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Pulitzer Prize for History

American award for history books

Summary

American award for history books

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

YearAuthorTitleRef.191719181919No award presented192019211922192319241925192619271928192919301931193219331934193519361937193819391940194119421943194419451946194719481949195019511952195319541955195619571958195919601961196219631964196519661967196819691970197119721973197419751976197719781979
With Americans of Past and Present Days
author1=Elizabeth A. Brennanurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA280title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winnersauthor2=Elizabeth C. Claragepublisher=Greenwood Publishing Groupyear=1999isbn=978-1-57356-111-2pages=280–accessdate=12 September 2020}}
and Burton J. Hendrick
author1=Heinz-D Fischerurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=w3CdrctE80IC&pg=PA304title=Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000: Decision-Making Processes in all Award Categories based on unpublished Sourcesauthor2=Erika J. Fischerdate=9 May 2011publisher=Walter de Gruyterisbn=978-3-11-093912-5pages=304–accessdate=13 September 2020}}
History of the American Frontier
Pinckney's Treaty
Main Currents in American Thought
†
My Experiences in the World War
†
author1=Heinz Dietrich Fischerurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=okvYMZnx4ykC&pg=PA254title=Complete Bibliographical Manual of Books about the Pulitzer Prizes, 1935-2003: Monographs and Anthologies on the Coveted Awardsauthor2=Erika J. Fischerpublisher=Walter de Gruyteryear=2004isbn=978-3-598-30188-9pages=254–accessdate=13 December 2020}}
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
†
Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
Unfinished Business
Scientists Against Time
Across the Wide Missouri
Art and Life in America
The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840
The Uprooted
The Era of Good Feelings
A Stillness at Appomattox
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
The Age of Reform
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920
Banks and Politics in America
† and Jean SchneiderThe Republican Era: 1869–1901
In the Days of McKinley
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference
Washington: Village and Capital, 1800–1878
Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
†
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom
Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
Jefferson and His Time
Lamy of Santa Fe
† (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)

1980s

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

YearAuthorTitleResultRef.19801981198219831984No Award presented19851986198719881989
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of SlaveryWinner
Finalist
Finalist
American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876Winner
Over Here: The First World War and American SocietyFinalist
Finalist
Mary Chesnut's Civil WarWinner
White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African HistoryFinalist
Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945Finalist
Winner
Finalist
Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old SouthFinalist
Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. KahnWinner
Finalist
Finalist
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space AgeWinner
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the PresentFinalist
Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the ConstitutionFinalist
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North AmericaFinalist
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the RevolutionWinner
Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945Finalist
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceFinalist
Winner
Finalist
Finalist
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963Winner
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War EraWinner
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution – 1863–1877Finalist
Finalist

1990s

YearAuthorTitleResultRef.19901991199219931994No award given19951996199719981999
In Our Image: America's Empire in the PhilippinesWinner
Finalist
American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870–1970Finalist
Winner
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939Finalist
Finalist
America in 1857: A Nation on the BrinkFinalist
Winner
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great WestFinalist
Finalist
Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth CenturyFinalist
Finalist
Winner
Finalist
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade AmericaFinalist
Crime and Punishment in American HistoryFinalist
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFKFinalist
William Faulkner and Southern HistoryFinalist
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War IIWinner
Stories of ScottsboroFinalist
Lincoln in American MemoryFinalist
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American RepublicWinner
Finalist
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen BombFinalist
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the ConstitutionWinner
Finalist
Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American SocietyFinalist
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and ReligionWinner
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of AmericaFinalist
Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. HistoryFinalist
and Mike WallaceGotham: A History of New York City to 1898Winner
This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space AgeFinalist
In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and SurvivalFinalist

2000s

YearAuthorTitleResultRef.2000200120022003200420052006200720082009
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and WarWinner
Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania FrontierFinalist
Finalist
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary GenerationWinner
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold WarFinalist
Finalist
Winner
Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of SegregationFinalist
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early AmericaFinalist
Winner
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black AmericaFinalist
Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century AmericaFinalist
Winner
They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967Finalist
Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller CenterFinalist
Washington's CrossingWinner
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz AgeFinalist
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2Finalist
Polio: An American StoryWinner
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century ManhattanFinalist
Finalist
and Hank KlibanoffWinner
Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005Finalist
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and WarFinalist
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848Winner
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in PowerFinalist
Finalist
Winner
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil WarFinalist
and Robert WeisbrotFinalist

2010s

YearAuthorTitleResultRef.2010201120122013201420152016201720182019
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the WorldWinner
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle CityFinalist
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815Finalist
Winner
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War SouthFinalist
Eden on the Charles: The Making of BostonFinalist
†Malcolm X: A Life of ReinventionWinner
Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860Finalist
and Robbyn SwanFinalist
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern AmericaFinalist
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s VietnamWinner
Finalist
Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American HistoryFinalist
Winner
Finalist
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of SafetyFinalist
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan PeopleWinner
Empire of Cotton: A Global HistoryFinalist
Finalist
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New AmericaWinner
Finalist
Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil WarFinalist
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl HarborFinalist
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyWinner
Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved ItFinalist
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early AmericaFinalist
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Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity PoliticsFinalist
Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and AmericaFinalist
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of FreedomWinnertitle=2019 Pulitzer Prize Winnersurl=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726100152/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019archive-date=July 26, 2019access-date=April 16, 2019website=Pulitzer Prize}}
Civilizing Torture: An American TraditionFinalist
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early RepublicFinalist

2020s

YearAuthorTitleResultRef.202020212022202320242025
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in AmericaWinnertitle=2020 Pulitzer Prize Winnersurl=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2020url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730234718/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2020archive-date=July 30, 2020access-date=May 5, 2020website=Pulitzer Prize}}
Finalist
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black HomeownershipFinalist
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black AmericaWinner
Finalist
Finalist
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early AmericaWinnertitle=2022 Pulitzer Prize Winnersurl=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2022url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802013936/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2022archive-date=August 2, 2022access-date=May 12, 2022website=Pulitzer Prize}}
Cuba: An American HistoryWinner
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to ReconstructionFinalist
Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal PowerWinnerlast=Stewartfirst=Sophiadate=2023-05-08title='Demon Copperhead,' 'Trust,' 'His Name Is George Floyd' Among 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winnersurl=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.htmlaccess-date=2023-05-10website=Publishers Weeklylanguage=en}}'''
Watergate: A New HistoryFinalist****
Michael John WitgenSeeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North AmericaFinalist****
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War EraWinnerlast=op de Beeckfirst=Nathaliedate=2024-05-06title='Night Watch,' 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,' 'King' Among 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winnersaccess-date=2024-05-08website=Publishers Weeklylanguage=en}}{{Cite webdate=2024-05-07title=2024 Pulitzer Prize Winnersaccess-date=2023-05-08website=Shelf Awareness}}'''
Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of ExpansionFinalist****
American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth CenturyFinalist****
Native Nations: A Millennium in North AmericaWinner
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil WarWinner
Plantation Goods: A Material History of American SlaveryFinalist

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.

Notes

References

References

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