The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by

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, is one of the seven American

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that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the

history of the United States The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many saw transformations in the 16th century away from more densely ...

. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year. The Pulitzer Prize program has also recognized some historical work with its Biography prize, from 1917, and its General Non-Fiction prize, from 1962. Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.

Winners

In its first 97 years to 2013, the History Pulitzer was awarded 95 times. Two prizes were given in 1989; none in 1919, 1984, and 1994. Four people have won two each,

Margaret Leech Margaret Kernochan Leech (November 7, 1893 – February 24, 1974), also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American historian and fiction writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History both in 1942 (''Reveille in Washington'', Harper) (first woma ...

Bernard Bailyn Bernard Bailyn (September 10, 1922 – August 7, 2020) was an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1953. Bailyn won the Pulitzer Pr ...

, Paul Horgan and Alan Taylor. * 1917: ''

With Americans of Past and Present Days Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand (18 February 1855 – 18 July 1932) was a French author and diplomat. He was the French Ambassador to the United States 1903-1925 and played a major diplomatic role during World War I. Birth and education ...

'' by Jean Jules Jusserand * 1918: '' A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865'' by James Ford Rhodes * 1919: no award given

1920s

* 1920: ''

The War with Mexico ''The War with Mexico'' is a book by Justin Harvey Smith Justin Harvey Smith (born January 13, 1857, Boscawen, New Hampshire; died March 21, 1930, Brooklyn, New York) was an American historian and specialist on the Mexican–American War. Smith w ...

'' by Justin H. Smith * 1921: '' The Victory at Sea'' by William Sowden Sims and

Burton J. Hendrick Burton Jesse Hendrick (December 8, 1870 – March 23, 1949), born in New Haven, Connecticut, was an American author. While attending Yale University, Hendrick was editor of both The Yale Courant and The Yale Literary Magazine. He received his BA ...

* 1922: '' The Founding of New England'' by

James Truslow Adams James Truslow Adams (October 18, 1878 – May 18, 1949) was an American writer and historian. He was a freelance author who helped to popularize the latest scholarship about American history and his three-volume history of New England is well r ...

* 1923: '' The Supreme Court in United States History'' by

Charles Warren General Sir Charles Warren, (7 February 1840 – 21 January 1927) was an officer in the British Royal Engineers. He was one of the earliest European archaeologists of the Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of the Temple Mount. Much of his mi ...

* 1924: '' The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation'' by

Charles Howard McIlwain Charles Howard McIlwain (March 15, 1871 – June 1, 1968) was an American historian and political scientist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1924. He was educated at Princeton University and Harvard University and taught at both instituti ...

* 1925: ''

History of the American Frontier History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as wel ...

'' by Frederic L. Paxson * 1926: ''

A History of the United States A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes ...

, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849–1865)'' by

Edward Channing Edward Perkins Channing (June 15, 1856 – January 7, 1931) was an American historian and an author of a monumental ''History of the United States'' in six volumes, for which he won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History. His thorough research i ...

* 1927: '' Pinckney's Treaty '' by Samuel Flagg Bemis * 1928: ''

Main Currents in American Thought Vernon Louis Parrington (August 3, 1871 – June 16, 1929) was an American literary historian and scholar. His three-volume history of American letters, ''Main Currents in American Thought'', won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1928 and was o ...

'' by

Vernon Louis Parrington Vernon Louis Parrington (August 3, 1871 – June 16, 1929) was an American literary historian and scholar. His three-volume history of American letters, ''Main Currents in American Thought'', won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1928 and was o ...

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

1930s

* 1930: ''

The War of Independence ''The War of Independence'' is a nonfiction history book by American historian Claude H. Van Tyne, published in 1929. It explains the history and causes of the American Revolutionary War. Van Tyne won the Pulitzer Prize for History The Pulitzer ...

'' by

Claude H. Van Tyne Claude Halstead Van Tyne (October 16, 1869 – March 21, 1930) was an American historian. He was a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 1902. He taught history at the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1930 and wrote several books o ...

* 1931: '' The Coming of the War, 1914'' by

Bernadotte E. Schmitt Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (19 May 1886 – 23 March 1969) was an American historian who was professor of Modern European History at the University of Chicago from 1924 to 1946. He is best known for his study of the causes of World War I, in whi ...

* 1932: ''

My Experiences in the World War ''My Experiences in the World War'' is the memoir of General of the Armies John J. Pershing experiences in World War I. Pershing's memoir covers two volumes. They were originally published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company of New York City, a ...

