Pulitzer Prize for History

The Pulitzer Prize for History ( Pulitzer Prize for History ) will be awarded for the best book on American history since 1917. 1919, 1984 and 1994, there were no winners.

List of winners

1917-1919

1920-1929

1930-1939

1940-1949

1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

1990-1999

2000-2009

  • 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 Ellis
  • 2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
  • 2004: A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
  • 2005: Washington 's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
  • 2006: Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
  • 2007: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
  • 2008: What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
  • 2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon - Reed

2010 -

  • 2010: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
  • 2011: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
  • 2012: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
  • 2013: Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
Jean Jules Jusserand James Ford Rhodes Burton J. Hendrick James Truslow Adams Edward Channing Charles McLean Andrews Andrew C. McLaughlin Van Wyck Brooks Carl Sandburg Esther Forbes Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. George Dangerfield Bruce Catton Richard Hofstadter Perry Miller Dean Acheson James MacGregor Burns Dumas Malone David M. Potter Don E. Fehrenbacher C. Vann Woodward James M. McPherson Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Gordon S. Wood Doris Kearns Goodwin David M. Kennedy (historian)
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