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| J. J. Jusserand, winner of the first Pulitzer for History, in 1917 |
Finalists have been announced in the History category since 1980. These are indicated with an "F"; winners in the same years are designated with a "W."
No award was given in 1919, 1984, and 1994; two prizes were given in 1989.
You can read more about some of the more recent winners and finalists at the Pulitzer site.
1917: With Americans of Past and Present Days (Jean Jules Jusserand)
1918: A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (James Ford Rhodes)
1919: No award given
1920: The War with Mexico (Justin H. Smith)
1921: The Victory at Sea (William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick)
1922: The Founding of New England (James Truslow Adams)
1923: The Supreme Court in United States History (Charles Warren)
1924: The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation (Charles Howard McIlwain)
1925: History of the American Frontier (Frederic L. Paxson)
1926: A History of the United States (Edward Channing [5 of 6 Vol])
1927: Pinckney's Treaty (Samuel Flagg Bemis)
1928: Main Currents in American Thought (Vernon Louis Parrington)
1929: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 (Fred Albert Shannon)
1930: The War of Independence (Claude H. Van Tyne)
1931: The Coming of the War, 1914 (Bernadotte E. Schmitt)
1932: My Experiences in the World War (John J. Pershing)
1933: The Significance of Sections in American History (Frederick J. Turner)
1934: The People's Choice (Herbert Agar)
1935: The Colonial Period of American History (Charles McLean Andrews)
1936: A Constitutional History of the United States (Andrew C. McLaughlin)
1937: The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 (Van Wyck Brooks)
1938: The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 (Paul Herman Buck)
1939: A History of American Magazines (Frank Luther Mott)
1940: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (Carl Sandburg)
1941: The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 (Marcus Lee Hansen)
1942: Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 (Margaret Leech)
1943: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (Esther Forbes)
1944: The Growth of American Thought (Merle Curti)
1945: Unfinished Business (Stephen Bonsal)
1946: The Age of Jackson (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
1947: Scientists Against Time (James Phinney Baxter III)
1948: Across the Wide Missouri (Bernard DeVoto)
1949: The Disruption of American Democracy (Roy Franklin Nichols)
1950: Art and Life in America (Oliver W. Larkin)
1951: The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840 (R. Carlyle Buley)
1952: The Uprooted (Oscar Handlin)
1953: The Era of Good Feelings (George Dangerfield)
1954: A Stillness at Appomattox (Bruce Catton)
1955: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History (Paul Horgan)
1956: The Age of Reform (Richard Hofstadter)
1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 (George F. Kennan)
1958: Banks and Politics in America (Bray Hammond)
1959: The Republican Era: 1869–1901 (Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider)
1960: In the Days of McKinley (Margaret Leech)
1961: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference (Herbert Feis)
1962: The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 (Lawrence H. Gipson)
1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 (Constance McLaughlin Green)
1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town (Sumner Chilton Powell)
1965: The Greenback Era (Irwin Unger)
1966: The Life of the Mind in America (Perry Miller)
1967: Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West (William H. Goetzmann)
1968: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Bernard Bailyn)
1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment (Leonard W. Levy)
1970: Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (Dean Acheson)
1971: Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom (James MacGregor Burns)
1972: Neither Black nor White (Carl N. Degler)
1973: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization (Michael Kammen)
1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience (Daniel J. Boorstin)
1975: Jefferson and His Time (Dumas Malone)
1976: Lamy of Santa Fe (Paul Horgan)
1977: The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 (David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)
1978: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.)
