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The
Pulitzer Prize Winners - History
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 1917 |
With Americans of Past and Present Days by His Excellency J.J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to the United States (Scribner) |
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1918 |
A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes (Macmillan) |
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1919 |
(No Award) |
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1920 |
The War with Mexico, 2 vols. by Justin H. Smith (Macmillan) |
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1921 |
The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick (Doubleday) |
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1922 |
The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams (Little) |
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1923 |
The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren (Little) |
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1924 |
The American Revolution -- A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain (Macmillan) |
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1925 |
History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson (Houghton) |
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1926 |
A History of the United States by Edward Channing (Macmillan) |
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1927 |
Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Johns Hopkins) |
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1928 |
Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. by Vernon Louis Parrington (Harcourt) |
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1929 |
The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon (A.H. Clark) |
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1930 |
The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne (Houghton) |
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1931 |
The Coming of the War 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt (Scribner) |
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1932 |
My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing (Stokes) |
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1933 |
The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner (Holt) |
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1934 |
The People's Choice by Herbert Agar (Houghton) |
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1935 |
The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews (Yale Univ. Press) |
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1936 |
A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin (Appleton) |
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1937 |
The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks (Dutton) |
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1938 |
The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck (Little) |
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1939 |
A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott (Harvard Univ. Press) |
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1940 |
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt) |
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1941 |
The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen (Harvard Univ. Press) |
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1942 |
Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech (Harper) |
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1943 |
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes (Houghton) |
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1944 |
The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti (Harper) |
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1945 |
Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal (Doubleday) |
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1946 |
The Age of Jackson by Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (Little) |
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1947 |
Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter 3rd (Little) |
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1948 |
Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard Devoto (Houghton) |
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1949 |
The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols (Macmillan) |
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1950 |
Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (Rinehart) |
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1951 |
The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley (Towers, Inc.) |
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1952 |
The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin (Little) |
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1953 |
The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield (Harcourt) |
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1954 |
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (Doubleday) |
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1955 |
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan (Rinehart) |
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1956 |
The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter (Knopf) |
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1957 |
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-192O by George F. Kennan (Princeton Univ. Press) |
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1958 |
Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond (Princeton Univ. Press) |
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1959 |
The Republican Era: l869-1901 by Leonard D. White, with the assistance of Miss Jean Schneider (Macmillan) |
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1960 |
In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (Harper) |
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1961 |
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis (Princeton Univ. Press) |
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1962 |
The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson (Knopf) |
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1963 |
Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green (Princeton Univ. Press) |
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1964 |
Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell (Wesleyan Univ. Press) |
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1965 |
The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (Princeton Univ. Press) |
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1966 |
The Life of the Mind in America by the late Perry Miller (Harcourt) |
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1967 |
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann (Knopf) |
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1968 |
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (Harvard Univ. Press) |
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1969 |
Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy (Oxford Univ. Press) |
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1970 |
Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson (Norton) |
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1971 |
Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns (Harcourt) |
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1972 |
Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler (Macmillan) |
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1973 |
People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen (Knopf) |
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1974 |
The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin (Random) |
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1975 |
Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V by Dumas Malone (Little) |
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1976 |
Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan (Farrar) |
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1977 |
The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 by David M. Potter (Harper), a posthumous publication. Manuscript finished by Don E. Fehrenbacher |
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1978 |
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (Harvard Univ. Press) |
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1979 |
The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher (Oxford Univ. Press) |
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1980 |
Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack (Knopf) |
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1981 |
American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin (Harper & Row) |
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1982 |
Mary Chesnut's Civil War (Yale U. Press) by edited by C. Vann Woodward |
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1983 |
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac (U. North Carolina Press) |
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1984 |
(No Award) |
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1985 |
Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw (Belknap/Harvard) |
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1986 |
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall (Basic Books) |
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1987 |
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1988 |
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1989 |
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson (Oxford University Press) |
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1989 |
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon and Schuster) |
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1990 |
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow (Random House) |
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1991 |
A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1992 |
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr. (Oxford University Press) |
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1993 |
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1994 |
(No Award) |
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1995 |
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster) |
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1996 |
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1997 |
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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1998 |
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson (BasicBooks) |
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1999 |
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (Oxford University Press) |
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2000 |
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy (Oxford University Press |
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2001 |
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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2002 |
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |