PULITZER PRIZE 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

★ '2007:' ''The Race Beat'' by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff

★ '2006:' '' by David Oshinsky

★ '2005:' ''Washington's Crossing'' by David Hackett Fischer

★ '2004:' ''A Nation Under Our Feet'' by Steven Hahn

★ '2003:' ''An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943'' by Rick Atkinson

★ '2002:' ''The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America'' by Louis Menand

★ '2001:' '' by Joseph J. Ellis

★ '2000:' ''Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945'' by David M. Kennedy

★ '1999:' '' by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace

★ '1998:' ''Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion'' by Edward J. Larson

★ '1997:' ''Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution'' by Jack N. Rakove

★ '1996:' ''William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic'' by Alan Taylor

★ '1995:' ''No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II'' by Doris Kearns Goodwin

★ '1994:' no award given

★ '1993:' ''The Radicalism of the American Revolution'' by Gordon S. Wood

★ '1992:' ''The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties'' by Mark E. Neely, Jr.

★ '1991:' ''A Midwife's Tale'' by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

★ '1990:' ''In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines'' by Stanley Karnow

★ '1989:' ''Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963'' by Taylor Branch

★ '1989:' ''Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era'' by James M. McPherson

★ '1988:' ''The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876'' by Robert V. Bruce

★ '1987:' ''Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution'' by Bernard Bailyn

★ '1986:' ''...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age'' by Walter A. McDougall

★ '1985:' ''Prophets of Regulation'' by Thomas K. McCraw

★ '1984:' no award given

★ '1983:' ''The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790'' by Rhys L. Isaac

★ '1982:' ''Mary Chesnut's Civil War'' by C. Vann Woodward

★ '1981:' ''American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876'' by Lawrence A. Cremin

★ '1980:' ''Been in the Storm So Long'' by Leon F. Litwack

★ '1979:' ''The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics'' by Don E. Fehrenbacher

★ '1978:' ''The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business'' by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

★ '1977:' ''The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867'' by David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)

★ '1976:' ''Lamy of Santa Fe'' by Paul Horgan

★ '1975:' ''Jefferson and His Time'' by Dumas Malone

★ '1974:' ''The Americans: The Democratic Experience'' by Daniel J. Boorstin

★ '1973:' ''People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization'' by Michael Kammen

★ '1972:' ''Neither Black Nor White'' by Carl N. Degler

★ '1971:' ''Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom'' by James MacGregor Burns

★ '1970:' ''Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department'' by Dean Acheson

★ '1969:' ''Origins of the Fifth Amendment'' by Leonard W. Levy

★ '1968:' ''The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution'' by Bernard Bailyn

★ '1967:' ''Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West'' by William H. Goetzmann

★ '1966:' ''The Life of the Mind in America'' by Perry Miller

★ '1965:' ''The Greenback Era'' by Irwin Unger

★ '1964:' ''Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town'' by Sumner Chilton Powell

★ '1963:' ''Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878'' by Constance McLaughlin Green

★ '1962:' ''The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763-1766'' by Lawrence H. Gipson

★ '1961:' ''Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference'' by Herbert Feis

★ '1960:' ''In the Days of McKinley'' by Margaret Leech

★ '1959:' ''The Republican Era: 1869-1901'' by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider

★ '1958:' ''Banks and Politics in America'' by Bray Hammond

★ '1957:' ''Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920'' by George F. Kennan

★ '1956:' ''The Age of Reform'' by Richard Hofstadter

★ '1955:' ''Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History'' by Paul Horgan

★ '1954:' ''A Stillness at Appomattox'' by Bruce Catton

★ '1953:' ''The Era of Good Feelings'' by George Dangerfield

★ '1952:' ''The Uprooted'' by Oscar Handlin

★ '1951:' ''The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840'' by R. Carlyle Buley

★ '1950:' ''Art and Life in America'' by Oliver W. Larkin

★ '1949:' ''The Disruption of American Democracy'' by Roy Franklin Nichols

★ '1948:' ''Across the Wide Missouri'' by Bernard DeVoto

★ '1947:' ''Scientists Against Time'' by James Phinney Baxter III

★ '1946:' ''The Age of Jackson'' by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

★ '1945:' ''Unfinished Business'' by Stephen Bonsal

★ '1944:' ''The Growth of American Thought'' by Merle Curti

★ '1943:' ''Paul Revere and the World He Lived In'' by Esther Forbes

★ '1942:' ''Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865'' by Margaret Leech

★ '1941:' ''The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860'' by Marcus Lee Hansen

★ '1940:' ''Abraham Lincoln: The War Years'' by Carl Sandburg

★ '1939:' ''A History of American Magazines'' by Frank Luther Mott

★ '1938:' ''The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900'' by Paul Herman Buck

★ '1937:' ''The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865'' by Van Wyck Brooks

★ '1936:' ''A Constitutional History of the United States'' by Andrew C. McLaughlin

★ '1935:' ''The Colonial Period of American History'' by Charles McLean Andrews

★ '1934:' ''The People's Choice'' by Herbert Agar

★ '1933:' ''The Significance of Sections in American History'' by Frederick J. Turner

★ '1932:' ''My Experiences in the World War'' by John J. Pershing

★ '1931:' ''The Coming of the War, 1914'' by Bernadotte E. Schmitt

★ '1930:' ''The War of Independence'' by Claude H. Van Tyne

★ '1929:' ''The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865'' by Fred Albert Shannon

★ '1928:' ''Main Currents in American Thought'' by Vernon Louis Parrington

★ '1927:' ''Pinckney's Treaty'' by Samuel Flagg Bemis

★ '1926:' ''A History of the United States'' by Edward Channing

★ '1925:' ''History of the American Frontier'' by Frederic L. Paxson

★ '1924:' ''The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation'' by Charles Howard McIlwain

★ '1923:' ''The Supreme Court in United States History'' by Charles Warren

★ '1922:' ''The Founding of New England'' by James Truslow Adams

★ '1921:' ''The Victory at Sea'' by William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick

★ '1920:' ''The War with Mexico'' by Justin H. Smith

★ '1919:' no award given

★ '1918:' ''A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865'' by James Ford Rhodes

★ '1917:' ''With Americans of Past and Present Days'' by Jean Jules Jusserand