The Pulitzer Prize, started by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), is awarded each year for books published the previous year. During some years no award was given.

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. Oshinksy

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 and 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 : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

1994 – No award

1993 – The radicalism of the 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 of freedom : the Civil War era, by James M. McPherson and Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-1963, by Taylor Branch

1988 – The launching of modern American science, 1846-1976, 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 : Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn, by Thomas K. McCraw

1984 – No award

1983 – The transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, by Rhys L. Issac

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 : the aftermath of slavery, by Leon F. Litwack

1979 – The Dred Scott case : its significance in American law and politics, by Don E. Fehrenbacher

1978 – The visible hand : the managerial revolution in American business, by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

1977 – The impending crisis, 1848-1861 /, by David M. Potter

1976 – Lamy of Santa Fe, his life and times, by Paul Horgan

1975 – Jefferson and his time, by Dumas Malone

1974 – The Americans : the democratic experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin

1973 – People of paradox : an inquiry concerning the origins of American civilization, by Michael Kammen

1972 – Neither black nor white : slavery and race relations in Brazil and the United States, by Carl N. Degler

1971 – Roosevelt : the soldier of freedom, by James McGregor Burns

1970 – Present at the creation : my years in the State Department, by Dean Acheson

1969 – Origin 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 scientist in the winning of the American West, by William H. Goetzmann

1966 – Life of the mind in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War, 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 : thunderclouds gather 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 and Jean Schneider

1958 – Banks and politics in America : from the Revolution to the Civil War, by Bray Hammond

1957 – Russia leaves the war, by George F. Kennan

1956 – The 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 O. W. Larkin

1949 – The disruption of American democracy, by Roy F. Nichols

1948 – Across the wide Missouri, by Bernard De Voto

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 Curti

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 : a history of the continuing settlement of the United States, 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, 1865-1900, 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, from Washington to Harding : a study in democracy, by Herbert Agar

1933 – The significance of sections in American history, by Frederick J. Turner

1932 – My experiences in the world war, by Gen. 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 A. Shannon

1928 – Main currents in American thought : an interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920, by V. L. Parrington

1927 – Pinckney’s treaty : a study of America’s advantage from Europe’s distress, 1783-1800, by Samuel Flagg Bemis

1926 – A history of the United States, by Edward Channing

1925 – A history of the American frontier, 1763-1893, by Frederick L. Paxton

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

1920 – The war with Mexico, by Justin H. Smith

1919 – No award

1918 – History of the Civil War, by James Ford Rhodes

1917 – With Americans of past and present days, by J. J. Jusserand

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