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Pulitzer Prize for History

1917: J.J. Jusserand, With Americans of Past and Present Days
1918: James Ford Rhodes, A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
1919: no award given
1920: Justin H. Smith, The War with Mexico
1921: William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick. The Victory at Sea
1922: James Truslow Adams, The Founding of New England

1923: Charles Warren, The Supreme Court in United States History
1924: Charles Howard McIlwain, The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
1925: Frederic L. Paxson, History of the American Frontier
1926: Edward Channing, A History of the United States
1927: Samuel Flagg Bemis, Pinckney's Treaty
1928: Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought
1929: Fred Albert Shanoon, The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865
1930: Claude H. Van Tyne, The War of Independence
1931: Bernadotte E. Schmitt, The Coming of the War, 1914
1932: John J. Pershing, My Experiences in the World War
1933: Frederick J. Turner, The Significance of Sections in American History
1934: Herbert Agar, The People's Choice
1935: Charles McLean Andrews, The Colonial Period of American History
1936: Andrew C. McLaughlin, A Constitutional History of the United States
1937: Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865
1938: Paul Herman Buck, The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900
1939: Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines
1940: Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
1941: Marcus Lee Hansen, The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860
1942: Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865
1943: Esther Forbes, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
1944: Merle Curti, The Growth of American Thought
1945: Stephen Bonsal, Unfinished Business
1946: Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Jackson"
1947: James Phinney Baxter III, Scientists Against Time
1948: Bernard Devoto, Across the Wide Missouri
1949: Roy Franklin Nichols, The Disruption of American Democracy
1950: Oliver W. Larkin, Art and Life in America
1951: R. Carlyle Buley, The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840
1952: Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted
1953: George Dangerfield, The Era of Good Feelings
1954: Bruce Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox
1955: Paul Horgan, Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
1956: Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
1957: George F. Kennan, Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920
1958: Bray Hammond, Banks and Politics in America
1959: Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider, The Republican Era: l869-1901
1960: Margaret Leech, In the Days of McKinley
1961: Herbert Feis, Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference
1962: Lawrence H. Gipson, The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763-1766
1963: Constance McLaughlin Green, Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878
1964: Sumner Chilton Powell, Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
1965: Irwin Unger, The Greenback Era
1966: Perry Miller, The Life of the Mind in America
1967: William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
1968: Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
1969: Leonard W. Levy, Origins of the Fifth Amendment
1970: Dean Acheson, Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department
1971: James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom
1972: Carl N. Degler, Neither Black Nor White
1973: Michael Kammen, People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
1974: Daniel J. Boorstin[?], The Americans: The Democratic Experience
1975: Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time
1976: Paul Horgan, Lamy of Santa Fe
1977: David M. Potter and Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867
1978: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
1979: Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case
1980: Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long
1981: Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
1982: C. Vann Woodward (ed.), Mary Chesnut's Civil War
1983: Rhys L. Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
1984: no award given
1985: Thomas K. McGraw, Prophets of Regulation
1986: Walter A. McDougall, ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
1987: Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
1988: Robert V. Bruce, The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876
1989: James M. Mc.Pherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era and Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
1990: Stanley Karnow, In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
1991: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale
1992: Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
1993: Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
1994: no award given
1995: Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
1996: Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
1997: Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
1998: Edward J. Larson[?], Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
1999: Edwin G. Burrows[?] and Mike Wallace[?], Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
2000: David M. Kennedy[?], Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
2001: Joseph J. Ellis[?], Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
2002: Louis Menand[?], The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

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