Pulitzer Prize for History

The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States.

• 1917: With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand
• 1918: A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes
• 1919: no award given
• 1920: The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith
• 1921: The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick
• 1922: The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams
• 1923: The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren
• 1924: The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain
• 1925: History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson
• 1926: A History of the United States by Edward Channing
• 1927: Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis
• 1928: Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington
• 1929: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon
• 1930: The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne
• 1931: The Coming of the War, 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt
• 1932: My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing
• 1933: The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner
• 1934: The People's Choice by Herbert Agar
• 1935: The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews
• 1936: A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin
• 1937: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks
• 1938: The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck
• 1939: A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott
• 1940: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg
• 1941: The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen
• 1942: Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech
• 1943: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes
• 1944: The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti
• 1945: Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal
• 1946: The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• 1947: Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III
• 1948: Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
• 1949: The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols
• 1950: Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin
• 1951: The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley
• 1952: The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin
• 1953: The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
• 1954: A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
• 1955: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan
• 1956: The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
• 1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan
• 1958: Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond
• 1959: The Republican Era: 1869-1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider
• 1960: In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
• 1961: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis
• 1962: The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson
• 1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green
• 1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell
• 1965: The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger
• 1966: The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller
• 1967: Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann
• 1968: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
• 1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy
• 1970: Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson
• 1971: Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns
• 1972: Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler
• 1973: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen
• 1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
• 1975: Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone
• 1976: Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
• 1977: The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 by David M. Potter and Don E. Fehrenbacher
• 1978: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
• 1979: The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher
• 1980: Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
• 1981: American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin
• 1982: Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward
• 1983: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac
• 1984: no award given
• 1985: Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McGraw
• 1986: ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall
• 1987: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
• 1988: The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce
• 1989: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
• 1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
• 1990: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
• 1991: A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• 1992: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
• 1993: The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
• 1994: no award given
• 1995: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• 1996: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor
• 1997: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
• 1998: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
• 1999: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
• 2000: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
• 2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• 2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
• 2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
• 2004: A Nation Under Our Feet (ISBN 0674011694) by Steven Hahn
• 2005: Washington's Crossing (ISBN 0195170342) by David Hackett Fischer