe War of Independence 
1929Fred Albert ShanoonThe Organization and Administration of the Union Army 
1928Vernon Louis ParringtonMain Currents in American Thought 
1927Samuel Flagg BemisPinckney's Treaty 
1926Edward ChanningA History of the United States 
1925Frederic L. PaxsonHistory of the American Frontier 
1924Charles Howard McIlwainThe American Revolution A Constitutional Interpretation 
1923Charles WarrenThe Supreme Court in United States History 
1922James Truslow AdamsThe Founding of New England 
1921William Sowden SimsThe Victory at Sea 
1920Justin H. SmithThe War with Mexico 
1919-- 
1918James Ford RhodesA History of the Civil War 
1917J. J. JusserandWith Americans of Past and Present Days 
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