Pulitzer Prizes — History Home › Pulitzer Prizes › History Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal 2025PulitzerHistory Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Edda L. Fields-Black 2025PulitzerHistory No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones 2024PulitzerHistory Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie 2023PulitzerHistory Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer 2022PulitzerHistory Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace 2022PulitzerHistory Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain 2021PulitzerHistory Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel 2020PulitzerHistory Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight 2019PulitzerHistory The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis 2018PulitzerHistory Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson 2017PulitzerHistory Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles 2016PulitzerHistory Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn 2015PulitzerHistory The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor 2014PulitzerHistory Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall 2013PulitzerHistory Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable 2012PulitzerHistory The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner 2011PulitzerHistory Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed 2010PulitzerHistory The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed 2009PulitzerHistory What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe 2008PulitzerHistory The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff 2007PulitzerHistory Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky 2006PulitzerHistory Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer 2005PulitzerHistory A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn 2004PulitzerHistory An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson 2003PulitzerHistory The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand 2002PulitzerHistory Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis 2001PulitzerHistory Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy 2000PulitzerHistory Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace 1999PulitzerHistory Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson 1998PulitzerHistory Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove 1997PulitzerHistory William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor 1996PulitzerHistory No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin 1995PulitzerHistory The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood 1993PulitzerHistory The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely 1992PulitzerHistory A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1991PulitzerHistory In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow 1990PulitzerHistory Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch 1989PulitzerHistory Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson 1989PulitzerHistory The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce 1988PulitzerHistory Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn 1987PulitzerHistory ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall 1986PulitzerHistory Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw 1985PulitzerHistory The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac 1983PulitzerHistory Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward 1982PulitzerHistory American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin 1981PulitzerHistory Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack 1980PulitzerHistory The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher 1979PulitzerHistory The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler 1978PulitzerHistory The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 by David M. Potter 1977PulitzerHistory Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan 1976PulitzerHistory Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V by Dumas Malone 1975PulitzerHistory The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin 1974PulitzerHistory People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen 1973PulitzerHistory Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler 1972PulitzerHistory Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns 1971PulitzerHistory Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson 1970PulitzerHistory Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy 1969PulitzerHistory The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn 1968PulitzerHistory Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann 1967PulitzerHistory The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War by Perry Miller 1966PulitzerHistory The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879 by Irwin Unger 1965PulitzerHistory Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell 1964PulitzerHistory Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green 1963PulitzerHistory The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson 1962PulitzerHistory Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis 1961PulitzerHistory In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech 1960PulitzerHistory The Republican Era: 1869-1901 by Leonard D. White 1959PulitzerHistory Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond 1958PulitzerHistory Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan 1957PulitzerHistory The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter 1956PulitzerHistory Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan 1955PulitzerHistory A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton 1954PulitzerHistory The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield 1953PulitzerHistory The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin 1952PulitzerHistory The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley 1951PulitzerHistory Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin 1950PulitzerHistory The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols 1949PulitzerHistory Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard Devoto 1948PulitzerHistory Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter 3rd 1947PulitzerHistory The Age of Jackson by Arthur Meier Schlesinger 1946PulitzerHistory Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal 1945PulitzerHistory The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti 1944PulitzerHistory Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes 1943PulitzerHistory Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech 1942PulitzerHistory The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen 1941PulitzerHistory Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg 1940PulitzerHistory A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott 1939PulitzerHistory The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck 1938PulitzerHistory The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks 1937PulitzerHistory A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin 1936PulitzerHistory The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews 1935PulitzerHistory The People's Choice by Herbert Agar 1934PulitzerHistory The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner 1933PulitzerHistory My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing 1932PulitzerHistory The Coming of the War 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt 1931PulitzerHistory The Founding of the American Republic, Volume II: The War of Independence: American Phase by Claude H. Van Tyne 1930PulitzerHistory The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon 1929PulitzerHistory Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. by Vernon Louis Parrington 1928PulitzerHistory Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis 1927PulitzerHistory A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence, 1849-1865 by Edward Channing 1926PulitzerHistory History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson 1925PulitzerHistory The American Revolution -- A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain 1924PulitzerHistory The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren 1923PulitzerHistory The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams 1922PulitzerHistory The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick 1921PulitzerHistory The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith 1920PulitzerHistory History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes 1918PulitzerHistory With Americans of Past and Present Days by His Excellency J.J. Jusserand 1917PulitzerHistory