'' by John J. Pershing * 1933: '' The Significance of Sections in American History'' by Frederick J. Turner * 1934: '' The People's Choice'' by

Herbert Agar Herbert Sebastian Agar (29 September 1897 – 24 November 1980) was an American journalist and historian, and an editor of the '' Louisville Courier-Journal''. Early life Herbert Sebastian Agar was born September 29, 1897 in New Rochelle, New Yor ...

* 1935: '' The Colonial Period of American History'' by

Charles McLean Andrews Charles McLean Andrews (February 22, 1863 – September 9, 1943) was an American historian, an authority on American colonial history.Roth, David M., editor, and Grenier, Judith Arnold, associate editor, "Connecticut History and Culture: An Hist ...

* 1936: '' A Constitutional History of the United States'' by Andrew C. McLaughlin * 1937: '' The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865'' by Van Wyck Brooks * 1938: '' The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900'' by

Paul Herman Buck Paul Herman Buck (August 25, 1899 – December 23, 1978) was an American historian. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1938 and became the first Provost of Harvard University in 1945. Biography Buck was born in Ohio. He received a Bachelo ...

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

1940s

* 1940: '' Abraham Lincoln: The War Years'' by

Carl Sandburg Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg ...

* 1941: '' The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860'' by

Marcus Lee Hansen Marcus Lee Hansen (December 8, 1892 – May 11, 1938) was an American historian, who won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for History for '' The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860'' (1940). Biography Hansen was born in Neenah, Wisconsin.Brennan & Clarage (199 ...

* 1942: '' Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865'' by

* 1943: ''

Paul Revere and the World He Lived In ''Paul Revere and the World He Lived In'' is a nonfiction history book by Esther Forbes. It won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for History The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prize ...

'' by

Esther Forbes Esther Louise Forbes (; June 28, 1891 – August 12, 1967) was an American novelist, historian and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. She was the first woman elected to membership in the American Antiquar ...

* 1944: '' The Growth of American Thought'' by

Merle Curti Merle Eugene Curti (September 15, 1897 – March 9, 1996) was a leading American historian, who taught many graduate students at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin, and was a leader in developing the fields of social history a ...

* 1945: ''Unfinished Business'' by Stephen Bonsal * 1946: '' The Age of Jackson'' by

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (; born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a s ...

* 1947: '' Scientists Against Time'' by

James Phinney Baxter III James Phinney Baxter III (February 15, 1893 in Portland, Maine – June 17, 1975 in Williamstown, Massachusetts) was an American historian, educator, and academic, who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book ''Scientists Against Time ...

* 1948: '' Across the Wide Missouri'' by Bernard DeVoto * 1949: '' The Disruption of American Democracy'' by

Roy Franklin Nichols Roy Franklin Nichols (March 3, 1896 – January 12, 1973) was an American historian, who won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for History for '' The Disruption of American Democracy''. Biography Nichols was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Franklin Coriell a ...

1950s

* 1950: '' Art and Life in America'' by Oliver W. Larkin * 1951: '' The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840'' by R. Carlyle Buley * 1952: '' The Uprooted'' by

Oscar Handlin Oscar Handlin (1915–2011) was an American historian. As a professor of history at Harvard University for over 50 years, he directed 80 PhD dissertations and helped promote social and ethnic history, virtually inventing the field of immigrat ...

* 1953: '' The Era of Good Feelings'' by

George Dangerfield George Bubb Dangerfield (28 October 1904 in Newbury, Berkshire – 27 December 1986 in Santa Barbara, California) was a British-born American journalist, historian, and the literary editor of '' Vanity Fair'' from 1933 to 1935. He is known prima ...

* 1954: ''

A Stillness at Appomattox ''A Stillness at Appomattox'' (1953) is a non-fiction history book written by Bruce Catton.

'' by Bruce Catton * 1955: '' Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History'' by Paul Horgan * 1956: '' The Age of Reform'' by

Richard Hofstadter Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier histo ...

* 1957: '' Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920'' by

George F. Kennan George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly hist ...

* 1958: '' Banks and Politics in America'' by Bray Hammond * 1959: '' The Republican Era: 1869–1901'' by

Leonard D. White Leonard Dupee White (January 17, 1891 – February 23, 1958) was an American historian who specialized in public administration in the United States. His technique was to study administration in the context of grouped U.S. presidential terms. A f ...

and Jean Schneider

1960s

* 1960: '' In the Days of McKinley'' by

* 1961: '' Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference'' by Herbert Feis * 1962: '' The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766'' by

Lawrence H. Gipson Lawrence Henry Gipson (December 7, 1880 – September 26, 1971) was an American historian, who won the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for History for volumes of his magnum opus, the fifteen-volume history of "The British Empire Be ...

