Pulitzer Prize History Winners — Complete List (1917–2026)
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Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and The Remaking of the American City
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by Bench Ansfield
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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
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by Seth Rockman
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No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
by Jacqueline Jones
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
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by Elliott West
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Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
by Jefferson Cowie
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Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
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by Michael John Witgen
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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
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by Kate Masur
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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
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by Megan Kate Nelson
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The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
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by Eric Cervini
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
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by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
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by Victoria Johnson
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Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
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by Steven J. Ross
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Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
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by Kim Phillips-Fein
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
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by Wendy Warren
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Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It
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by Larrie D. Ferreiro
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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
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by Annie Jacobsen
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Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
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by James M. Scott
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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
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by Nick Bunker
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety
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by Eric Schlosser
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A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
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by Jacqueline Jones
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
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by Bernard Bailyn
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Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
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by John Fabian Witt
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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
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by Richard White
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Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
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by Anne F. Hyde
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Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
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by Stephanie McCurry
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
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by Greg Grandin
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
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by Drew Gilpin Faust
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Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
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by James T. Campbell
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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
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by Sean Wilentz
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Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2
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by Michael O'Brien
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They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October1967
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by David Maraniss
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Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America
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by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
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by Philip Dray
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Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation
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by J. William Harris
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The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
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by Alexander Keyssar
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The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America
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by Kevin Phillips
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Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
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by James H. Merrell
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Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
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by Rogers M. Smith
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The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic
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by Lance Banning
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The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction
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by Edward L. Ayers
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The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
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by Richard White
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Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century
Finalist
by John Frederick Martin
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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by William Cronon
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The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy
Finalist
by Hugh David Graham
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
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by Lizabeth Cohen
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A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England
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by Lyle Koehler
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