Pulitzer Prize: Letters: History
The Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American
journalism, letters, drama and music. The prizes have been awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University
since 1917.
- 2000 Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War,
1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
- 1999 Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin
G. Burrows & 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, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- 1994 No Award
- 1993 The Radicalism of then 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: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her
Diary, 1785-1812, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- 1990 In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines,
by Stanley Karnow
- 1989 Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War Era, by James M
McPherson & Parting the Waters: America in the King Years
1954-63, by Taylor Branch
- 1988 The Launching of American Science 1846-1876, by
Robert Bruce
- 1987 Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on
the Eve ofthe 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
- 1983 The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, by Rhys
L. Isaac
- 1982 Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited 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, by Don E. Fehrenbacher
- 1978 The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American
Business, by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
- 1977 The Impending Crisis, by David M. Potter (a
posthumous publication) manuscript finished by Don E. Fehrenbacher
- 1976 Larry of Santa Fe, by Paul Horgan
- 1975 Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V, by Dumas Malone
- 1974 The Americans: The Democratic Experience, by Daniel
J. Boorstein
- 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 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 in the West,
by Lawrence H. Gibson
- 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
with the assistance of 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 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 Curtis
- 1943 Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, by Esther
Forbes
- 1942 Reveille in Washington, 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, 1856-1900, by Paul Herman Buck
- 1937 The Flowering of New England, by Van Wyck Brooks
- 1936 The 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, 2 vols., by
Vernon Louis Parrington
- 1927 Pickney’s Treaty, by Samuel Flagg Bemis
- 1926 The History of the United States, by Edward Canning
- 1925 A 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 in
collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick
- 1920 The War with Mexico, 2 vols., by Justin H. Smith
- 1919 No Award
- 1918 A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, by James Ford
Rhodes
- 1917 With Americans of Past and Present Days, by His
Excellency J.J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to the United States
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