* 1963: '' Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878'' by

Constance McLaughlin Green Constance McLaughlin Winsor Green (August 21, 1897 in Ann Arbor, Michigan – December 5, 1975 in Annapolis, Maryland) was an American historian. She who won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for '' Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878'' ...

* 1964: '' Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town'' by

Sumner Chilton Powell Sumner Chilton Powell (October 2, 1924 in Northampton, Massachusetts – July 8, 1993 in Colora, Maryland) was an American historian and history teacher at the Choate School, a college-prep boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut. He attend ...

* 1965: '' The Greenback Era'' by Irwin Unger * 1966: '' The Life of the Mind in America'' by

Perry Miller Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller (February 25, 1905 – December 9, 1963) was an American intellectual historian and a co-founder of the field of American Studies. Miller specialized in the history of early America, and took an active role in a revi ...

* 1967: '' Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West'' by William H. Goetzmann * 1968: ''

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution ''The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution'' is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning book of history by Bernard Bailyn. It is considered one of the most influential studies of the American Revolution published during the 20th century. Backg ...

'' by

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

1970s

* 1970: '' Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department'' by

Dean Acheson Dean Gooderham Acheson (pronounced ; April 11, 1893October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer. As the 51st U.S. Secretary of State, he set the foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration from 1949 to 1953. He was also Truma ...

* 1971: '' Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom'' by James MacGregor Burns * 1972: '' Neither Black nor White'' by Carl N. Degler * 1973: '' People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization'' by

Michael Kammen Michael Gedaliah Kammen (October 25, 1936 – November 29, 2013) was an American professor of American cultural history in the Department of History at Cornell University. At the time of his death, he held the title "Newton C. Farr professor emeri ...

* 1974: '' The Americans: The Democratic Experience'' by

Daniel J. Boorstin Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in ...

* 1975: '' Jefferson and His Time'' by Dumas Malone * 1976: ''

Lamy of Santa Fe ''Lamy of Santa Fe'' is a 1975 biography of Catholic Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy, written by American author Paul Horgan and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for History The Pulitzer Prize for Histo ...

'' by Paul Horgan * 1977: '' The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861'' by David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher) * 1978: '' The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business'' by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. * 1979: '' The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics'' by Don E. Fehrenbacher

1980s

Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year. * 1980: '' Been in the Storm So Long'' by Leon F. Litwack ** '' The Plains Across'' by John B. Unruh ** ''The Urban Crucible'' by

Gary B. Nash Gary Baring Nash (July 27, 1933 – July 29, 2021) was an American historian. He concentrated on the Revolutionary period, slavery and race, as well as the formation of political communities in Philadelphia and other cities. Life and education Na ...

* 1981: '' American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876'' by

Lawrence A. Cremin Lawrence Arthur Cremin (October 31, 1925 – September 4, 1990) was an educational historian and administrator. Biography Cremin attended Townsend Harris High School in Queens, and then received his B.A. and M.A. from City College of New York. ...

** ''A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England'' by Lyle Koehler ** ''Over Here: The First World War and American Society'' by David M. Kennedy * 1982: '' Mary Chesnut's Civil War'' by

C. Vann Woodward Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999) was an American historian who focused primarily on the American South and race relations. He was long a supporter of the approach of Charles A. Beard, stressing the influence of unse ...

** ''Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945'' by

Akira Iriye is a historian of diplomatic history, international, and transnational history. He taught at University of Chicago and Harvard University until his retirement in 2005. In 1988 he served as president of the American Historical Association, the ...

** ''White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History'' by George M. Fredrickson * 1983: '' The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790'' by Rhys L. Isaac ** ''Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South'' by Bertram Wyatt-Brown ** ''The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789'' by

Robert Middlekauff Robert Lawrence Middlekauff (July 5, 1929 – March 10, 2021) was a professor of colonial and early United States history at the University of California, Berkeley. Career In 1983, Middlekauff became the President of Huntington Library, Art ...

* 1984: no award given * 1985: '' Prophets of Regulation'' by

Thomas K. McCraw Thomas Kincaid McCraw (September 11, 1940 – November 3, 2012) was an American business historian and Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, who won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for History for '' Prophets o ...

** ''The Crucible of Race'' by Joel Williamson ** ''The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians'' by

Francis Paul Prucha Francis Paul Prucha (January 4, 1921 – July 30, 2015) was an American historian, professor ''emeritus'' of history at Marquette University, and specialist in the relationship between the United States and Native Americans. His work, ''The Great ...

