LibGuides: Check Out a Champion: Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature: History

SSPL Holdings (2010 - present)

2025 Winner:
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
by Kathleen DuVal
Call Number: 970.0049 Duv
*shelved in New / Popular*

ISBN: 9780525511038

Publication Date: 2024-04-09
2023 Winner:
Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
by Jefferson Cowie
Call Number: 305.8 Cow

ISBN: 9781541672802

Publication Date: 2022-11-22
2022 Winner:
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
by Nicole Eustace
Call Number: 364.1523 Eus

ISBN: 9781631495878

Publication Date: 2021-04-27
2022 Winner:
Cuba: An American History
by Ada Ferrer
Call Number: [may be available as a print book through Interlibrary Loan]
Available as a CD Audiobook from SSPL

ISBN: 9781501154553

Publication Date: 2021-09-07
2021 Winner:
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
by Marcia Chatelain
Call Number: 338.7097 Cha

ISBN: 9781631493942

Publication Date: 2020-01-07
2019 Winner:
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
by David W. Blight
Call Number: B Douglass

ISBN: 9781416590316

Publication Date: 2018-10-16
2018 Winner:
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
by Jack E. Davis
Call Number: 909.0963 Dav

ISBN: 9780871408662

Publication Date: 2017-03-14
2017 Winner:
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
by Heather Ann Thompson
Call Number: 365.9747 Tho

ISBN: 9780375423222

Publication Date: 2016-08-23
2016 Winner:
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
by T. J. Stiles
Call Number: B Custer

ISBN: 9780307592644

Publication Date: 2015-10-27
2013 Winner:
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
by Fredrik Logevall
Call Number: 959.7041 Log

ISBN: 9780375504426

Publication Date: 2012-08-21
2012 Winner:
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable
Call Number: [may be available as a print book through Interlibrary Loan]
Available as an eBook from SSPL

ISBN: 9780670022205

Publication Date: 2011-04-04
2010 Winner:
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed
Call Number: [may be available as a print book through Interlibrary Loan]
Available as an eBook from SSPL

ISBN: 9781594201820

Publication Date: 2009-01-22

SSPL Holdings (1917 - 2009)

2009 Winner:
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Call Number: [may be available as a print book through Interlibrary Loan]
Available as an eAudiobook from SSPL

ISBN: 9780393064773

Publication Date: 2008-09-17
2008 Winner:
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
by Daniel Walker Howe
Call Number: 973.5 How

ISBN: 9780195078947

Publication Date: 2007-10-29
2005 Winner:
Washington's Crossing
by David Hackett Fischer
Call Number: 973.3 Fis

ISBN: 0195170342

Publication Date: 2004-02-12
2003 Winner:
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
by Rick Atkinson
Call Number: 940.54 Atk

ISBN: 9780805062885

Publication Date: 2002-10-02
1999 Winner:
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
Call Number: 974.71 Bur

ISBN: 0195140494

Publication Date: 2000-10-19
1996 Winner:
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
by Alan Taylor
Call Number: 974.774 Tay

ISBN: 0394580540

Publication Date: 1995-09-26
1995 Winner:
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Call Number: B Roosevelt

ISBN: 0684804484

Publication Date: 1995-10-01
1991 Winner:
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Call Number: B Ballard

ISBN: 0679733760

Publication Date: 1991-06-04
1989 Winner:
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson
Call Number: [may be available as a print book through Interlibrary Loan]
Available as a Hoopla eAudiobook from SSPL

ISBN: 0195159012

Publication Date: 2003-11-06
1960 Winner:
In the Days of McKinley
by Margaret Leech
Call Number: S FSC B MCKINLEY
(Saratoga Room, non-circulating)
1954 Winner:
A Stillness at Appomattox
by Bruce Catton
Call Number: [may be available as a print book through Interlibrary Loan]
Available as a CD Audiobook from SSPL

ISBN: 0385044518

Publication Date: 1990-08-01
1940 Winner:
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
by Carl. Sandburg
Call Number: B Lincoln

ISBN: 9781402742880

Publication Date: 2007-11-01

Winners from Other Years (1966 - present)

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to see if a copy can be located
through Interlibrary Loan!

Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
by Edda L. Fields-Black
Year Won: 2025
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
by Jacqueline Jones
Year Won: 2024
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
by W. Caleb McDaniel
Year Won: 2020
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Year Won: 2015
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
by Alan Taylor
Year Won: 2014
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
by Eric Foner
Year Won: 2011
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
Year Won: 2007
Polio: An American Story
by David M. Oshinsky
Year Won: 2006
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
by Steven Hahn
Year Won: 2004
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand
Year Won: 2002
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph J. Ellis
Year Won: 2001
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
by David M. Kennedy
Year Won: 2000
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
by Edward J. Larson
Year Won: 1998
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
by Jack N. Rakove
Year Won: 1997
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
by Gordon S. Wood
Year Won: 1993
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
by Mark E. Neely
Year Won: 1992
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
by Stanley Karnow
Year Won: 1990
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
by Taylor Branch
Year Won: 1989
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876
by Robert V. Bruce
Year Won: 1988
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
by Bernard Bailyn
Year Won: 1987
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
by Walter A. McDougall
Year Won: 1986
Prophets of Regulation
by Thomas K. McCraw
Year Won: 1985
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
by Rhys L. Isaac
Year Won: 1983
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
by C. Vann Woodward
Year Won: 1982
American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
by Lawrence A. Cremin
Year Won: 1981
Been in the Storm So Long
by Leon F. Litwack
Year Won: 1980
The Dred Scott Case
by Don E. Fehrenbacher
Year Won: 1979
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
by Alfred D. Chandler
Year Won: 1978
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
by David M. Potter
Year Won: 1977
Lamy of Santa Fe
by Paul Horgan
Year Won: 1976
Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V
by Dumas Malone
Year Won: 1975
The Americans: The Democratic Experience
by Daniel J. Boorstin
Year Won: 1974
People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
by Michael Kammen
Year Won: 1973
Neither Black Nor White
by Carl N. Degler
Year Won: 1972
Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom
by James MacGregor Burns
Year Won: 1971
Present at the Creation: My Years In The State Department
by Dean Acheson
Year Won: 1970
Origins of the Fifth Amendment
by Leonard W. Levy
Year Won: 1969
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
by Bernard Bailyn
Year Won: 1968
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
by William H. Goetzmann
Year Won: 1967
The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War
by Perry Miller
Year Won: 1966

