Pulitzer Prize: History

• 2008 What Hath God Wrought Daniel Walker Howe
• 2007 The Race Beat Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
• 2006 Polio: An American Story David M. Oshinsky
• 2005 Washington's Crossing David Hackett Fischer
• 2004 A Nation under our feet: Black political struggles in the rural south from slavery to the great migration Steven Hahn
• 2003 An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 Rick Atkinson
• 2002 The Metaphysical Club: A Story of ideas in America Louis Menand
• 2001 Founding brothers: the revolutionary generation Joseph J. Ellis
• 2000 Freedom from fear: The American people in depression and war, 1929-1945 David M. Kennedy
• 1999 Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
• 1998 Summer for the gods: The Scope's Trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion Edward J. Larson
• 1997 Original meanings: Politics and ideas in the making of the Constitution Jack N. Rakove
• 1996 William Cooper’s town: power and persuasion on the frontier of the early American republic Alan Taylor
• 1995 No ordinary time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II Doris Kearns Goodwin
• 1994 No Award
• 1993 The Radicalism of the American Revolution Gordon S. Wood
• 1992 The Fate of liberty: Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties Mark E. Neely, Jr.
• 1991 A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary 1785-1812 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• 1990 In our image: America’s empire in the Philippines Stanley Karnow
• 1989 Battle cry of freedom: The Civil War Era James M McPherson; Parting the waters: America in the King years 1954-63 Taylor Branch
• 1988 The Launching of American science 1846-1876 Robert Bruce
• 1987 Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution Bernard Bailyn
• 1986 The Heavens and the earth: A political history of the Space Age Walter A. McDougall
• 1985 Prophets of regulation Thomas K. McCraw
• 1984 No Award
• 1983 The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 Rhys L. Isaac
• 1982 Mary Chesnut’s Civil War edited by C. Vann Woodward
• 1981 American education: The national experience, 1783-1876 Lawrence A. Cremin
• 1980 Been in the storm so long Leon F. Litwack
• 1979 The Dred Scott Case Don E. Fehrenbacher
• 1978 The Visible hand: The Managerial revolution in American business Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
• 1977 The Impending crisis David M. Potter (a posthumous publication) manuscript finished Don E. Fehrenbacher
• 1976 Lamy of Santa Fe Paul Horgan
• 1975 Jefferson and his time Vols. I-V Dumas Malone
• 1974 The Americans: The democratic experience Daniel J. Boorstein
• 1973 People of paradox: An Inquiry concerning the origins of American civilization Michael Kammen
• 1972 Neither black nor white Carl N. Degler
• 1971 Roosevelt, The soldier of freedom James MacGregor Burns
• 1970 Present at the creation: My years in the State Department Dean Acheson
• 1969 Origins of the Fifth Amendment Leonard W. Levy
• 1968 The Ideological origins of the American Revolution Bernard Bailyn
• 1967 Exploration and empire: The explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West William H. Goetzmann
• 1966 Life of the mind in America Perry Miller
• 1965 The Greenback era Irwin Unger
• 1964 Puritan village: The formation of a New England town Sumner Chilton Powell
• 1963 Washington village and capital, 1800-1878 Constance McLaughlin Green
• 1962 The Triumphant empire, Thunder-Clouds in the West Lawrence H. Gibson
• 1961 Between war and peace: The Potsdam Conference Herbert Feis
• 1960 In the days of McKinley Margaret Leech
• 1959 The Republican era: 1869-1901 Leonard D. White with the assistance of Jean Schneider
• 1958 Banks and politics in America Bray Hammond
• 1957 Russia leaves the war: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 George F. Kennan
• 1956 Age of reform Richard Hofstadter
• 1955 Great River: the Rio Grande in North American history Paul Horgan
• 1954 A Stillness at Appomattox Bruce Catton
• 1953 The Era of good feelings George Dangerfield
• 1952 The Uprooted Oscar Handlin
• 1951 The Old Northwest Pioneer period 1815-1840 R. Carlyle Buley
• 1950 Art and life in America Oliver W. Larkin
• 1949 The Disruption of American democracy Roy Franklin Nichols
• 1948 Across the wide Missouri Bernard DeVoto
• 1947 Scientists against time James Phinney Baxter III
• 1946 The Age of Jackson Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• 1945 Unfinished business Stephen Bonsal
• 1944 The Growth of American thought Merle Curti
• 1943 Paul Revere and the world he lived in Esther Forbes
• 1942 Reveille in Washington Margaret Leech
• 1941 The Atlantic migration, 1607-1860 Marcus Lee Hansen
• 1940 Abraham Lincoln: The War years Carl Sandburg
• 1939 A History of American magazines Frank Luther Mott
• 1938 The Road to reunion, 1856-1900 Paul Herman Buck
• 1937 The Flowering of New England Van Wyck Brooks
• 1936 The Constitutional history of the United States Andrew C. McLaughlin
• 1935 The Colonial period of American history Charles McLean Andrews
• 1934 The People’s choice Herbert Agar
• 1933 The Significance of sections in American history Frederick J. Turner
• 1932 My Experiences in the World War John J. Pershing
• 1931 The Coming of the War: 1914 Bernadotte E. Schmitt
• 1930 The War of Independence Claude H. Van Tyne
• 1929 The Organization and administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 Fred Albert Shannon
• 1928 Main currents in American thought (2 volumes) Vernon Louis Parrington
• 1927 Pickney’s Treaty Samuel Flagg Bemis
• 1926 The History of the United States Edward Canning
• 1925 A History of the American Frontier Frederic L. Paxson
• 1924 The American Revolution - A Constitutional interpretation Charles Howard McIlwain
• 1923 The Supreme Court in United States history Charles Warren
• 1922 The Founding of New England James Truslow Adams
• 1921 The Victory at sea William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick
• 1920 The War with Mexico (2 volumes) Justin H. Smith
• 1919 No Award
• 1918 A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 James Ford Rhodes
• 1917 With Americans of past and present days His Excellency J.J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to the United States