* 1986: '' ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age'' by Walter A. McDougall ** ''Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America'' by Kerby A. Miller ** ''Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present'' by

Jacqueline Jones Jacqueline Jones (born 17 June 1948) is an American social historian. She held the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas from 2008 to 2017 and is Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. ...

** ''Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution'' by Forrest McDonald * 1987: '' Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution'' by

** ''Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference'' by

David Garrow David Jeffries Garrow (born May 11, 1953) is an American author and historian. He wrote the book ''Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference'' (1986), which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biogr ...

** ''Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945'' by

David Eisenhower Dwight David Eisenhower II (born March 31, 1948) is an American author, public policy fellow, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and eponym of the U.S. presidential retreat Camp David. He is the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenho ...

* 1988: '' The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876'' by Robert V. Bruce ** ''The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System'' by Charles E. Rosenberg ** '' The Fall of the House of Labor'' by David Montgomery * 1989: '' Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era'' by

James M. McPherson James Munro McPherson (born October 11, 1936) is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for '' Battle Cry ...

* 1989: '' Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963'' by Taylor Branch ** ''

A Bright Shining Lie ''A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam'' (1988) is a book by Neil Sheehan, a former '' New York Times'' reporter, about U.S. Army lieutenant colonel John Paul Vann (killed in action) and the United States' involvement in ...

: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam'' by Neil Sheehan ** ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877'' by Eric Foner

1990s

* 1990: '' In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines'' by Stanley Karnow ** ''American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870–1970'' by

Thomas P. Hughes Thomas Parke Hughes (September 13, 1923 – February 3, 2014) was an American historian of technology. He was an emeritus professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting professor at MIT and Stanford. He received his Ph.D. ...

** ''The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I'' by

Hugh Honour Hugh Honour FRSL (26 September 1927 – 19 May 2016) was a British art historian, known for his writing partnership with John Fleming. Their ''A World History of Art'' (a.k.a. ''The Visual Arts: A History''), is now in its seventh edition and H ...

* 1991: ''

A Midwife's Tale Martha Moore Ballard (February 9, 1735 – June 9, 1812) was an American midwife and healer. Unusually for the time, Ballard kept a diary with thousands of entries over nearly three decades, which has provided historians with invaluable insi ...

'' by

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor at Harvard University. Her approach to history has been described as a tribute ...

** ''America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink'' by Kenneth M. Stampp ** ''Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939'' by

Lizabeth Cohen Lizabeth Cohen is the current Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the History Department at Harvard University, as well as a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. From 2011-2018 she served as the Dean of Harvard's ...

** ''The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy'' by Hugh David Graham * 1992: '' The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties'' by Mark E. Neely, Jr. ** ''A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs'' by

Theodore Draper Theodore H. Draper (September 11, 1912 – February 21, 2006) was an American historian and political writer. Draper is best known for the 14 books he completed during his life, including work regarded as seminal on the formative period of the Am ...

** ''Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West'' by

William Cronon William Cronon (born September 11, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an environmental historian and the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madi ...

** ''Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century'' by John Frederick Martin ** ''The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815'' by Richard White * 1993: '' The Radicalism of the American Revolution'' by Gordon S. Wood ** '' Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America'' by

Garry Wills Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, political philosopher, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Genera ...

** ''The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction'' by Edward L. Ayers * 1994: no award given ** ''Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK'' by

Gerald Posner Gerald Leo Posner (born May 20, 1954) is an American investigative journalist and author of thirteen books, including ''Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK'' (1993), which explores the John F. Kennedy assassination, and ...

** ''Crime and Punishment in American History'' by Lawrence M. Friedman ** ''William Faulkner and Southern History'' by Joel Williamson * 1995: '' No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II'' by

Doris Kearns Goodwin Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including ''Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream ...

