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