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The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by
General Non-Fiction prize
, from 1962.
Finalists have been announced since 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]
1910s–1970s
1980s
Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1980 | Leon F. Litwack
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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery | Winner | |
Gary B. Nash | The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution | Finalist | ||
John B. Unruh | The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–60 | Finalist | ||
1981 | Lawrence A. Cremin | American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 | Winner | [12] |
David M. Kennedy | Over Here: The First World War and American Society | Finalist | ||
Lyle Koehler | A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England | Finalist | ||
1982 | C. Vann Woodward | Mary Chesnut's Civil War | Winner | |
George M. Fredrickson | White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History | Finalist | ||
Akira Iriye | Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945 | Finalist | ||
1983 | Rhys L. Isaac
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The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 | Winner | |
Robert Middlekauff | The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 | Finalist | ||
Bertram Wyatt-Brown | Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South | Finalist | ||
1984 | No Award presented | |||
1985 | Thomas K. McCraw | Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn | Winner | |
Francis Paul Prucha | The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians | Finalist | ||
Joel Williamson | The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation | Finalist | ||
1986 | Walter A. McDougall | ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
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Winner | |
Jacqueline Jones | Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present | Finalist | ||
Forrest McDonald | Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution | Finalist | ||
Kerby A. Miller | Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America | Finalist | ||
1987 | Bernard Bailyn | Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution | Winner | |
David Eisenhower | Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945 | Finalist | ||
David Garrow | Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference | Finalist | ||
1988 | Robert V. Bruce | The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 | Winner | |
David Montgomery | The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925 | Finalist | ||
Charles E. Rosenberg | The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System | Finalist | ||
1989 | Taylor Branch | Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963
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Winner | |
James M. McPherson | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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Winner | ||
Eric Foner | Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution – 1863–1877
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Finalist | ||
Neil Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | Finalist |
1990s
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1990 | Stanley Karnow | In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines | Winner | |
Hugh Honour | The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I | Finalist | ||
Thomas P. Hughes | American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870–1970 | Finalist | ||
1991 | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | A Midwife's Tale | Winner | |
Lizabeth Cohen | Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 | Finalist | ||
Hugh Davis Graham | The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy | Finalist | ||
Kenneth M. Stampp | America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink | Finalist | ||
1992 | Mark E. Neely, Jr.
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The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties | Winner | |
William Cronon | Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West | Finalist | ||
Theodore Draper | A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs | Finalist | ||
John Frederick Martin | Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century | Finalist | ||
Richard White | The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 | Finalist | ||
1993 | Gordon S. Wood | The Radicalism of the American Revolution | Winner | |
Edward L. Ayers | The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction | Finalist | ||
Garry Wills | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America | Finalist | ||
1994 | No award given | |||
Lawrence M. Friedman | Crime and Punishment in American History | Finalist | ||
Gerald Posner | Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK | Finalist | ||
Joel Williamson | William Faulkner and Southern History | Finalist | ||
1995 | Doris Kearns Goodwin | No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II | Winner | |
James Goodman | Stories of Scottsboro | Finalist | ||
Merrill D. Peterson | Lincoln in American Memory | Finalist | ||
1996 | Alan Taylor | William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic | Winner | |
Lance Banning | The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic | Finalist | ||
Richard Rhodes | Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb | Finalist | ||
1997 | Jack N. Rakove | Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution | Winner | |
Stephen Nissenbaum | The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday | Finalist | ||
Mary Beth Norton | Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society | Finalist | ||
1998 | Edward J. Larson | Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
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Winner | [13] |
J. Anthony Lukas | Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America | Finalist | ||
Rogers Smith | Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History | Finalist | ||
1999 | Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace | Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 | Winner | [14] |
William E. Burrows | This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age | Finalist | ||
Paula Mitchell Marks | In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival | Finalist |
2000s
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2000 | David M. Kennedy | Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War
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Winner | |
James H. Merrell
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Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier | Finalist | ||
Kevin Phillips | The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America | Finalist | ||
2001 | Joseph J. Ellis
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation | Winner | [15] |
Frances FitzGerald | Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
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Finalist | ||
