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American History
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PULITZER PRIZE for American History
2008: What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
2007: Race Beat by Gene Roberts
2006: Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
2005: Washinton's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
2004: 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, Alan Taylor
1995: No Ordinary Time: Franlin & Eleanor Roosevelt
- The Home front in WW II, 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: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based
on Her Diary, 1785-1812, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1990: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines,
Stanley Karnow
1989: Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War Era, James M McPherson
1988: The Launching of American Science 1846-1876, Robert
Bruce
1987: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling
of America on the Eve of the Revolution, Bernard Bailyn
1986: ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History
of the Space Age, 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, 1783-1876,
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: The Managerial Revolution in
American Business, Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
1977: The Impending Crisis, David M. Potter (a posthumous
publication) manuscript finished Don E. Fehrenbacher
1976: Larry of Santa Fe, Paul Horgan
1975: Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V, Dumas Malone
1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience, Daniel
J. Boorstein
1973: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins
of American, Civilization, 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: The Explorer and the Scientist
in the Winning of the American West, William H. Goetzmann
1966: Life of the Mind in America, Perry Miller
1965: The Greenback Era, Irwin Unger
1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England
Town, 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
with the assistance of Jean Schneider
1958: Banks and Politics in America, Bray Hammond
1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations,
1917-1920, 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 Curti
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 and Administration of the Union
Army, 1861-1865, Fred Albert Shannon
1928: Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols., Vernon
Louis Parrington
1927: Pickney'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-A Constitutional Interpretation,
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 in collaboration
with Burton J. Hendrick
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
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FICTION:
2008: Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
2007: Road by Cormac McCarthy
2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael
Chabon
2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven
Millhauser
1996: Independence Day, Richard Ford
1995: The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
1994: The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain : Stories,
Robert Olen Butler
1992: A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
1991: Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
1990: The Mambo Kings Play, Oscar Hijuelos
1989: Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
1988: Beloved, Toni Morrison
1987: A Summons to Memphis, Peter Taylor
1986: Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
1985: Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie
1984: Ironweed, William Kennedy
1983: The Color Purple, Alice Walker
1982: Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
1981: A Confederacy, John Kennedy Toole
1980: The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer
1979: The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever
1978: Elbow Room, James Alan McPherson
1977: No award
1976: Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow
1975: The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
1974: No award
1973: The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty
1972: Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegne
1971: No award
1970: Collected Stories, Jean Stafford
1969: House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday
1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron
1967: The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
1966: Collected Stories of, Katherine Anne Porter
1965: The Keepers of the, Shirley Ann Grau
1964: No award
1963: The Reivers, William Faulkner
1962: The Edge of Sadness, Edwin O'Connor
1961: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
1960: Advise and Consent, Allen Drury
1959: The Travels of Jaimie, Robert Lewis Taylor
1958: A Death in the Family, James Agee
1957: No award
1956: Andersonville, MacKinlay Kantor
1955: A Fable, William Faulkner
1954: No award
1953: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
1952: The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk
1951: The Town, Conrad Richter
1950: The Way West, A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
1949: Guard of Honor, James Gould Cozzens
1948: Tales of the South, James A. Michener
1947: All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
1946: No award
1945: A Bell for Adano, John Hersey
1944: Journey in the Dark, Martin Flavin
1943: Dragon's Teeth, Upton Sinclair
1942: In This Our Life, Ellen Glasgow
1941: No award
1940: The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
1939: The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938: The Late George Apley, John P. Marquand
1937: Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
1936: Honey in the Horn, Harold L. Davis
1935: Now in November, Josephine W. Johnson
1934: Lamb in His Bosom, Caroline Miller
1933: The Store, T. S. Stribling
1932: The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
1931: Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes
1930: Laughing Boy, Oliver LaFarge
1929: Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia M. Peterkin
1928: Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
1927: Early Autumn, Louis Bromfield
1926: Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis (refused prize)
1925: So Big, Edna Ferber
1924: The Able McLaughlins, Margaret Wilson
1923: One of Ours, Willa Cather
1922: Alice Adams, Booth Tarkington
1921: The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
1920: No award
1919: The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
1918: His Family, Ernest Poole
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BIOGRAPHIES
2008:Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson
2007: Most Famous Man in America by Debby
Applegate
2006: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert
Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
2005: de Koonig: an American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn
Swan
2004: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
2003: Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
2002: John Adams by David McCullough
2001: W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American
Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis
2000: Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff
1999: Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
1998: Personal History by Katharine Graham
1997: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
1996: God: A Biography, Jack Miles
1995: Harriet Beecher Stowe:A Life, Joan D. Hedrick
1994: W.E.B. DuBois, D. Lewis
1993: Truman, David McCullough
1992: Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet, Lewis
B. Puller
1991: Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, Steven Naifeh
and Gregory White Small
1990: Machiavelli in Hell, Sebastian Grazia
1989: Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellmann
1988: Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolf, David Herbert
Donald
1987: Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and
the Southern Christian, Leadership Conference, David J. Garrow
1986: Louise Bogan: A Portrait, Elizabeth Frank
1985: The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, Kenneth Silverman
1984: Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915,
Louis R. Harlan
1983: Growing Up, Russell Baker
1982: Girant: A Biography, William S. McFeely
1981: Peter the Great: His Life and World, Robert K.
