The Literary World
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for History
This prize has been awarded annually since 1917 for a book on the history of the United States.
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Alan John Percivale Taylor
- 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for William Cooper''s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
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Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (born 1918)
American historian.
- 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
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Andrew C. McLaughlin
American historian.
- 1936 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Constitutional History of the United States
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (born 1917)
American historian.
- 1946 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Age of Jackson
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Bernadotte E. Schmitt (born 1886, died 1969)
American historian.
- 1931 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Coming of the War: 1914
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Bernard A. De Voto (born 1897, died 1955)
American historian.
- 1948 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Across the Wide Missouri
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Bernard Bailyn (born 1922)
American historian.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for History, in 1968 for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and in 1987 for Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
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Bray Hammond
American historian.
- 1958 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Banks and Politics in America
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Bruce Catton (born 1899, died 1978)
American historian of the Civil War.
- 1954 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for A Stillness at Appomattox
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Carl N. Degler (born 1921)
American historian.
- 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Neither Black Nor White
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Carl Sandburg (born 1878, died 1967)
American poet and biographer.
- 1940 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
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R. Carlyle Buley
- 1951 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Old Northwest: Pioneer Period, 1815-1840
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Charles Warren (born 1868, died 1954)
American historian.
- 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Supreme Court in United States History
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Charles Howard McIlwain (born 1871, died 1968)
American historian and political scientist.
- 1924 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
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Charles McLean Andrews (born 1863, died 1943)
American historian.
- 1935 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Colonial Period of American History
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Claude H. Van Tyne
- 1930 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The War of Independence
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David M. Potter (born 1910, died 1971)
American historian.
- 1977 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Impending Crisis
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Dean Acheson (born 1893, died 1971)
American diplomat.
- 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
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Don E. Fehrenbacher (born 1920)
American historian.
- 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Dred Scott Case
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Dumas Malone (born 1892, died 1986)
American historian.
- 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Jefferson and His Time
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Edward Channing (born 1856, died 1931)
American historian.
- 1926 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The History of the United States
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Frank Luther Mott
- 1939 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for A History of American Magazines
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Fred A. Shannon (born 1893, died 1963)
American historian.
- 1929 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865
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Frederick J. Turner (born 1861, died 1932)
American historian.
- 1933 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Significance of Sections in American History
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Frederick L. Paxton
- 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for A History of the American Frontier
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George Dangerfield
- 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Era of Good Feelings
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Gordon S. Wood (born 1933)
American historian.
- 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Radicalism of the American Revolution
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Herbert Agar (born 1897, died 1980)
American historian.
- 1934 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The People''s Choice
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Herbert Feis (born 1893, died 1972)
American historian.
- 1961 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference
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Irwin Unger (born 1927)
American historian.
- 1965 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Greenback Era
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Jean Adrien Antoine Jules ''J.J.'' Jusserand (born 1855, died 1932)
French diplomat and historian.
- 1917 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for With Americans of Past and Present Days
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James Phinney Baxter III (born 1893, died 1975)
American historian and college president.
- 1947 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Scientists Against Time
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James Ford Rhodes (born 1848, died 1927)
American historian.
- 1918 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
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James Truslow Adams (born 1878, died 1949)
American historian.
- 1922 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Founding of New England
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James M. McPherson (born 1936)
American historian.
- 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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John J. Pershing (born 1860, died 1948)
American general.
- 1932 Pulitzer Prize Winner for History, for My Experiences in the World War
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Justin H. Smith (born 1857, died 1930)
American historian.
- 1920 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The War with Mexico
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Lawrence H. Gibson
- 1962 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Triumphant Empire: Thunderclouds Gather in the West
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Lawrence A. Cremin
- 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
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Leon F. Litwack (born 1929)
American historian.
- 1980 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Been in the Storm So Long
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Leonard D. White
- 1959 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Republican Era: 1869-1901
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Leonard W. Levy (born 1923)
American historian.
- 1969 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Origins of the Fifth Amendment
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Marcus Lee Hansen
- 1941 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860
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Mark E. Neely, Jr.
- 1992 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
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Merle Curti (born 1897, died 1996)
American historian.
- 1944 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Growth of American Thought
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Michael Kammen (born 1936)
American historian.
- 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
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Mike Wallace (born 1918)
American broadcast journalist; longtime member of the ''60 Minutes'' team.
- 1999 Pulitzer Prize winner for History with Edwin G. Burrows, for Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
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Oliver W. Larkin
- 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Art and Life in America
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Oscar Handlin
- 1952 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Uprooted
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Paul Herman Buck (born 1899, died 1978)
American historian, university administrator, and librarian.
- 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900
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Paul Horgan (born 1903, died 1995)
American historian and novelist.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner for History, in 1955 for Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History and in 1976 for Lamy of Santa Fe
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Perry Miller (born 1905, died 1963)
American literary critic.
- 1966 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Life of the Mind in America
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Rhys L. Issac
- 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
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Richard Hofstadter (born 1916, died 1970)
American historian.
- 1956 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Age of Reform
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Robert V. Bruce (born 1923)
American historian.
- 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876
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Roy F. Nichols
- 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Disruption of American Democracy
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Samuel Flagg Bemis (born 1891, died 1973)
American historian.
- 1927 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Pinckney''s Treaty
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Stanley Karnow (born 1925)
American journalist and historian.
- 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for In Our Image: America''s Empire in the Philippines
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Stephen Bonsal (born 1865, died 1951)
American journalist and diplomat.
- 1945 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Unfinished Business
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Sumner Chilton Powell (born 1924)
American historian.
- 1964 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
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Taylor Branch (born 1947)
American journalist and historian.
- 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
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Thomas K. McCraw (born 1940)
American historian.
- 1985 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Prophets of Regulation
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Van Wyck Brooks (born 1886, died 1963)
American essayist and critic.
- 1937 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Flowering of New England
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C. Vann Woodward (born 1908)
American historian.
- 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Mary Chestnut''s Civil War
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Vernon Louis Parrington (born 1871, died 1929)
American historian.
- 1928 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Main Currents in American Thought
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Walter A. McDougall
- 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for . . . the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
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William Sowden Sims (born 1858, died 1936)
American admiral.
- 1921 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Victory at Sea
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William H. Goetzmann (born 1930)
American historian.
- 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
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George F. Kennan (born 1904)
American diplomat and historian.
- 1957 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Russia Leaves the War
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James MacGregor Burns (born 1918)
American historian and political scientist.
- 1971 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
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Daniel J. Boorstin (born 1914)
American historian and government official.
- 1974 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Americans: The Democratic Experience
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Jack N. Rakove
- 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
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Edward J. Larson
American historian.
- 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Summer of the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America''s Growing Debate over Science and Religion
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Edwin G. Burrows
- 1999 Pulitzer Prize winner for History with Mike Wallace, for Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
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David M. Kennedy
American historian
- 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for History
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for History
This prize has been awarded annually since 1917 for a book on the history of the United States.
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Constance McLaughlin Green (born 1897, died 1975)
American historian.
- 1963 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Washington: Village and Capital, 1800-1878
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Esther Forbes (born 1891, died 1967)
American historian and novelist.
- 1943 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
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Jean Schneider
- 1959 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for The Republican Era: 1869-1901
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born 1938)
American historian.
- 1991 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for A Midwife''s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812
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Margaret Leech
American historian.
- Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for History, in 1942 for Reveille in Washington and in 1960 for In the Days of McKinley
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
American historian.
- 1995 Pulitzer Prize winner for History, for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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