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{{Short description|American award for history books}} {{Short description|American award for history books}}
{{Pulitzer}} {{Pulitzer}}
The '''Pulitzer Prize for History''', administered by ], is one of the seven American ] that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the ]. 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.<ref>. The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 2013-12-19.</ref> The Pulitzer Prize program has also recognized some historical work with its ], from 1917, and its ], from 1962. The '''Pulitzer Prize for History''', administered by ], is one of the seven American ] that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the ]. 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.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224024355/http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1917 |date=2015-12-24 }}. The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 2013-12-19.</ref> The Pulitzer Prize program has also recognized some historical work with its ], from 1917, and its ], from 1962.


Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.<ref name=prize/> Finalists have been announced since 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.<ref name=prize/>


==Winners== ==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.<ref name=prize/> Four people have won two each, ], ], ] and ]. 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.<ref name=prize/>


=== 1910s''–''1970s === === 1910s''–''1970s ===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 1917–1979<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=History |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/220 |access-date=20 April 2015 |website=] |publisher= |archive-date=6 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406045457/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/220 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|+Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 1917–1979<ref name=":1" />
!Year !Year
!Author !Author
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|{{Sortname|Bruce|Catton}} |{{Sortname|Bruce|Catton}}
| ''A Stillness at Appomattox'' | '']''
| |
|- |-
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!] !]
|{{sortname|last=McLaughlin Green|first=Constance}} |{{sortname|last=McLaughlin Green|first=Constance}}
| ] | '']''
| |
|- |-
!] !]
|{{sortname|last=Powell|first=Sumner Chilton}} |{{sortname|last=Powell|first=Sumner Chilton}}
| '']'' | '']''
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" /> |<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|- |-
!] !]
|{{Sortname|Irwin|Unger}} |{{Sortname|Irwin|Unger}}
| {{Sort|Greenback Era|'']''}} | {{Sort|Greenback Era|'']''}}
| |
|- |-
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|{{sortname|last=Goetzmann|first=William H.}} |{{sortname|last=Goetzmann|first=William H.}}
| '']'' | '']''
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" /> |<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|- |-
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!] !]
|{{sortname|last=Levy|first=Leonard W.}} |{{sortname|last=Levy|first=Leonard W.}}
| '']'' | '']''
| |
|- |-
!] !]
|{{Sortname|Dean|Acheson}} |{{Sortname|Dean|Acheson}}
| '']'' | '']''
| |
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|{{sortname|last=Degler|first=Carl N.}} |{{sortname|last=Degler|first=Carl N.}}
| '']'' | '']''
| |
|- |-
!] !]
|{{Sortname|Michael|Kammen}} |{{Sortname|Michael|Kammen}}
| '']'' | '']''
|<ref>{{cite web |date=January 1, 2008 |title=Kammen, Michael G. 1936- (Michael Gedaliah Kammen) |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3070000080.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902134009/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3070000080.html |archive-date=September 2, 2017 |access-date=December 9, 2012 |work=Contemporary Authors |publisher={{Subscription required|via=]}}}}</ref> |<ref>{{cite web |date=January 1, 2008 |title=Kammen, Michael G. 1936- (Michael Gedaliah Kammen) |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3070000080.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902134009/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3070000080.html |archive-date=September 2, 2017 |access-date=December 9, 2012 |work=Contemporary Authors }}</ref>
|- |-
!] !]
|{{sortname|last=Boorstin|first=Daniel J.}} |{{sortname|last=Boorstin|first=Daniel J.}}
| {{Sort|Americans: The Democratic Experience|'']''}} | {{Sort|Americans: The Democratic Experience|'']''}}
|<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Boorstin, Daniel J. |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Judaica |publisher={{Subscription required|via=]}} |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2587503326.html |date=January 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114005812/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2587503326.html |archive-date=November 14, 2018 |url-status=dead |accessdate=December 9, 2012}}</ref> |<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Boorstin, Daniel J. |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Judaica |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2587503326.html |date=January 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114005812/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2587503326.html |archive-date=November 14, 2018 |url-status=dead |accessdate=December 9, 2012}}</ref>
|- |-
!] !]
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|{{Sortname|Paul|Horgan}} |{{Sortname|Paul|Horgan}}
| '']'' | '']''
|<ref>{{cite web |date=March 9, 1995 |title=Deaths |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-824446.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416055754/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-824446.html |archive-date=April 16, 2016 |accessdate=December 9, 2012 |work=The Washington Post |publisher={{Subscription required|via=]}}}}</ref> |<ref>{{cite web |date=March 9, 1995 |title=Deaths |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-824446.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416055754/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-824446.html |archive-date=April 16, 2016 |accessdate=December 9, 2012 |work=The Washington Post }}</ref>
|- |-
!] !]
|{{sortname|last=Potter |first=David M.}} (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher) |{{sortname|last=Potter |first=David M.}} (Completed and edited by ])
| {{Sort|Impending Crisis, 1848–1861|'']''}} | {{Sort|Impending Crisis, 1848–1861|'']''}}
| |
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!] !]
|{{sortname|last=Chandler, Jr.|first=Alfred D.}} |{{sortname|last=Chandler, Jr.|first=Alfred D.}}
| {{Sort|Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business|'']''}} | {{Sort|Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business|'']''}}
|<ref>{{cite web |date=May 14, 2007 |title=Noted Economic Historian Alfred Chandler Jr., 88 |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5981455.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311202100/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5981455.html |archive-date=March 11, 2016 |access-date=December 9, 2012 |work=The Washington Post |publisher={{Subscription required|via=]}}}}</ref> |<ref>{{cite web |date=May 14, 2007 |title=Noted Economic Historian Alfred Chandler Jr., 88 |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5981455.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311202100/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5981455.html |archive-date=March 11, 2016 |access-date=December 9, 2012 |work=The Washington Post }}</ref>
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!] !]
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|} |}

