Awards & Winners

Pulitzer Prize for History

Pulitzer Prize

Date Established : 1917

Check all the winners of Pulitzer Prize for History presented under Pulitzer Prize since 1917 .


Alan Taylor

Honored for : The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

Nominations 2014 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Alan Taylor The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Jacqueline Jones A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
Eric Schlosser Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Fredrik Logevall

Honored for : Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Fredrik Logevall Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Bernard Bailyn The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
John Fabian Witt Lincoln\u2019s Code: The Laws of War in American History

Manning Marable

Honored for : Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Manning Marable Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Anne F. Hyde Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
Anthony Summers The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden
Robbyn Swan The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden
Richard White Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

Eric Foner

Honored for : The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Eric Foner The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Stephanie McCurry Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
Michael Rawson Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston

Liaquat Ahamed

Honored for : Lords of France: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Liaquat Ahamed Lords of France: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Greg Grandin Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Gordon S. Wood Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Annette Gordon-Reed

Honored for : The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Drew Gilpin Faust This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
G. Calvin Mackenzie The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s
Robert Weisbrot The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s
Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Daniel Walker Howe

Honored for : What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Dallek Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
David Halberstam The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Daniel Walker Howe What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848

Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff

Honored for : The Race Beat

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
James T. Campbell Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
Nathaniel Philbrick Mayflower
Gene Roberts The Race Beat
Hank Klibanoff The Race Beat

David Oshinsky

Honored for : Polio: An American Story

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jill Lepore New York Burning
Sean Wilentz The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
David Oshinsky Polio: An American Story

David Hackett Fischer

Honored for : Washington's Crossing

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Kevin Boyle Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Michael O'Brien Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810\u20131860
David Hackett Fischer Washington's Crossing

Steven Hahn

Honored for : A Nation Under Our Feet

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
David Maraniss They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
Daniel Okrent Great Fortune
Steven Hahn A Nation Under Our Feet

Rick Atkinson

Honored for : An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Philip Dray At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Rereading Sex
Rick Atkinson An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943

Louis Menand

Honored for : The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
J. Harris Deep Souths
Daniel K. Richter Facing East from Indian Country
Louis Menand The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

Joseph J. Ellis

Honored for : Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Frances FitzGerald Way out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War
Alexander Keyssar The Right to Vote
Joseph J. Ellis Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

David M. Kennedy

Honored for : Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee Nominated Work
James Merrell Into the American Woods
Kevin Phillips The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America
David M. Kennedy Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

Mike Wallace, Edwin G. Burrows

Honored for : Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee Nominated Work
William E. Burrows This New Ocean
Paula Marks In a Barren Land
Edwin G. Burrows Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Mike Wallace Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

Edward J. Larson

Honored for : Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee Nominated Work
J. Anthony Lukas Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
Rogers Smith Civic Ideals
Edward J. Larson Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion

Jack N. Rakove

Honored for : Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Mary Beth Norton Founding Mothers & Fathers
Stephen Nissenbaum The Battle for Christmas
Jack N. Rakove Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

Alan Taylor

Honored for : William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lance Banning Sacred Fire of Liberty
Richard Rhodes Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Alan Taylor William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Honored for : No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee Nominated Work
James Goodman Stories of Scottsboro
Merrill D. Peterson Lincoln in American Memory
Doris Kearns Goodwin No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II

Gordon S. Wood

Honored for : The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Nominations 1993 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Edward L. Ayers The Promise of the New South
Garry Wills Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Gordon S. Wood The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Mark E. Neely, Jr.

Honored for : The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties

Nominations 1992 »

Nominee Nominated Work
William Cronon Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
John Frederick Martin Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century
Richard White The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
Mark E. Neely, Jr. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Theodore Draper A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Honored for : A Midwife's Tale

Nominations 1991 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lizabeth Cohen Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
Hugh Davis Graham The Civil Rights Era
Kenneth M. Stampp America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich A Midwife's Tale

Stanley Karnow

Honored for : In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines

Nominations 1990 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Hugh Honour The Image of the Black in Western Art
Thomas P. Hughes American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970
Stanley Karnow In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines

James M. McPherson

Honored for : Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Nominations 1989 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Eric Foner Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
James M. McPherson Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963

Taylor Branch

Honored for : Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963

Nominations 1989 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Eric Foner Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
James M. McPherson Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963

Robert V. Bruce

Honored for : The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846\u20131876

Nominations 1988 »

Nominee Nominated Work
David Montgomery The Fall of the House of Labor
Charles E. Rosenberg The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System
Robert V. Bruce The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846\u20131876

Bernard Bailyn

Honored for : Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution

Nominations 1987 »

Nominee Nominated Work
David Eisenhower Eisenhower at War 1943/45
David Garrow Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bernard Bailyn Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution

Walter A. McDougall

Honored for : ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age

Nominations 1986 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jacqueline Jones Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow
Forrest McDonald Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
Kerby A. Miller Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America
Walter A. McDougall ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age