Alexander Keyssar | The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States | Finalist | ||
2002 | Louis Menand | The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America | Winner | |
J. William Harris | Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation | Finalist | ||
Daniel K. Richter | Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America | Finalist | ||
2003 | Rick Atkinson | An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 | Winner | |
Philip Dray | At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America | Finalist | ||
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz | Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America | Finalist | ||
2004 | Steven Hahn | A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration | Winner | |
David Maraniss | They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 | Finalist | ||
Daniel Okrent | Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center | Finalist | ||
2005 | David Hackett Fischer | Washington's Crossing | Winner | |
Kevin Boyle | Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age | Finalist | ||
Michael O'Brien | Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2 | Finalist | ||
2006 | David Oshinsky | Polio: An American Story | Winner | |
Jill Lepore | New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
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Finalist | ||
Sean Wilentz | The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln | Finalist | ||
2007 | Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff | The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation | Winner | |
James T. Campbell | Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 | Finalist | ||
Nathaniel Philbrick | Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War | Finalist | ||
2008 | Daniel Walker Howe | What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 | Winner | |
Robert Dallek | Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power | Finalist | ||
David Halberstam | The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War | Finalist | ||
2009 | Annette Gordon-Reed | The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family | Winner | [16][17] |
Drew Gilpin Faust | This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War | Finalist | ||
G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot | The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s | Finalist |
2010s
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2010 | Liaquat Ahamed | Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World | Winner | [18] |
Greg Grandin | Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City | Finalist | ||
Gordon S. Wood | Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 | Finalist | ||
2011 | Eric Foner | The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
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Winner | [19] |
Stephanie McCurry | Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South | Finalist | [20] | |
Michael J. Rawson | Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston | Finalist | [21] | |
2012 | Manning Marable | Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention | Winner | [22][23] |
Anne F. Hyde | Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 | Finalist | ||
Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan | The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden | Finalist | ||
Richard White | Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America | Finalist | ||
2013 | Fredrik Logevall | Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam | Winner | [24] |
Bernard Bailyn | The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 | Finalist | ||
John Fabian Witt | Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History | Finalist | ||
2014 | Alan Taylor | The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
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Winner | [25][26] |
Jacqueline Jones | A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America | Finalist | ||
Eric Schlosser | Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety | Finalist | ||
2015 | Elizabeth A. Fenn | Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People | Winner | [27] |
Sven Beckert | Empire of Cotton: A Global History | Finalist | ||
Nick Bunker | An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America | Finalist | ||
2016 | T. J. Stiles | Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America | Winner | [28] |
Annie Jacobsen | The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency | Finalist | ||
Brian Matthew Jordan | Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War | Finalist | ||
James M. Scott | Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor | Finalist | ||
2017 | Heather Ann Thompson | Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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Winner | [29][30] |
Larrie D. Ferreiro | Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It | Finalist | ||
Wendy Warren | New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America | Finalist | ||
2018 | Jack E. Davis | The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea | Winner | [31][32] |
Kim Phillips-Fein | Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics | Finalist | [31] | |
Steven J. Ross | Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America | Finalist | [31] | |
2019 | David W. Blight | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom | Winner | [33][34] |
W. Fitzhugh Brundage | Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition | Finalist | [33] | |
Victoria Johnson | American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic | Finalist | [33] |
2020s
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2020 | W. Caleb McDaniel | Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America | Winner | [35][36][37] |
Greg Grandin | The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
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Finalist | [35] | |
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership | Finalist | [35] | |
2021 | Marcia Chatelain | Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America | Winner | [38][39][40] |
Eric Cervini | The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America | Finalist | [39] | |
Megan Kate Nelson | The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West | Finalist | [39] | |
2022 | Nicole Eustace | Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America | Winner | [41][42][43] |
Ada Ferrer | Cuba: An American History | Winner | [41][42][43] | |
Kate Masur | Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction | Finalist | [41] | |
2023 | Jefferson Cowie | Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power | Winner | [44][45] |
Garrett M. Graff
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Watergate: A New History | Finalist | [44] | |
Michael John Witten | Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America | Finalist | [44] |
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[46]
- 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
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