===1980s=== ===1980s===
Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year. Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.
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!Title !Title
!Result !Result

|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
!Ref.
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |] ! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Litwack|first=Leon F.}} |{{sortname|last=Litwack|first=Leon F.}}
|'']'' |'']''
|Winner |Winner

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Nash|first=Gary B.}} |{{sortname|last=Nash|first=Gary B.}}
|{{Sort|Urban Crucible|''The Urban Crucible''}} |{{Sort|Urban Crucible|''The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution''}}
|Finalist |Finalist

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Unruh|first=John B.}} |{{sortname|last=Unruh|first=John B.}}
|{{Sort|Plains Across|'']''}} |{{Sort|Plains Across|''] ''}}
|Finalist |Finalist

|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |] ! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Cremin|first=Lawrence A.}} |{{sortname|last=Cremin|first=Lawrence A.}}
|'']'' |'']''
|Winner |Winner

|-
|<ref>{{cite web |date=September 5, 1990 |title=L.A. Cremin, Historian on Education, Dies |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1145999.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120060650/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1145999.html |archive-date=November 20, 2018 |work=The Washington Post}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Kennedy|first=David M.|link=David M. Kennedy (historian)}} |{{sortname|last=Kennedy|first=David M.|link=David M. Kennedy (historian)}}
|''Over Here: The First World War and American Society'' |''Over Here: The First World War and American Society''
|Finalist |Finalist

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Koehler|first=Lyle}} |{{sortname|last=Koehler|first=Lyle}}
|{{Sort|Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England|''A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England''}} |{{Sort|Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England|''A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England''}}
|Finalist |Finalist

|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |] ! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Woodward|first=C. Vann}} |{{sortname|last=Woodward|first=C. Vann}}
|'']'' |'']''
|Winner |Winner

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Fredrickson|first=George M.}} |{{sortname|last=Fredrickson|first=George M.}}
|''White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History'' |''White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History''
|Finalist |Finalist

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Iriye|first=Akira}} |{{sortname|last=Iriye|first=Akira}}
|''Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945'' |''Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945''
|Finalist |Finalist

|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |] ! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Isaac|first=Rhys L.}} |{{sortname|last=Isaac|first=Rhys L.}}
|{{Sort|Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790|'']''}} |{{Sort|Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790|'']''}}
|Winner |Winner

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Middlekauff|first=Robert}} |{{sortname|last=Middlekauff|first=Robert}}
|{{Sort|Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789|'']''}} |{{Sort|Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789|'']''}}
|Finalist |Finalist

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wyatt-Brown|first=Bertram}} |{{sortname|last=Wyatt-Brown|first=Bertram}}
|''Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South'' |''Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South''
|Finalist |Finalist

|-
|
|-
!] !]
! colspan="3" |No Award presented ! colspan="3" |No Award presented
!
|- style=background-color:lightyellow; |- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |] ! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=McCraw|first=Thomas K.}} |{{sortname|last=McCraw|first=Thomas K.}}
|'']'' |'']''
|Winner |Winner

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Prucha|first=Francis Paul}} |{{sortname|last=Prucha|first=Francis Paul}}
|{{Sort|Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians|''The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians''}} |{{Sort|Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians|''The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians''}}
|Finalist |Finalist

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Williamson|first=Joel}} |{{sortname|last=Williamson|first=Joel}}
|{{Sort|Crucible of Race|''The Crucible of Race''}} |{{Sort|Crucible of Race|''The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation''}}
|Finalist |Finalist

|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |] ! rowspan="4" |]
|{{sortname|last=McDougall|first=Walter A.}} |{{sortname|last=McDougall|first=Walter A.}}
|'']'' |'']''
|Winner |Winner

