Pulitzer Prize for History
The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes 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. 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.[1] The Pulitzer Prize program has also recognized some historical work with its Biography prize, from 1917, and its General Non-Fiction prize, from 1952.
Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.[2]
WinnersEdit
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.[2] Four people have won two each, Margaret Leech, Bernard Bailyn, Paul Horgan and Alan Taylor.
1917: With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand
1918: A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes
1919: no award given
1920: The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith
1921: The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick
1922: The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams
1923: The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren
1924: The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain
1925: History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson
1926: A History of the United States by Edward Channing
1927: Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis
1928: Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington
1929: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 by Fred Albert Shannon
1930: The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne
1931: The Coming of the War, 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt
1932: My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing
1933: The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner
1934: The People's Choice by Herbert Agar
1935: The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews
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
1939: A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott
1940: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg
1941: The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen
1942: Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 by Margaret Leech
1943: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes
1944: The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti
1945: Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal
1946: The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1947: Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III
1948: Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
1949: The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols
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
1953: The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
1954: A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
1955: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan
1956: The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 by George F. Kennan
1958: Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond
1959: The Republican Era: 1869–1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider
1960: In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
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
1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green
1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell
1965: The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger
1966: The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller
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 by Bernard Bailyn
1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy
1970: Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson
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
1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
1975: Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone
1976: Lamy of Santa Fe 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
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
1981: American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin
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
Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945 by Akira Iriye
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
1985: Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
The Crucible of Race by Joel Williamson
The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians by Francis Paul Prucha
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
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 Bernard Bailyn
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow
Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945 by David Eisenhower
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
1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963 by Taylor Branch
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 by Eric Foner
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
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I by Hugh Honour
1991: A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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
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
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
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
The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction by Edward L. Ayers
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner
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
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: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by 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
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
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
Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier by James H. Merrell
2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by 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
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: 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: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 by David Maraniss
2005: 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
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2 by 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 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
2010: 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: 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: 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 Bernard Bailyn
Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History by John Fabian Witt
2014: 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 Jacqueline Jones
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
2015: Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn[3]
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[4]
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: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson[5]
Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It by 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[6]
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
2019: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight[7]
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
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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