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Pulitzer Prize Winners for
History
2005 - Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
(Oxford University Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life & the American South,
1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2 by Michael O’Brien (The University of
North Carolina Press)
Arc
of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, & Murder in the Jazz
Age by Kevin Boyle (Henry Holt)
2004 - A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles
in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven
Hahn (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
They Marched Into Sunlight: War & Peace, Vietnam & America,
October 1967 by David Maraniss (Simon & Schuster)
Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent
(Viking)
2003 - An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
by Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt & Company)
(Nominated Finalists)
At
the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by
Philip Dray (Random House)
Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge & Suppression in
Nineteenth Century America by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (Alfred
A. Knopf)
2002 - The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by
Louis Menand (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
(Nominated Finalists)
Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, & the Sea Island Society in the
Age of Segregation by J. William Harris (The Johns Hopkins
University Press)
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early
America by Daniel K. Richter (Harvard University Press)
2001 - Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by
Joseph J. Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
Way
Out There in the Blue by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster)
The
Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United
States by Alexander Keyssar (Basic Books)
2000 - Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression
& War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy (Oxford University Press
(Nominated Finalists)
Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania
Frontier by James H. Merrell (W.W. Norton)
The
Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics & the Triumph of Anglo-America
by Kevin Phillips (Basic Books)
1999 - Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin
G. Burrows & Mike Wallace (Oxford University Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age by William E.
Burrows (Random House)
In
a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession & Survival by Paula
Mitchell Marks (William Morrow & Company, Inc.)
1998 - Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial & America's
Continuing Debate Over Science & Religion by Edward J. Larson
(BasicBooks
(Nominated Finalists)
Big
Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle
for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas (Simon & Schuster)
Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
by Rogers M. Smith (Yale University Press)
1997 - Original Meanings: Politics & Ideas in the Making of
the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove (Alfred A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
Founding Mothers & Fathers by Mary Beth Norton (Alfred A. Knopf)
The
Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum (Alfred A. Knopf)
1996 - William Cooper's Town: Power & Persuasion on the
Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor (Alfred
A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison & the Founding of the
Federal Republic by Lance Banning (Cornell University Press)
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes
(Simon & Schuster)
1995 - No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The
Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon &
Schuster)
(Nominated Finalists)
Stories of Scottsboro by James Goodman (Pantheon)
Lincoln in American Memory by Merrill D. Peterson (Oxford
University Press)
1994 - (Nominated Finalists)
Crime & Punishment in American History by Lawrence M. Friedman
(Basic Books)
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald & the Assassination of JFK by
Gerald Posner (Random House)
William Faulkner & Southern History by Joel Williamson (Oxford
University Press)
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1993 - The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon
S. Wood (Alfred A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction by Edward L.
Ayers (Oxford University Press)
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry
Wills (Simon & Schuster)
1992 - The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln & Civil
Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr. (Oxford University Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago & the Great West by William Cronon
(W.W. Norton & Company
A
Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs by Theodore Draper (Hill
& Wang)
Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship & the Founding of
New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century by John Frederick
Martin (The University of North Carolina Press)
The
Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, & Republics in the Great Lakes
Region, 1650-1815 by Richard White (Cambridge University Press)
1991 - A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Alfred A.
Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 by
Lizabeth Cohen (Cambridge University Press
The
Civil Rights Era: Origins & Development of National Policy by
Hugh David Graham (Oxford University Press)
America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink by Kenneth M. Stampp
(Oxford University Press)
1990 - In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by
Stanley Karnow (Random House)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American
Revolution to World War I by Hugh Honour (Harvard University
Press)
American Genesis: A Century of Invention & Technological
Enthusiasm 1870-1970 by Thomas P. Hughes (Viking)
1989 - Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M.
McPherson (Oxford University Press)
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by
Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster)
(Nominated Finalists)
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by
Eric Foner (Harper & Row)
A
Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann & America in Vietnam by Neil
Sheehan (Random House)
1988 - The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 by
Robert V. Bruce (Alfred A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Fall of the House of Labor by David Montgomery (Cambridge
University Press)
The
Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System by
Charles E. Rosenberg (Basic Books)
1987 - Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of
America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (Alfred
A. Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
Eisenhower: At War, 1943-1945 by David Eisenhower (Random House)
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow (William
Morrow)
1986 - ...the Heavens & the Earth: A Political History of
the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall (Basic Books)
(Nominated Finalists)
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work & the Family
from Slavery to the Present by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books)
Emigrants & Exiles: Ireland & the Irish Exodus to North America
by Kerby A. Miller (Oxford University Press)
Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the
Constitution by Forrest McDonald (University Press of Kentucky)
1985 - Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
(Belknap/Harvard)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Great Father: The United States Government & the American
Indians by Francis Paul Prucha (University of Nebraska)
The
Crucible of Race by Joel Williamson (Oxford University Press)
1983 - The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L.