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Jacqueline}} |{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Jacqueline}}
|''Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present'' |''Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present''
|Finalist |Finalist

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=McDonald|first=Forrest}} |{{sortname|last=McDonald|first=Forrest}}
|''Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution'' |''Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution''
|Finalist |Finalist

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Miller|first=Kerby A.}} |{{sortname|last=Miller|first=Kerby A.}}
|''Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America'' |''Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America''
|Finalist |Finalist

|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |] ! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Bailyn|first=Bernard}} |{{sortname|last=Bailyn|first=Bernard}}
|'']'' |'']''
|Winner |Winner

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Eisenhower|first=David}} |{{sortname|last=Eisenhower|first=David}}
|''Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945'' |''Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945''
|Finalist |Finalist

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Garrow|first=David}} |{{sortname|last=Garrow|first=David}}
|] |'']''
|Finalist |Finalist

|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |] ! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Bruce|first=Robert V.}} |{{sortname|last=Bruce|first=Robert V.}}
|{{Sort|Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876|'']''}} |{{Sort|Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876|'']''}}
|Winner |Winner

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Montgomery|first=David|link=David Montgomery (historian)}} |{{sortname|last=Montgomery|first=David|link=David Montgomery (historian)}}
|{{Sort|Fall of the House of Labor|'']''}} |{{Sort|Fall of the House of Labor|'']''}}
|Finalist |Finalist

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Rosenberg|first=Charles E.}} |{{sortname|last=Rosenberg|first=Charles E.}}
|{{Sort|Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System|''The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System''}} |{{Sort|Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System|''The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System''}}
|Finalist |Finalist

|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |] ! rowspan="4" |]
|{{sortname|last=Branch|first=Taylor}} |{{sortname|last=Branch|first=Taylor}}
|] |'']''
|Winner |Winner

|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|{{sortname|last=McPherson|first=James M.}} |{{sortname|last=McPherson|first=James M.}}
|'']'' |'']''
|Winner |Winner

|-
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Foner|first=Eric}} |{{sortname|last=Foner|first=Eric}}
|] |'']''
|Finalist |Finalist
|-
|{{sortname|last=Sheehan|first=Neil}}
|{{Sort|Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam|'']''}}
|Finalist


|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Sheehan|first=Neil}}
|{{Sort|Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam|'']''}}
|Finalist
|
|} |}
===1990s=== ===1990s===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
* '''1990:''' '']'' by ]
|+Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 1990-1999<ref name=":1" />
** ''American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870&ndash;1970'' by ]
!Year
** ''The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I'' by ]
!Author
* '''1991:''' '']'' by ]
!Title
** ''America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink'' by ]
!Result
** ''Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919&ndash;1939'' by ]
!Ref.
** ''The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy'' by Hugh David Graham
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
* '''1992:''' '']'' by ]
! rowspan="3" |]
** ''A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs'' by ]
|{{sortname|last=Karnow|first=Stanley}}
** ''Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West'' by ]
| '']''
** ''Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century'' by John Frederick Martin
|Winner
** ''The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650&ndash;1815'' by ]
|
* '''1993:''' '']'' by ]
|-
** '']'' by ]
|{{sortname|last=Honour|first=Hugh}}
** ''The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction'' by ]
|{{Sort|Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I|''The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I''}}
* '''1994:''' no award given
|Finalist
** ''Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK'' by ]
|
** ''Crime and Punishment in American History'' by ]
|-
** ''William Faulkner and Southern History'' by ]
|{{sortname|last=Hughes|first=Thomas P.}}
* '''1995:''' '']'' by ]
|''American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870–1970''
** ''Lincoln in American Memory'' by ]
|Finalist
** ''Stories of Scottsboro'' by James Goodman
|
* '''1996:''' '']'' by ]
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
** ''Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb'' by ]
! rowspan="4" |]
** ''The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic'' by ]
|{{sortname|last=Ulrich|first=Laurel Thatcher}}
* '''1997:''' '']'' by ]
| {{Sort|Midwife's Tale|''A Midwife's Tale''}}
** ''Founding Mothers and Fathers'' by ]
|Winner
** ''The Battle for Christmas'' by ]
|
* '''1998:''' '']'' by ]
|-
** '']'' by ]
|{{sortname|last=Cohen|first=Lizabeth}}
** ''Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History'' by ]
|''Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939''
* '''1999:''' '']'' by ] and ]
|Finalist
** ''In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival'' by ]
|
** ''This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age'' by ]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Graham|first=Hugh Davis}}
|{{Sort|Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy|''The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Stampp|first=Kenneth M.}}
|''America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="5" |]
|{{sortname|last=Neely, Jr.|first=Mark E.}}
| {{Sort|Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties|'']''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Cronon|first=William}}
|''Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Draper|first=Theodore}}
|{{Sort|Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs|''A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Martin|first=John Frederick}}
|''Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=White|first=Richard|link=Richard White (historian)}}
|{{Sort|Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815|''The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Wood|first=Gordon S.}}
| {{Sort|Radicalism of the American Revolution|'']''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Ayers|first=Edward L.}}
|{{Sort|Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction|''The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wills|first=Garry}}
|'']''
|Finalist
|
|-
! rowspan="4" |]
! colspan="3" |''No award given''
!
|-
|{{sortname|last=Friedman|first=Lawrence M.}}
|''Crime and Punishment in American History''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Posner|first=Gerald}}
|''Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Williamson|first=Joel}}
|''William Faulkner and Southern History''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Goodwin|first=Doris Kearns}}
| '']''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Goodman|first=James|nolink=1}}
|''Stories of Scottsboro''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Peterson|first=Merrill D.}}
|''Lincoln in American Memory''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Taylor|first=Alan|link=Alan Taylor (historian)}}
| '']''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Banning|first=Lance}}
|{{Sort|Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic|''The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Rhodes|first=Richard}}
|''Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Rakove|first=Jack N.}}
| '']''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Nissenbaum|first=Stephen}}
|{{Sort|Battle for Christmas|''The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Norton|first=Mary Beth}}
|''Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Larson|first=Edward J.}}
| '']''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=1998-04-20 |title=PW: Roth, Kakutani Awarded Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/19980420/22143-pw-roth-kakutani-awarded-pulitzers.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Lukas|first=J. Anthony}}
|'']''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Rogers}}
|''Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Burrows|first=Edwin G.}} and ]
| '']''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zeitchik |first=Steven M. |date=1999-04-19 |title=FSG Leads Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/19990419/20221-fsg-leads-pulitzer-winners.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127120746/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/19990419/20221-fsg-leads-pulitzer-winners.html |archive-date=January 27, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Burrows|first=William E.}}
|''This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Marks|first=Paula Mitchell}}
|''In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival''
|Finalist
|
|}


