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Pulitzer Prize for History
1917:
J.J. Jusserand,
With Americans of Past and Present Days
1918:
James Ford Rhodes,
A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
1919:
no award given
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
1927:
Samuel Flagg Bemis,
Pinckney's Treaty
1928:
Vernon Louis Parrington,
Main Currents in American Thought
1929:
Fred Albert Shanoon,
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 Meier 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: l869-1901
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
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
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
'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 and Don E. Fehrenbacher,
The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867
1978:
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.,
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
1979:
Don E. Fehrenbacher,
The Dred Scott Case
1980:
Leon F. Litwack,
Been in the Storm So Long
1981:
Lawrence A. Cremin,
American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
1982:
C. Vann Woodward (ed.),
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
1983:
Rhys L. Isaac,
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
1984:
no award given
1985:
Thomas K. McGraw,
Prophets of Regulation
1986:
Walter A. McDougall,
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
1987:
Bernard Bailyn,
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
1988:
Robert V. Bruce,
The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876
1989:
James M. Mc.Pherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
and
Taylor Branch,
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
1990:
Stanley Karnow,
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
1991:
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,
A Midwife's Tale
1992:
Mark E. Neely, Jr.,
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
1993:
Gordon S. Wood,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
1994:
no award given
1995:
Doris Kearns Goodwin,
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
1996:
Alan Taylor,
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
1997:
Jack N. Rakove,
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
1998
:
Edward J. Larson,
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
1999
:
Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace,
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
2000
:
David M. Kennedy,
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
2001
:
Joseph J. Ellis
,
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
2002
:
Louis Menand,
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America