Pulitzer Prize for History
All the books on the list "Pulitzer Prize for History" from Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. Many history books have also been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Two people have won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice; Margaret Leech, for Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 in 1941 and In the Days of McKinley in 1960, and Bernard Bailyn, for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1968) and Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (1987).
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The Hemingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed · 2008 · 2 lists
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What Hath God Wrought
Daniel Walker Howe · 2007 · 1 list
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The Race Beat
Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff · 2006 · 1 list
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Polio
David M. Oshinsky · 2005 · 1 list
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Jefferson and His Time
Dumas Malone · 1948 · 2 lists
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Battle Cry of Freedom
James M. McPherson · 1988 · 3 lists
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Parting the Waters
Taylor Branch · 1988 · 5 lists
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The Age of Reform
Richard Hofstadter · 1955 · 2 lists
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A Stillness at Appomattox
Bruce Catton · 1953 · 2 lists
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Washington's Crossing
David Hackett Fischer · 2004 · 2 lists
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A Nation under Our Feet
Steven Hahn · 2003 · 1 list
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An Army at Dawn
Rick Atkinson · 2002 · 1 list
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The Metaphysical Club
Louis Menand · 2001 · 2 lists
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Founding Brothers
Joseph Ellis · 2000 · 1 list
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Freedom From Fear
David M. Kennedy · 1999 · 1 list
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Gotham
Edwin G. Burrows · 1998 · 1 list
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Summer for the Gods
Edward Larson · 1997 · 1 list
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Original Meanings
Jack N. Rakove · 1996 · 1 list
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William Cooper's Town
Alan Taylor · 1995 · 1 list
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No Ordinary Time
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 1994 · 1 list
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood · 1993 · 1 list
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The Fate of Liberty
Mark E. Neely Jr. · 1991 · 1 list
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A Midwife's Tale
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich · 1990 · 1 list
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In Our Image
Stanley Karnow · 1989 · 1 list
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With Americans of Past and Present Days
Jean Jules Jusserand · 2007 · 1 list
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A History of the Civil War
James Ford Rhodes · 1980 · 1 list
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The War with Mexico
Justin H. Smith · 1919 · 1 list
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The Victory at Sea
William Sowden Sims · 1920 · 1 list
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The Founding of New England
James Truslow Adams · 1921 · 1 list
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The Supreme Court in United States History
Charles Warren · 1926 · 1 list
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The American Revolution
George Otto Trevelyan · 1899 · 2 lists
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History of the American Frontier
Frederic L. Paxson · 1924 · 1 list
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A History of the United States
Edward Channing · 1900 · 1 list
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Pinckney's Treaty
Samuel Flagg Bemis · 1960 · 1 list
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Main Currents in American Thought
Vernon L. Parrington · 1987 · 2 lists
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The War of Independence
Claude H. Van Tyne · 1922 · 1 list
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The Coming of the War, 1914
Bernadotte E. Schmitt · 1966 · 1 list
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My Experiences in the World War
John J. Pershing · 1931 · 1 list
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The People's Choice
Herbert Agar · 1933 · 1 list
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The Colonial Period of American History
Charles McLean Andrews · 1934 · 1 list
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The Flowering of New England
Van Wyck Brooks · 1936 · 1 list
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The Road to Reunion
Paul Herman Buck · 1937 · 1 list
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A History of American Magazines
Frank Luther Mott · 1930 · 1 list
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Abraham Lincoln
George S. McGovern · 2009 · 1 list
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The Atlantic Migration
Marcus Lee Hansen · 1940 · 1 list
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Reveille in Washington
Margaret Leech · 1941 · 1 list
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Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
Esther Forbes · 1942 · 1 list
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The Growth of American Thought
Merle Curti · 1943 · 1 list
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Unfinished Business
Stephen Bonsal · 1944 · 1 list
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The Age of Jackson
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. · 1945 · 2 lists
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Scientists Against Time
James Phinney Baxter III · 1946 · 1 list
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Across The Wide Missouri
Bernard DeVoto · 1947 · 1 list
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The Disruption of American Democracy
Roy Franklin Nichols · 1948 · 1 list
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Art and Life in America
Oliver W. Larkin · 1949 · 1 list
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The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840
R. Carlyle Buley · 1962 · 1 list
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The Uprooted
Oscar Handlin · 1951 · 1 list
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The Era of Good Feelings
George Dangerfield · 1952 · 1 list
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Great River
Paul Horgan · 1954 · 1 list
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Russia Leaves the War
George F. Kennan · 1956 · 2 lists
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Banks and Politics in America
Bray Hammond · 1957 · 1 list
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The Republican Era
Leonard D. White, Jean Schneider · 1965 · 1 list
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In the Days of McKinley
Margaret Leech · 1959 · 1 list
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Between War and Peace
Herbert Feis · 1960 · 1 list
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The Triumphant Empire
Lawrence H. Gipson · 1961 · 1 list
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Puritan Village
Sumner Chilton Powell · 1963 · 1 list
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The Greenback Era
Irwin Unger · 1899 · 1 list
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The Life of the Mind in America
Perry Miller · 1965 · 1 list
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Exploration and Empire
William H. Goetzmann · 1966 · 1 list
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Bernard Bailyn · 1967 · 1 list
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Origins of the Fifth Amendment
Leonard W. Levy · 1968 · 1 list
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Present at the Creation
Dean Acheson · 1969 · 2 lists
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Roosevelt
James MacGregor Burns · 1956 · 1 list
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Neither Black Nor White
Carl N. Degler · 1971 · 1 list
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People of Paradox
Michael Kammen · 1972 · 1 list
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The Americans
Robert Frank · 1958 · 1 list
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Lamy of Santa Fe
Paul Horgan · 1975 · 1 list
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The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867
David M. Potter · 1976 · 1 list
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The Visible Hand
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. · 1977 · 1 list
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The Dred Scott Case
Don E. Fehrenbacher · 1978 · 1 list
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Been in the Storm So Long
Leon F. Litwack · 1979 · 1 list
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American Education
Lawrence A. Cremin · 1970 · 1 list
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
Mary Boykin Chesnut · 1981 · 2 lists
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The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Rhys L. Isaac · 1982 · 1 list
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Prophets of Regulation
Thomas K. McCraw · 1984 · 1 list
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The Heavens and the Earth
Walter A. McDougall · 1985 · 1 list
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Voyagers to the West
Bernard Bailyn · 1986 · 1 list
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Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed · 2009 · 2 lists
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The Fiery Trial
Eric Foner · 2002 · 1 list
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Malcolm X
Manning Marable · 2011 · 2 lists
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Embers of War
Fredrik Logevall · 2012 · 1 list
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The Internal Enemy
Alan Taylor · 2013 · 1 list
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Encounters at the Heart of the World
Elizabeth A. Fenn · 2014 · 1 list
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Custer's Trials
T. J. Stiles · 2015 · 1 list
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Blood in the Water
Taylor Anderson · 2016 · 1 list
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The Gulf
Jack E. Davis · 2017 · 2 lists