===2000s=== ===2000s===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
* '''2000:''' '']'' by ]
|+Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 2000-2009<ref name=":1" />
** ''The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America'' by ]
!Year
** ''Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier'' by ]
!Author
* '''2001:''' '']'' by ]
!Title
** ''The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States'' by ]
!Result
** ''Way Out There in the Blue'' by ]
!Ref.
* '''2002:''' '']'' by ]
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
** ''Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation'' by J. William Harris
! rowspan="3" |]
** '']'' by ]
|{{sortname|last=Kennedy|first=David M.|link=David M. Kennedy (historian)}}
* '''2003:''' '']'' by ]
| '']''
** ''At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America'' by ]
|Winner
** ''Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America'' by ]
|
* '''2004:''' '']'' by ]
|-
** '']'' by ]
|{{sortname|last=Merrell|first=James H.}}
** '']'' by ]
|''Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier''
* '''2005:''' '']'' by ]
|Finalist
** '']: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age'' by ]
|
** ''Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2'' by ]
|-
* '''2006:''' '']'' by ]
|{{sortname|last=Phillips|first=Kevin|link=Kevin Phillips (political commentator)}}
** ''New York Burning'' by ]
|{{Sort|Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America|''The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America''}}
** ''The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln'' by ]
|Finalist
* '''2007:''' '']'' by ] and ]
|
** ''Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War'' by ]
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
** ''Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005'' by ]
! rowspan="3" |]
* '''2008:''' '']'' by ]
|{{sortname|last=Ellis|first=Joseph J.}}
** '']'' by ]
| '']''
** ''Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power'' by ]
|Winner
* '''2009:''' '']'' by ]
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2001-04-23 |title=Chabon, Ellis Win Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20010423/19025-chabon-ellis-win-pulitzers.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>
** ''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 ]
|{{sortname|last=FitzGerald|first=Frances|link=Frances FitzGerald (journalist)}}

