Pulitzer Prize - History
2008 - What God Hath 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, Stephen Hahn
2003 - An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Rick Atkinson
2002 - The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, Louis Menand
2001 - Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis
2000 - Freedom from Fear, David M. Kennedy
1999 - Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
1998 - Summer for the Gods, Edward J. Larson
1997 - Original Meanings, Jack N. Rakove
1996 - William Cooper's Town, Alan Taylor
1995 - No Ordinary Time, 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, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1990 - In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines, Stanley Karnow
1989 - Battle Cry of Freedom, James M. McPherson
1989 - Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, Taylor Branch
1988 - The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1976, Robert V. Bruce
1987 - Voyagers to the West, Bernard Bailyn
1986 - The Heavens and the Earth, 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, C. Vann Woodward
1981 - American Education: The National Experience, 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, Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
1977 - The Impending Crisis, David M. Potter
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. Boorstin
1973 - People of Paradox, 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, William H. Goetzmann
1966 - Life of the Mind in America, Perry Miller
1965 - The Greenback Era, Irwin Unger
1964 - Puritan Village, 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
1958 - Banks and Politics in America, Bray Hammond
1957 - Russia Leaves the War, 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 Curtis
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 & Administration of the Union Army, Fred Shannon
1928 - Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols., Vernon Louis Parrington
1927 - Pinckney'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, 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
1920 - The War with Mexico, 2 vols., 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, J.J. Jusserand
