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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 1962.

Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.[2]

Winners[]

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.

1920s[]

1930s[]

1940s[]

1950s[]

1960s[]

1970s[]

  • 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

1980s[]

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
  • 1984: no award given
  • 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
  • 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

1990s[]

  • 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
  • 1994: no award given
    • 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
  • 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

2000s[]

2010s[]

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

2020s[]

  • 2021: Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
    • The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini
    • The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West, by

Repeat winners[]

Five people have won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice.

  • Margaret Leech, 1942 for Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 and 1960 for In the Days of McKinley
  • Bernard Bailyn, 1968 for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and 1987 for Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
  • Paul Horgan, 1955 for Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History and 1976 for Lamy of Santa Fe
  • Alan Taylor, 1996 for William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic and 2014 for The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832[9]
  • 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.

See also[]

  • [[List of history awards]

References[]

  1. ^ "1917 Winners". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 2013-12-19.
  2. ^ a b "History". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
  3. ^ "History". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  4. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  5. ^ "History". Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  6. ^ "2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners". www.pulitzer.org.
  7. ^ "2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners". www.pulitzer.org.
  8. ^ "Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, by W. Caleb McDaniel (Oxford University Press)". pulitzer.org. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  9. ^ Husna Haq (2014-04-14). "Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch' – a novel that has charmed critics and readers alike – wins the 2014 Pulitzer Prize". CSMonitor.com. Retrieved 2014-04-22.

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