|'']''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Keyssar|first=Alexander}}
|{{Sort|Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States|''The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Menand|first=Louis}}
| {{Sort|Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America|'']''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Harris|first=J. William}}
|''Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Richter|first=Daniel K.}}
|''Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Atkinson|first=Rick}}
| {{Sort|Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943|'']''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Dray|first=Philip}}
|''At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Lefkowitz Horowitz|first=Helen}}
|''Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Hahn|first=Steven}}
| {{Sort|Nation Under Our Feet|'']''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Maraniss|first=David}}
|'']''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Okrent|first=Daniel}}
|'']''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Hackett Fischer|first=David}}
| '']''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Boyle|first=Kevin|link=Kevin Boyle (historian)}}
|'']''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=O'Brien|first=Michael|link=Michael O'Brien (historian)}}
|''Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Oshinsky|first=David}}
| '']''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Lepore|first=Jill}}
|'']''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wilentz|first=Sean}}
|{{Sort|Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln|''The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Roberts|first=Gene|link=Gene Roberts (journalist)}} and ]
| {{Sort|Race Beat|'']''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Campbell|first=James T.}}
|''Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Philbrick|first=Nathaniel}}
|'']''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Howe|first=Daniel Walker}}
| '']''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Dallek|first=Robert}}
|''Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Halberstam|first=David}}
|{{Sort|Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War|'']''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Gordon-Reed|first=Annette}}
| {{Sort|Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family|'']''}}
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-21 |title=Awards: The Pulitzers; Orange Prize Shortlist |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=905 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002000124/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=905 |archive-date=October 2, 2017 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-20 |title=The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters and Drama |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/15142-the-2009-pulitzer-prizes-for-letters-and-drama.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Faust|first=Drew Gilpin}}
|''This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Mackenzie|first=G. Calvin}} and ]
|{{Sort|Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s|''The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s''}}
|Finalist
|
|}
===2010s=== ===2010s===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
* '''2010:''' '']'' by ]
|+Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 2010-2019<ref name=":1" />
** ''Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815'' by ]
!Year
** ''Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City'' by ]
!Author
* '''2011:''' '']'' by ]
!Title
** ''Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South'' by ]
!Result
** ''Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston'' by ]
!Ref.
* '''2012:''' '']'' by ]
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
** ''Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860'' by ]
! rowspan="3" |]
** ''The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden'' by ] and ]
|{{sortname|last=Ahamed|first=Liaquat}}
** ''Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America'' by ]
* '''2013:''' '']'' by ] | '']''
|Winner
** ''The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675'' by ]
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-04-13 |title=Awards: The Pulitzers |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1160 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820022347/http://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1160 |archive-date=August 20, 2016 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=]}}</ref>
** ''Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History'' by ]
|-
* '''2014:''' '']'' by ]
|{{sortname|last=Grandin|first=Greg}}
** ''A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America'' by ]
|''Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City''
** ''Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety'' by ]
|Finalist
* '''2015:''' '']'' by ]<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=History |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/220 |access-date=20 April 2015 |website=] |publisher=}}</ref>
|
** ''Empire of Cotton: A Global History'' by ]
|-
** ''An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America'' by ]
|{{sortname|last=Wood|first=Gordon S.}}
* '''2016:''' ''Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America'' by ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/220|title=The Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref>
|'']''
** ''Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War'' by Brian Matthew Jordan
|Finalist
** ''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 ]
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
* '''2017:''' '']'' by ]<ref name=":1" />
! rowspan="3" |]
** ''Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It'' by ]
|{{sortname|last=Foner|first=Eric}}
** ''New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America'' by ]
| {{Sort|Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery|'']''}}
* '''2018:''' ''The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea'' by ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018|title=2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners|website=www.pulitzer.org}}</ref>
|Winner
** ''Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics'' by ]
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-04-19 |title=Awards: Pulitzer, Lukas Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1443 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206034500/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1443 |archive-date=February 6, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=]}}</ref>
** ''Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America'' by ]
|-
* '''2019:''' '']'' by ]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019|title=2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners|website=www.pulitzer.org}}</ref>
|{{sortname|last=McCurry|first=Stephanie}}
** ''American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic'' by ]
|''Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South''
** ''Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition'' by ]
|Finalist
|<ref>{{cite news |date=April 18, 2011 |title=2011 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music |work=] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/business/media/19PULITZERLIST-ARTS.html?_r=0 |access-date=September 3, 2014 |archive-date=September 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904062848/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/business/media/19PULITZERLIST-ARTS.html?_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Rawson|first=Michael J.}}