1979: The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (Don E. Fehrenbacher)
1980: (W) Been in the Storm So Long (Leon F. Litwack)
1980: (F) The Plains Across (John B. Unruh)
1980: (F) The Urban Crucible (Gary B. Nash)
1981: (W) American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 (Lawrence A. Cremin)
1981: (F) A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England (Lyle Koehler)
1981: (F) Over Here: The First World War and American Society (David M. Kennedy)
1982: (W) Mary Chesnut's Civil War (C. Vann Woodward)
1982: (F) Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945 (Akira Iriye)
1982: (F) White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History (George M. Frederickson)
1983: (W) The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 (Rhys L. Isaac)
1983: (F) Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South (Bertram Wyatt-Brown)
1983: (F) The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Robert L. Middlekauff)
1984: No award given
1985: (W) Prophets of Regulation (Thomas K. McCraw)
1985: (F) The Crucible of Race (Joel Williamson)
1985: (F) The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (Francis Paul Prucha)
1986: (W) ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (Walter A. McDougall)
1986: (F) Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (Kerby A. Miller)
1986: (F) Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present (Jacqueline Jones)
1986: (F) Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (Forrest McDonald)
1987: (W) Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (Bernard Bailyn)
1987: (F) Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (David J. Garrow)
1987: (F) Eisenhower: At War, 1943-1945 (David Eisenhower)
1988: (W) The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 (Robert V. Bruce)
1988: (F) The Fall of the House of Labor (David Montgomery)
1988: (F) The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System (Charles E. Rosenberg)
1989: (W) Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (James M. McPherson) (two winners)
1989: (W) Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963 (Taylor Branch) (two winners)
1989: (F) A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Neil Sheehan)
1989: (F) Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Eric Foner)
1990: (W) In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines (Stanley Karnow)
1990: (F) American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970 (Thomas P. Hughes)
1990: (F) The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I (Hugh Honour)
1991: (W) A Midwife's Tale (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich)
1991: (F) America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (Kenneth M. Stampp)
1991: (F) Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (Lizabeth Cohen)
1991: (F) The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy (Hugh David Graham)
1992: (W) The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (Mark E. Neely, Jr.)
1992: (F) A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs (Theodore Draper)
1992: (F) Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (William Cronon)
1992: (F) Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century (John Frederick Martin)
1992: (F) The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Richard White)
1993: (W) The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Gordon S. Wood)
1993: (F) Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (Garry Wills)
1993: (F) The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (Edward L. Ayers)
1994: No award given; the Finalists were:
1994: (F) Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (Gerald Posner)
1994: (F) Crime and Punishment in American History (Lawrence M. Friedman)
1994: (F) William Faulkner and Southern History (Joel Williamson)
1995: (W) No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
1995: (F) Lincoln in American Memory (Merrill D. Peterson)
1995: (F) Stories of Scottsboro (James Goodman)
1996: (W) William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Alan Taylor)
1996: (F) Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Richard Rhodes)
1996: (F) The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic (Lance Banning)
1997: (W) Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Jack N. Rakove)
1997: (F) Founding Mothers and Fathers (Mary Beth Norton)
1997: (F) The Battle for Christmas (Stephen Nissenbaum)
1998: (W) Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (Edward J. Larson)
1998: (F) Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America (J. Anthony Lukas)
1998: (F) Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Rogers M. Smith)
1999: (W) Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace)
1999: (F) In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival (Paula Mitchell Marks)
1999: (F) The New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (William E. Burrows)
2000: (W) Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (David M. Kennedy)
2000: (F) Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (James H. Merrell)
2000: (F) The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America (Kevin Phillips)
2001: (W) Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Joseph J. Ellis)
2001: (F) The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (Alexander Keyssar)
2001: (F) Way Out There in the Blue (Frances FitzGerald)
2002: (W) The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (Louis Menand)
2002: (F) Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation (J. William Harris)
2002: (F) Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Daniel K. Richter)
2003: (W) An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943 (Rick Atkinson)
2003: (F) At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Philip Dray)
2003: (F) Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America (Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz)
2004: (W) A Nation Under Our Feet (Steven Hahn)
2004: (F) Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center (Daniel Okrent)
2004: (F) They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 (David Maraniss)
2005: (W) Washington's Crossing (David Hackett Fischer)
2005: (F) Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (Kevin Boyle)
2005: (F) Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2 (Michael O'Brien)
2006: (W) Polio: An American Story (David Oshinsky)
2006: (F) New York Burning (Jill Lepore)
2006: (F) The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (Sean Wilentz)
2007: (W) The Race Beat (Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff)
2007: (F) Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Nathaniel Philbrick)
2007: (F) Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 (James T. Campbell)
2008: (W) What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848 (Daniel Walker Howe)
2008: (F) Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (Robert Dallek)
2008: (F) The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (David Halberstam)
2009: (W) The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Annette Gordon-Reed)
2009: (F) The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the (G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot)
2009: (F) This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Drew Gilpin Faust)
2010: (W) Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Liaquat Ahamed)
2010: (F) Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Gordon S. Wood)
2010: (F) Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Greg Grandin)
2011: (W) The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (Eric Foner)
2011: (F) Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Stephanie McCurry)
2011: (F) Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston (Michael J. Rawson)
2012: (W) Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Manning Marable)
2012: (F) Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (Richard White)
2012: (F) Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (Anne F. Hyde)
2012: (F) The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden (Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan)
2013: (W) Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Fredrik Logevall)
2013: (F) Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History (John Fabian Witt)
2013: (F) The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (Bernard Bailyn)
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