Thomas K. McCraw

Honored for : Prophets of Regulation

Nominations 1985 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Francis Paul Prucha The Great Father
Joel Williamson The Crucible of Race
Thomas K. McCraw Prophets of Regulation

Rhys L. Isaac

Honored for : The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790

Nominations 1983 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Middlekauff The Glorious Cause
Bertram Wyatt-Brown Southern Honor
Rhys L. Isaac The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790

C. Vann Woodward

Honored for : Mary Chesnut's Civil War

Nominations 1982 »

Nominee Nominated Work
George M. Fredrickson White Supremacy
Akira Iriye Power and Culture
C. Vann Woodward Mary Chesnut's Civil War

Lawrence Cremin

Honored for : American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876

Nominations 1981 »

Nominee Nominated Work
David M. Kennedy Over Here: The First World War and American Society
Lyle Koehler A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England
Lawrence Cremin American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876

Leon Litwack

Honored for : Been in the Storm So Long

Nominations 1980 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Gary B. Nash The Urban Crucible
John D. Unruh, Jr. The Plains Across
Leon Litwack Been in the Storm So Long

Don E. Fehrenbacher

Honored for : The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

Honored for : The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

David M. Potter

Honored for : The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861

Paul Horgan

Honored for : Lamy of Santa Fe

Dumas Malone

Honored for : Jefferson and His Time

Daniel J. Boorstin

Honored for : The Americans, the democratic experience

Michael Kammen

Honored for : People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization

Carl N. Degler

Honored for : Neither Black nor white

James MacGregor Burns

Honored for : Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945

Dean Acheson

Honored for : Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department

Leonard Levy

Honored for : Origins of the Fifth Amendment

Bernard Bailyn

Honored for : The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

William H. Goetzmann

Honored for : Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West

Perry Miller

Honored for : The Life of the Mind in America

Irwin Unger

Honored for : The Greenback Era

Sumner Chilton Powell

Honored for : Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town

Constance McLaughlin Green

Honored for : Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878

Lawrence H. Gipson

Honored for : The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763-1766

Herbert Feis

Honored for : Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference

Margaret Leech

Honored for : In the Days of McKinley

Leonard D. White

Honored for : The Republican Era: 1869-1901

Bray Hammond

Honored for : Banks and Politics in America

George F. Kennan

Honored for : Russia Leaves the War

Richard Hofstadter

Honored for : The Age of Reform

Paul Horgan

Honored for : Great River

Bruce Catton

Honored for : A Stillness at Appomattox

George Dangerfield

Honored for : The Era of Good Feelings

Oscar Handlin

Honored for : The Uprooted

R. Carlyle Buley

Honored for : The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840

Oliver Waterman Larkin

Honored for : Art and Life in America

Roy Franklin Nichols

Honored for : The Disruption of American Democracy

Bernard DeVoto

Honored for : Across the Wide Missouri

James Phinney Baxter III

Honored for : Scientists Against Time

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Honored for : The Age of Jackson

Stephen Bonsal

Honored for : Unfinished Business

Merle Curti

Honored for : The Growth of American Thought

Esther Forbes

Honored for : Paul Revere and the World He Lived In

Margaret Leech

Honored for : Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865

Marcus Lee Hansen

Honored for : The Atlantic Migration, 1607\u20131860

Carl Sandburg

Honored for : Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years

Frank Luther Mott

Honored for : A History of American Magazines

Paul Herman Buck

Honored for : The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900

Van Wyck Brooks

Honored for : The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865

Andrew C. McLaughlin

Honored for : A Constitutional History of the United States

Charles McLean Andrews

Honored for : The Colonial Period of American History

Herbert Agar

Honored for : The People's Choice from Washington to Harding

Frederick Jackson Turner

Honored for : The Significance of Sections in American History

John J. Pershing

Honored for : My Experiences in the World War

Bernadotte Everly Schmitt

Honored for : The Coming of the War, 1914

Claude H. Van Tyne

Honored for : The war of independence

Fred Albert Shannon

Honored for : The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865

Vernon Louis Parrington

Honored for : Main Currents in American Thought

Samuel Flagg Bemis

Honored for : Pinckney's treaty; America's advantage from Europe's distress, 1783-1800

Edward Channing

Honored for : A History of the United States

Frederic L. Paxson

Honored for : History of the American Frontier

Charles Howard McIlwain

Honored for : The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation

Charles Warren

Honored for : The Supreme Court in United States History

James Truslow Adams

Honored for : The Founding of New England

Burton J. Hendrick, William Sims

Honored for : The Victory at Sea

Justin Harvey Smith

Honored for : The War with Mexico

James Ford Rhodes

Honored for : A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865

Jean Jules Jusserand

Honored for : With Americans of Past and Present Days