|''Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston''
|Finalist
|<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Vary |first=Adam B. |date=April 18, 2011 |title=Pulitzer Prizes announced for 2011 |url=http://ew.com/article/2011/04/18/pulitzer-prize-2011-winners-literature/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=June 1, 2018}}</ref>
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |]
|{{sortname|last=Marable|first=Manning}}
| '']''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-04-17 |title=Awards: Pulitzer Winners; Orange Prize Shortlist |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1718 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028053548/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1718 |archive-date=October 28, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Habash |first=Gabe |date=2012-04-16 |title=2012 Pulitzer Prize: No Fiction Award, Jurors 'Shocked' |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/51542-2012-pulitzer-prize-no-fiction-award-jurors-shocked.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119150319/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/51542-2012-pulitzer-prize-no-fiction-award-jurors-shocked.html |archive-date=January 19, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Hyde|first=Anne F.}}
|''Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Summers|first=Anthony}} and ]
|{{Sort|Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden|''The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=White|first=Richard|link=Richard White (historian)}}
|''Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Logevall|first=Fredrik}}
| '']''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Habash |first=Gabe |date=2013-04-15 |title=2013 Pulitzer Prize: 'Orphan Master' Brings Fiction Prize Back |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/56832-2013-pulitzer-prize-orphan-master-brings-fiction-prize-back.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126191934/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/56832-2013-pulitzer-prize-orphan-master-brings-fiction-prize-back.html |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Bailyn|first=Bernard}}
|{{Sort|Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675|''The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Witt|first=John Fabian}}
|''Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Taylor|first=Alan|link=Alan Taylor (historian)}}
| {{Sort|Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832|'']''}}
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-04-15 |title=Awards: Pulitzer Winners; Thwaites Wainwright Nature & Travel Writing |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2229 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310022608/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2229 |archive-date=March 10, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-04-14 |title=Tartt, Fagin Take 2014 Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/61855-tartt-fagin-take-2014-pulitzers.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110152417/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/61855-tartt-fagin-take-2014-pulitzers.html |archive-date=November 10, 2014 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Jacqueline}}
|{{Sort|Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America|''A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Schlosser|first=Eric}}
|''Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Fenn|first=Elizabeth A.}}
| '']''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-04-21 |title=Doerr, Kolbert Among 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2490 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128034004/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2490 |archive-date=January 28, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=] }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Beckert|first=Sven}}
|''Empire of Cotton: A Global History''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Bunker|first=Nick}}
|{{Sort|Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America|''An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |]
|{{sortname|last=Stiles|first=T. J.}}
| '']''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-04-19 |title=Debut Novel Among 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2735 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302135954/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2735 |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=]}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Jacobsen|first=Annie}}
|{{Sort|Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency|''The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Jordan|first=Brian Matthew}}
|''Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Scott|first=James M.|nolink=1}}
|''Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Thompson|first=Heather Ann}}
| '']''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-11 |title=The Underground Railroad Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2977 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119025053/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2977 |archive-date=January 19, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=John |date=2017-04-10 |title=Whitehead, Thompson Among 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/73303-pulitzer-prizes-2017.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808033829/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/73303-pulitzer-prizes-2017.html |archive-date=August 8, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Ferreiro|first=Larrie D.}}
|''Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Warren|first=Wendy}}
|''New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Davis|first=Jack E.}}
| {{Sort|Gulf: The Making of an American Sea|''The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea''}}
|Winner
|<ref name=":3">{{cite web |title=2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018 |website=] |access-date=2018-04-16 |archive-date=2019-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911080447/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":4">{{cite web |title=2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911080447/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018 |archive-date=September 11, 2019 |access-date=April 16, 2019 |website=]}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Phillips-Fein|first=Kim}}
|''Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":3" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Ross|first=Steven J.|dab=historian}}
|''Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":3" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Blight|first=David W.}}
| '']''
|Winner
|<ref name=":5">{{cite web |title=2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726100152/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019 |archive-date=July 26, 2019 |access-date=April 16, 2019 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-04-16 |title=Richard Powers, David W. Blight Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3474 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126034939/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3474 |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=]}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Fitzhugh Brundage|first=W.}}
|''Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":5" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Johnson|first=Victoria}}
|''American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":5" />
|}