** ''Lincoln in American Memory'' by Merrill D. Peterson ** ''Stories of Scottsboro'' by James Goodman * 1996: ''William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic'' by Alan Taylor ** ''Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb'' by Richard Rhodes ** ''The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic'' by Lance Banning * 1997: ''Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution'' by Jack N. Rakove ** ''Founding Mothers and Fathers'' by Mary Beth Norton ** ''The Battle for Christmas'' by Stephen Nissenbaum * 1998: ''Summer for the Gods, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion'' by Edward Larson, Edward J. Larson ** ''Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America'' by J. Anthony Lukas ** ''Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History'' by Rogers Smith * 1999: ''Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898'' by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (historian), Mike Wallace ** ''In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival'' by Paula Mitchell Marks ** ''This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age'' by William E. Burrows

2000s

* 2000: ''Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945'' by David M. Kennedy ** ''The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America'' by Kevin Phillips (political commentator), Kevin Phillips ** ''Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier'' by James H. Merrell * 2001: ''Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation'' by Joseph Ellis, Joseph J. Ellis ** ''The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States'' by Alexander Keyssar ** ''Way Out There in the Blue'' by Frances FitzGerald (journalist), Frances FitzGerald * 2002: ''The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America'' by Louis Menand ** ''Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation'' by J. William Harris ** ''Facing East from Indian Country, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America'' by Daniel K. Richter * 2003: ''An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943'' by Rick Atkinson ** ''At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America'' by Philip Dray ** ''Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America'' by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz * 2004: ''A Nation Under Our Feet'' by Steven Hahn ** ''Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center'' by Daniel Okrent ** ''They Marched into Sunlight, They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967'' by David Maraniss * 2005: ''Washington's Crossing (book), Washington's Crossing'' by David Hackett Fischer ** ''Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age'' by Kevin Boyle (historian), Kevin Boyle ** ''Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2'' by Michael O'Brien (historian), Michael O'Brien * 2006: ''Polio: An American Story'' by David Oshinsky ** ''New York Burning'' by Jill Lepore ** ''The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln'' by Sean Wilentz * 2007: ''The Race Beat'' by Gene Roberts (journalist), Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff ** ''Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War'' by Nathaniel Philbrick ** ''Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005'' by James T. Campbell * 2008: ''What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848'' by Daniel Walker Howe ** ''The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War'' by David Halberstam ** ''Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power'' by Robert Dallek * 2009: ''The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family'' by Annette Gordon-Reed ** ''The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s'' by G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot ** ''This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War'' by Drew Gilpin Faust

2010s

* 2010: ''Lords of Finance, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World'' by Liaquat Ahamed ** ''Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815'' by Gordon S. Wood ** ''Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City'' by Greg Grandin * 2011: ''The Fiery Trial, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery'' by Eric Foner ** ''Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South'' by Stephanie McCurry ** ''Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston'' by Michael J. Rawson * 2012: ''Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention'' by Manning Marable ** ''Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860'' by Anne F. Hyde ** ''The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden'' by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan ** ''Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America'' by Richard White * 2013: ''Embers of War, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam'' by Fredrik Logevall ** ''The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675'' by

** ''Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History'' by John Fabian Witt * 2014: ''The Internal Enemy, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832'' by Alan Taylor ** ''A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America'' by

** ''Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety'' by Eric Schlosser * 2015: ''Encounters at the Heart of the World, Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People'' by Elizabeth A. Fenn ** ''Empire of Cotton: A Global History'' by Sven Beckert ** ''An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America'' by Nick Bunker * 2016: ''Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America'' by T. J. Stiles ** ''Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War'' by Brian Matthew Jordan ** ''Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor'' by James M. Scott ** ''The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency'' by Annie Jacobsen * 2017: ''Blood in the Water (book), Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy'' by Heather Ann Thompson ** ''Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It'' by Larrie Ferreiro, Larrie D. Ferreiro ** ''New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America'' by Wendy Warren * 2018: ''The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea'' by Jack E. Davis ** ''Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics'' by Kim Phillips-Fein ** ''Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America'' by Steven J. Ross (professor), Steven J. Ross * 2019: ''Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom'' by David W. Blight ** ''American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic'' by Victoria Johnson ** ''Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition'' by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

2020s

*2020: ''Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America'' by W. Caleb McDaniel **''Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership'' by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor **''The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America'' by Greg Grandin *2021: ''Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America'' by Marcia Chatelain **''The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America'' by Eric Cervini **''The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West'' by Megan Kate Nelson *2022: Two winners: ''Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America'' by Nicole Eustace, and ''Cuba: An American History'' by Ada Ferrer **''Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction'' by Kate Masur

Repeat winners

Five people have won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice. *

, 1942 for ''Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865'' and 1960 for ''In the Days of McKinley'' *

, 1968 for ''The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution'' and 1987 for ''Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution'' * Paul Horgan, 1955 for ''Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History'' and 1976 for ''Lamy of Santa Fe'' * Alan Taylor, 1996 for ''William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic'' and 2014 for ''The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832'' * Don E. Fehrenbacher completed ''The Impending Crisis'' by David Potter, for which Potter posthumously won the 1977 prize, and won the 1979 prize himself for ''The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics''.

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