Pulitzer Prize for History

2015: Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn.
2014: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor.
2013: Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall.
2012: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable.
2011: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner..
2010: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed.
2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed.
2008: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe.
2007: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff.
2006: Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky.
2005: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer.
2004: A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn.
2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson.
2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand.
2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis.
2000: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy.
1999: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace.
1998: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson.
1997: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove.
1996: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor.
1995: No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
1994: No Award
1993: The Radicalism of then American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood.
1992: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
1991: A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
1990: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow.
1989: Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War by James McPherson.
1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch.
1988: The Launching of American Science 1846-1876 by Robert Bruce.
1987: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn.
1986: ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall.
1985: Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw.
1984: No Award
1983: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac.
1982: Mary Chesnut's Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward.
1981: American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin.
1980: Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack.
1979: The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher.
1978: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler Jr..
1977: The Impending Crisis by David M. Potter (a posthumous publication) manuscript finished by Don E. Fehrenbacher.
1976: Larry of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan.
1975: Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V by Dumas Malone.
1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstein.
1973: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen.
1972: Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler.
1971: Roosevelt, The Soldier of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns.
1970: Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson.
1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy.
1968: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn.
1967: Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann.
1966: Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller.
1965: The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger.
1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell.
1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green.
1962: The Triumphant Empire, Thunder-Clouds in the West by Lawrence H. Gibson.
1961: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis.
1960: In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech.
1959: The Republican Era: 1869-1901 by Leonard D. White with the assistance of Jean Schneider.
1958: Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond.
1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan.
1956: Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter.
1955: Great River: the Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan.
1954: A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton.
1953: The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield.
1952: The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin.
1951: The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley.
1950: Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin.
1949: The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols.
1948: Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto.
1947: Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III.
1946: The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1945: Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal.
1944: The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curtis.
1943: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes.
1942: Reveille in Washington by Margaret Leech.
1941: The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen.
1940: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg.
1939: A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott.
1938: The Road to Reunion, 1856-1900 by Paul Herman Buck.
1937: The Flowering of New England by Van Wyck Brooks.
1936: The Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin.
1935: The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews.
1934: The People's Choice by Herbert Agar.
1933: The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner.
1932: My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing.
1931: The Coming of the War: 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt.
1930: The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne.
1929: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon.
1928: Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. by Vernon Louis Parrington.
1927: Pickney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis.
1926: The History of the United States by Edward Canning.
1925: A History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson.
1924: The American Revolution-A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain.
1923: The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren.
1922: The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams.
1921: The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick.
1920: The War with Mexico, 2 vols. by Justin H. Smith.
1919: No Award
1918: A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes.
1917: With Americans of Past and Present Days by J.J. Jusserand.