===2020s=== ===2020s===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
*'''2020:''' '']'' by ]<ref>{{cite web |title=Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, by W. Caleb McDaniel (Oxford University Press) |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/w-caleb-mcdaniel |website=pulitzer.org |access-date=June 25, 2020}}</ref>
|+Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 2020-2024<ref name=":1" />
**''Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership'' by ]
!Year
**''The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America'' by ]
!Author

!Title
*'''2021:''' '']'' by ]
!Result
**''The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America'' by ]
!Ref.
**''The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West'' by ]
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;

! rowspan="3" |]
*'''2022:''' Two winners: ''Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America'' by ], and ''Cuba: An American History'' by ]
|{{sortname|last=McDaniel|first=W. Caleb}}
**''Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction'' by ]
| '']''
*'''2023:<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Sophia |date=2023-05-08 |title='Demon Copperhead,' 'Trust,' 'His Name Is George Floyd' Among 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/92233-demon-copperhead-trust-his-name-is-george-floyd-among-2023-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>''' ''Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power'' by ]
|Winner
**''Watergate: A New History'' by ]
|<ref name=":02">{{cite web |title=2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730234718/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2020 |archive-date=July 30, 2020 |access-date=May 5, 2020 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-05 |title=The Nickel Boys Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3732 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130215553/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3732 |archive-date=January 30, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=John |date=2020-05-04 |title=Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/83233-pulitzer-prizes-2020.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130123841/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/83233-pulitzer-prizes-2020.html |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=] |language=en}}</ref>
**''Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America'' by Michael John Witten
|-
|{{sortname|last=Grandin|first=Greg}}
|{{Sort|End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America|'']''}}
|Finalist
|<ref name=":02" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Taylor|first=Keeanga-Yamahtta}}
|''Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":02" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Chatelain|first=Marcia}}
| '']''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2021-06-11 |title=Pulitzer Prize: 2021 Winners List |language=en-US |work=] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/business/pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2023-05-11 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2021-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614171313/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/business/pulitzer-prize-winners.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":12">{{cite web |title=2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711134532/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2021 |archive-date=July 11, 2022 |access-date=June 11, 2021 |website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-14 |title=2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123024752/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4006 |archive-date=January 23, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=]}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Cervini|first=Eric}}
|{{Sort|Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America|''The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America''}}
|Finalist
|<ref name=":12" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Nelson|first=Megan Kate}}
|{{Sort|Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West|''The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West''}}
|Finalist
|<ref name=":12" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Eustace|first=Nicole}}
| ''Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America''
|Winner
|<ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802013936/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2022 |archive-date=August 2, 2022 |access-date=May 12, 2022 |website=]}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=John |date=2022-05-09 |title='The Netanyahus,' 'frank: sonnets' Among 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/89252-the-netanyahus-frank-sonnets-among-2022-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129181727/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/89252-the-netanyahus-frank-sonnets-among-2022-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=] |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |date=2022-05-10 |title=2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4229 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705011242/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4229 |archive-date=July 5, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=]}}</ref>
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|{{sortname|last=Ferrer|first=Ada}}
| '']''
|Winner
|<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Masur|first=Kate}}
|''Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":2" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Cowie|first=Jefferson}}
| '']''
|Winner
|'''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Sophia |date=2023-05-08 |title='Demon Copperhead,' 'Trust,' 'His Name Is George Floyd' Among 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/92233-demon-copperhead-trust-his-name-is-george-floyd-among-2023-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-09 |title=2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners Include Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead, Diaz's Trust |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4476 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=]}}</ref>'''
|-
|{{sortname|last=Graff|first=Garrett M.}}
|''Watergate: A New History''
|Finalist
|'''<ref name=":0" />'''
|-
|Michael John Witgen
|''Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America''
|Finalist
|'''<ref name=":0" />'''
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |]
|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Jacqueline}}
| ''No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era''
|Winner
|'''<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=op de Beeck |first=Nathalie|date=2024-05-06 |title='Night Watch,' 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,' 'King' Among 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners
|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/94978-night-watch-a-day-in-the-life-of-abed-salama-king-among-2024-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2024-05-08 |website=] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-07 |title=2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners
|url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4721#m63738 |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=]}}</ref>'''
|-
|{{sortname|last=West|first=Elliott}}
|''Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion''
|Finalist
|'''<ref name=":8" />'''
|-
|{{sortname|last=Willrich|first=Michael}}
|''American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century''
|Finalist
|'''<ref name=":8" />'''
|}


==Repeat winners== ==Repeat winners==


Five people have won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice. Five people have won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice.
* ], 1942 for ''Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865'' and 1960 for ''In the Days of McKinley'' * ], 1942 for ''Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865'' and 1960 for ''In the Days of McKinley''
* ], 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'' * ], 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''
* ], 1955 for ''Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History'' and 1976 for ''Lamy of Santa Fe'' * ], 1955 for ''Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History'' and 1976 for ''Lamy of Santa Fe''
* ], 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''<ref>{{cite web|author=Husna Haq |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2014/0414/Donna-Tartt-s-The-Goldfinch-a-novel-that-has-charmed-critics-and-readers-alike-wins-the-2014-Pulitzer-Prize |title=Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch' – a novel that has charmed critics and readers alike – wins the 2014 Pulitzer Prize |publisher=CSMonitor.com |date=2014-04-14 |access-date=2014-04-22}}</ref> * ], 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''<ref>{{cite web |author=Husna Haq |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2014/0414/Donna-Tartt-s-The-Goldfinch-a-novel-that-has-charmed-critics-and-readers-alike-wins-the-2014-Pulitzer-Prize |title=Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch' – a novel that has charmed critics and readers alike – wins the 2014 Pulitzer Prize |publisher=CSMonitor.com |date=2014-04-14 |access-date=2014-04-22 |archive-date=2014-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421174835/http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2014/0414/Donna-Tartt-s-The-Goldfinch-a-novel-that-has-charmed-critics-and-readers-alike-wins-the-2014-Pulitzer-Prize |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ] 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''. * ] 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== ==See also==

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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. The Pulitzer Prize program has also recognized some historical work with its Biography prize, from 1917, and its General Nonfiction prize, from 1962.

    Finalists have been announced since 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.

    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.