Isaac (U. North Carolina Press)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert L.
Middlekauff (Oxford University Press)
Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South by Bertram
Wyatt-Brown
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1982 - Mary Chesnut's Civil War (Yale U. Press) by edited by
C. Vann Woodward
(Nominated Finalists)
White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African
History by George M. Frederickson (Oxford University Press)
ower & Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945 by Akira
Iriye (Harvard University Press)
1981 - American Education: The National Experience,
1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin (Harper & Row)
(Nominated Finalists)
Over Here: The First World War & American Society by David M.
Kennedy (Oxford)
A
Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New
England by Lyle Koehler (Illinois)
1980. - Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack (Knopf)
(Nominated Finalists)
The
Urban Crucible by Gary B. Nash (Harvard)
The
Plains Across by John B. Unruh (Illinois)
1979 - The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher (Oxford
Univ. Press)
1978 - The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in
American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (Harvard Univ.
Press)
1977 - The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 by David M. Potter
(Harper), a posthumous publication. Manuscript finished by Don
E. Fehrenbacher
1976 - Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan (Farrar)
1975 - Jefferson & His Time, Vols. I-V by Dumas Malone
(Little)
1974 - The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J.
Boorstin (Random)
1973 - People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins
of American Civilization by Michael Kammen (Knopf)
1972 - Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler (Macmillan)
1971 - Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor
Burns (Harcourt)
1970 - Present At The Creation: My Years In The State
Department by Dean Acheson (Norton)
1969 - Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy
(Oxford Univ. Press)
1968 - The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by
Bernard Bailyn (Harvard Univ. Press)
1967 - Exploration & Empire: The Explorer & the Scientist in
the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann (Knopf)
1966 - The Life of the Mind in America by the late Perry
Miller (Harcourt)
1965 - The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (Princeton Univ.
Press)
1964 - Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
by Sumner Chilton Powell (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
1963 - Washington, Village & Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance
McLaughlin Green (Princeton Univ. Press)
1962 - The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the
West 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson (Knopf)
1961 - Between War & Peace: The Potsdam Conference by
Herbert Feis (Princeton Univ. Press)
1960 - In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (Harper)
1959 - The Republican Era: l869-1901 by Leonard D. White,
with the assistance of Miss Jean Schneider (Macmillan)
1958 - Banks & Politics in America by Bray Hammond
(Princeton Univ. Press)
1957 - Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations,
1917-192O by George F. Kennan (Princeton Univ. Press)
1956 - The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter (Knopf)
1955 - Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
by Paul Horgan (Rinehart)
1954 - A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (Doubleday)
1953 - The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
(Harcourt)
1952 - The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin (Little)
1951 - The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R.
Carlyle Buley (Towers, Inc.)
1950 - Art & Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (Rinehart)
1949 - The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin
Nichols (Macmillan)
1948 - Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard Devoto (Houghton)
1947 - Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter 3rd
(Little)
1946 - The Age of Jackson by Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.
(Little)
1945 - Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal (Doubleday)
1944 - The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti
(Harper)
1943 - Paul Revere & the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes
(Houghton)
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1942 - Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech
(Harper)
1941 - The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee
Hansen (Harvard Univ. Press)
1940 - Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg
(Harcourt)
1939 - A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott
(Harvard Univ. Press)
1938 - The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck
(Little)
1937 - The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 by Van Wyck
Brooks (Dutton)
1936 - A Constitutional History of the United States by
Andrew C. McLaughlin (Appleton)
1935 - The Colonial Period of American History by Charles
McLean Andrews (Yale Univ. Press)
1934 - The People's Choice by Herbert Agar (Houghton)
1933 - The Significance of Sections in American History by
Frederick J. Turner (Holt)
1932 - My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing
(Stokes)
1931 - The Coming of the War 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt
(Scribner)
1930 - The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne
(Houghton)
1929 - The Organization & Administration of the Union Army,
1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon (A.H. Clark)
1928 - Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. by Vernon
Louis Parrington (Harcourt)
1927 - Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Johns
Hopkins)
1926 - A History of the United States by Edward Channing
(Macmillan)
1925 - History of the American Frontier by Frederic L.
Paxson (Houghton)
1924 - The American Revolution -- A Constitutional
Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain (Macmillan)
1923 - The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles
Warren (Little)
1922 - The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams
(Little)
1921 - The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims in
collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick (Doubleday)
1920 - The War with Mexico, 2 vols. by Justin H. Smith
(Macmillan)
1918 - A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford
Rhodes (Macmillan)
1917 - With Americans of Past & Present Days by His
Excellency J.J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to the United
States (Scribner)
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