Winners from Other Years (1917 - 1965)

The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879
by Irwin Unger
Year Won: 1965
Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
by Sumner Chilton Powell
Year Won: 1964
Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878
by Constance McLaughlin Green
Year Won: 1964
The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766
by Lawrence H. Gipson
Year Won: 1962
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference
by Herbert Feis
Year Won: 1961
The Republican Era: l869-1901
by Leonard D. White
Year Won: 1959
Banks and Politics in America
by Bray Hammond
Year Won: 1958
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-192O
by George F. Kennan
Year Won: 1957
The Age of Reform
by Richard Hofstadter
Year Won: 1956
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
by Paul Horgan
Year Won: 1955
The Era of Good Feelings
by George Dangerfield
Year Won: 1953
The Uprooted
by Oscar Handlin
Year Won: 1952
The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840
by R. Carlyle Buley
Year Won: 1951
Art and Life in America
by Oliver W. Larkin
Year Won: 1950
The Disruption of American Democracy
by Roy Franklin Nichols
Year Won: 1949
Across the Wide Missouri
by Bernard Devoto
Year Won: 1948
Scientists Against Time
by James Phinney Baxter III
Year Won: 1947
The Age of Jackson
by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Year Won: 1946
Unfinished Business
by Stephen Bonsal
Year Won: 1945
The Growth of American Thought
by Merle Curti
Year Won: 1944
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
by Esther Forbes
Year Won: 1943
Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865
by Margaret Leech
Year Won: 1942
The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860
by Marcus Lee Hansen
Year Won: 1941
A History of American Magazines
by Frank Luther Mott
Year Won: 1939
The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900
by Paul Herman Buck
Year Won: 1938
The Flowering of New England 1815-1865
by Van Wyck Brooks
Year Won: 1937
A Constitutional History of the United States
by Andrew C. McLaughlin
Year Won: 1936
The Colonial Period of American History
by Charles McLean Andrews
Year Won: 1935
The People's Choice
by Herbert Agar
Year Won: 1934
The Significance of Sections in American History
by Frederick J. Turner
Year Won: 1933
My Experiences in the World War
by John J. Pershing
Year Won: 1932
The Coming of the War 1914
by Bernadotte E. Schmitt
Year Won: 1931
The Founding of the American Republic, Volume II: The War of Independence: American Phase
by Claude H. Van Tyne
Year Won: 1930
The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865
by Fred Albert Shannon
Year Won: 1929
Main Currents in American Thought
by Vernon Louis Parrington
Year Won: 1928
Pinckney's Treaty
by Samuel Flagg Bemis
Year Won: 1927
A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence, 1849-1865
by Edward Channing
Year Won: 1926
History of the American Frontier
by Frederic L. Paxson
Year Won: 1925
The American Revolution -- A Constitutional Interpretation
by Charles Howard McIlwain
Year Won: 1924
The Supreme Court in United States History
by Charles Warren
Year Won: 1923
The Founding of New England
by James Truslow Adams
Year Won: 1922
The Victory at Sea
by William Sowden Sims
Year Won: 1921
The War with Mexico
by Justin H. Smith
Year Won: 1920
History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
by James Ford Rhodes
Year Won: 1918
With Americans of Past and Present Days
by His Excellency J.J. Jusserand
Year Won: 1917

Check Out a Champion: Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature: History

The Award

The Pulitzer Prize in History was first awarded in 1917. It is awarded for “a distinguished and appropriately documented book on
the history of the United States.” See also: winners in the Biography, Memoir/Autobiography, and General Nonfiction categories.

“History.” The Pulitzer Prizes. Columbia University, 2024. Web. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/220.

SSPL Holdings (2010 - present)

SSPL Holdings (1917 - 2009)

Winners from Other Years (1966 - present)

Ask at the Reference Desk (ext. 304)
to see if a copy can be located
through Interlibrary Loan!

Winners from Other Years (1917 - 1965)

Check Out a Champion: Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature: History

The Award

The Pulitzer Prize in History was first awarded in 1917. It is awarded for “a distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States.” See also: winners in the Biography, Memoir/Autobiography, and General Nonfiction categories.

“History.” The Pulitzer Prizes. Columbia University, 2024. Web. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/220.

SSPL Holdings (2010 - present)

SSPL Holdings (1917 - 2009)

Winners from Other Years (1966 - present)

Ask at the Reference Desk (ext. 304) to see if a copy can be located through Interlibrary Loan!

Winners from Other Years (1917 - 1965)

The Pulitzer Prize in History was first awarded in 1917. It is awarded for “a distinguished and appropriately documented book on
the history of the United States.” See also: winners in the Biography, Memoir/Autobiography, and General Nonfiction categories.

Ask at the Reference Desk (ext. 304)
to see if a copy can be located
through Interlibrary Loan!