Pulitzer Prizes — History

• Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal

  2025PulitzerHistory
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  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
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  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
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  Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel

  2020PulitzerHistory
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  Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight

  2019PulitzerHistory
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  The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis

  2018PulitzerHistory
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  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
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  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
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  Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

  2012PulitzerHistory
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  The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner

  2011PulitzerHistory
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  Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

  2010PulitzerHistory
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  The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

  2009PulitzerHistory
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  What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe

  2008PulitzerHistory
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  The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff

  2007PulitzerHistory
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  Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky

  2006PulitzerHistory
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  Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer

  2005PulitzerHistory
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  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
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  The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand

  2002PulitzerHistory
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  Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis

  2001PulitzerHistory
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  Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy

  2000PulitzerHistory
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  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
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  Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove

  1997PulitzerHistory
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  William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor

  1996PulitzerHistory
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  No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin

  1995PulitzerHistory
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  The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

  1993PulitzerHistory
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  The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely

  1992PulitzerHistory
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  A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  1991PulitzerHistory
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  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
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  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
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  Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

  1987PulitzerHistory
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  ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall

  1986PulitzerHistory
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  Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw

  1985PulitzerHistory
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  The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac

  1983PulitzerHistory
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  Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward

  1982PulitzerHistory
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  American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin

  1981PulitzerHistory
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  Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack

  1980PulitzerHistory
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  The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher

  1979PulitzerHistory
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  The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler

  1978PulitzerHistory
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  The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 by David M. Potter

  1977PulitzerHistory
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  Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan

  1976PulitzerHistory
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  Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V by Dumas Malone

  1975PulitzerHistory
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  The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin

  1974PulitzerHistory
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  People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen

  1973PulitzerHistory
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  Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler

  1972PulitzerHistory
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  Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns

  1971PulitzerHistory
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  Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson

  1970PulitzerHistory
• Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy

  1969PulitzerHistory
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  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
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  The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War by Perry Miller

  1966PulitzerHistory
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  The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879 by Irwin Unger

  1965PulitzerHistory
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  Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell

  1964PulitzerHistory
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  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
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  Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis

  1961PulitzerHistory
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  In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech

  1960PulitzerHistory
• The Republican Era: 1869-1901 by Leonard D. White

  1959PulitzerHistory
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  Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond

  1958PulitzerHistory
• Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan

  1957PulitzerHistory
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  The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter

  1956PulitzerHistory
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  Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan

  1955PulitzerHistory
• A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton

  1954PulitzerHistory
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  The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield

  1953PulitzerHistory
• The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin

  1952PulitzerHistory
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  The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley

  1951PulitzerHistory
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  Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin

  1950PulitzerHistory
• The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols

  1949PulitzerHistory
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  Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard Devoto

  1948PulitzerHistory
• Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter 3rd

  1947PulitzerHistory
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  The Age of Jackson by Arthur Meier Schlesinger

  1946PulitzerHistory
• Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal

  1945PulitzerHistory
• The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti

  1944PulitzerHistory
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  Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes

  1943PulitzerHistory
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  Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech

  1942PulitzerHistory
• The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen

  1941PulitzerHistory
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  Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg

  1940PulitzerHistory
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  A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott

  1939PulitzerHistory
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  The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck

  1938PulitzerHistory
• The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks

  1937PulitzerHistory
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  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
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  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
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  The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick

  1921PulitzerHistory
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  The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith

  1920PulitzerHistory
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  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