    1910s–1970s

    Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 1917–1979
    Year Author Title Ref.
    1917 Jean Jules Jusserand With Americans of Past and Present Days
    1918 James Ford Rhodes A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
    1919 No award presented
    1920 Justin H. Smith The War with Mexico
    1921 William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick The Victory at Sea
    1922 James Truslow Adams The Founding of New England
    1923 Charles Warren The Supreme Court in United States History
    1924 Charles Howard McIlwain The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
    1925 Frederic L. Paxson History of the American Frontier
    1926 Edward Channing A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849–1865)
    1927 Samuel Flagg Bemis Pinckney's Treaty
    1928 Vernon Louis Parrington Main Currents in American Thought
    1929 Fred Albert Shannon The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865
    1930 Claude H. Van Tyne The War of Independence
    1931 Bernadotte E. Schmitt The Coming of the War, 1914
    1932 John J. Pershing My Experiences in the World War
    1933 Frederick J. Turner The Significance of Sections in American History
    1934 Herbert Agar The People's Choice
    1935 Charles McLean Andrews The Colonial Period of American History
    1936 Andrew C. McLaughlin A Constitutional History of the United States
    1937 Van Wyck Brooks The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865
    1938 Paul Herman Buck The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900
    1939 Frank Luther Mott A History of American Magazines
    1940 Carl Sandburg Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
    1941 Marcus Lee Hansen The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860
    1942 Margaret Leech Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865
    1943 Esther Forbes Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
    1944 Merle Curti The Growth of American Thought
    1945 Stephen Bonsal Unfinished Business
    1946 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The Age of Jackson
    1947 James Phinney Baxter III Scientists Against Time
    1948 Bernard DeVoto Across the Wide Missouri
    1949 Roy Franklin Nichols The Disruption of American Democracy
    1950 Oliver W. Larkin Art and Life in America
    1951 R. Carlyle Buley The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840
    1952 Oscar Handlin The Uprooted
    1953 George Dangerfield The Era of Good Feelings
    1954 Bruce Catton A Stillness at Appomattox
    1955 Paul Horgan Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
    1956 Richard Hofstadter The Age of Reform
    1957 George F. Kennan Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920
    1958 Bray Hammond Banks and Politics in America
    1959 Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider The Republican Era: 1869–1901
    1960 Margaret Leech In the Days of McKinley
    1961 Herbert Feis Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference
    1962 Lawrence H. Gipson The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766
    1963 Constance McLaughlin Green Washington: Village and Capital, 1800–1878
    1964 Sumner Chilton Powell Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
    1965 Irwin Unger The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865–1879
    1966 Perry Miller The Life of the Mind in America
    1967 William H. Goetzmann Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
    1968 Bernard Bailyn The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
    1969 Leonard W. Levy Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination
    1970 Dean Acheson Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
    1971 James MacGregor Burns Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom
    1972 Carl N. Degler Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
    1973 Michael Kammen People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
    1974 Daniel J. Boorstin The Americans: The Democratic Experience
    1975 Dumas Malone Jefferson and His Time
    1976 Paul Horgan Lamy of Santa Fe
    1977 David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher) The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861
    1978 Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
    1979 Don E. Fehrenbacher The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics

    1980s

    Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.

    Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 1980-1989
    Year Author Title Result Ref.
    1980 Leon F. Litwack 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
    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 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 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 Winner
    James M. McPherson Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Winner
    Eric Foner Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution – 1863–1877 Finalist
    Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Finalist

    1990s

    Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 1990-1999
    Year Author Title Result Ref.
    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. 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 Winner
    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
    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

    Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 2000-2009
    Year Author Title Result Ref.
    2000 David M. Kennedy Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War Winner
    James H. Merrell 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 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Winner
    Frances FitzGerald Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War 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 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
    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

    Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 2010-2019
    Year Author Title Result Ref.
    2010 Liaquat Ahamed Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Winner
    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 Winner
    Stephanie McCurry Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South Finalist
    Michael J. Rawson Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston Finalist
    2012 Manning Marable Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Winner
    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
    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 Winner
    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
    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
    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 Winner
    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
    Kim Phillips-Fein Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics Finalist
    Steven J. Ross Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America Finalist
    2019 David W. Blight Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Winner
    W. Fitzhugh Brundage Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition Finalist
    Victoria Johnson American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic Finalist

    2020s

    Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 2020-2024
    Year Author Title Result Ref.
    2020 W. Caleb McDaniel Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America Winner
    Greg Grandin The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Finalist
    Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership Finalist
    2021 Marcia Chatelain Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America Winner
    Eric Cervini The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America Finalist
    Megan Kate Nelson The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West Finalist
    2022 Nicole Eustace Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America Winner
    Ada Ferrer Cuba: An American History Winner
    Kate Masur Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction Finalist
    2023 Jefferson Cowie Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power Winner
    Garrett M. Graff Watergate: A New History Finalist
    Michael John Witgen Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America Finalist
    2024 Jacqueline Jones No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era Winner
    Elliott West Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion Finalist
    Michael Willrich American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Finalist

    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
    • 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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