Massie
1980: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
1979: Days of Sarrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin
Jews, Leonard Baker
1978: Samuel Johnson, Walter Jackson Bate
1977: A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence,
John E. Mack
1976: Edith Wharton: A Biography, R.W.B. Lewis
1975: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of
New York, Robert Caro
1974: O'Neill, Son and Artist, Louis Sheaffer
1973: Luce and His Empire, W.A. Swanberg
1972: Eleanor and Franklin, Joseph P. Lash
1971: Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938,
Lawrence Thompson
1970: Huey Long, T. Harry Williams
1969: The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends,
Benjamin Lawrence Reid
1968: Memoirs, George F. Kennan
1967: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, Justin Kaplan
1966: A Thousand Days, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1965: Henry Adams, three volumes Ernest Samuels
1964: John Keats, Walter Jackson Bate
1963: Henry James, Leon Edel
1962: No Award
1961: Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War,
David Donald
1960: John Paul Jones, Samuel Eliot Morison
1959: Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet, Arthur Walworth
1958: George Washington Volumes I-VI, Douglas S. Freeman
Volume VII, John Alexander Carroll, Mary Wells Ashworth
1957: Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy
1956: Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
1955: The Taft Story, William S. White
1954: The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh
1953: Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, David J. Mays
1952: Charles Evans Hughes, Merlo J. Pusey
1951: John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, Margaret Louise
Coit
1950: John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American
Foreign Policy, Samuel Flagg Bemis
1949: Roosevelt and Hopkins, Robert E. Sherwood
1948: Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow, Margaret
Clapp
1947: The Autobiography of William Allen White, William
Allen White
1946: Son of the Wilderness, Linnie Marsh Wolfe
1945: George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel, Russell Blaine
Nye
1944: The American Leonardo: the Life of Samuel F.B.
Morse, Carlton Mabee
1943: Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison
1942: Crusader in Crinoline, Forrest Wilson
1941: Jonathan Edwards, Ola Elizabeth Winslow
1940: Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters, Volumes VII and
VIII Ray Stannard Baker
1939: Benjamin Franklin, Carl Van Doren
1938: Andrew Jackson, 2 volumes, Marquis James Pedlar's
Progress, Odell Shepard
1937: Hamilton Fish, Allan Nevins
1936: The Thought and Character of William James, Ralph
Barton Perry
1935: R.E. Lee, Douglas S. Freeman
1934: John Hay, Tyler Dennett
1933: Grover Cleveland, Allan Nevins
1932: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry F. Pringle
1931: Charles W. Eliot, Henry James
1930: The Raven, Marquis James
1929: The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and
Letters of Walter H. Page, Burton J. Hendrick
1928: The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas, Charles
Edward Russell
1927: Whitman, Emory Holloway
1926: The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 volumes, Harvey
Cushing
1925: Barrett Wendell and His Letter, M.A. DeWolfe Howe
1924: From Immigrant to Inventor, Michael Idvorsky Pupin
1923: The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Burton
J. Hendrick
1922: A Daughter of the Middle Border, Hamlin Garland
1921: The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok
1920: The Life of John Marshall, 4 volumes, Albert J.
Beveridge
1919: The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams
1918: Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, William Cabell
Bruce
1917: Laura E. Richards, Maude Howe Elliott, and Florence
Howe Hall. Julia Ward Howe
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NON-FICTION
2008: Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander
2007: Looming Tower by Lauwrence Wright
2006: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag
in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
2005: Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
2004: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
2003: A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by
Samantha Power
2002: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle
of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
2001: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
2000: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by
John W. Dower
1999: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
1998: Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by
Jared Diamond
1997: Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The
Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
1996: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism,
Tina Rosenberg
1995: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in
Our Time, Jonathan Weiner
1994: Lenin's Tomb, David Remnick
1993: Lincoln at Gettysburg, Garry Wills
1992: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money &
Power, Daniel Yergin
1991: The Ants, Bert Holldobler, and Edward O. Wilson
1990: And Their Children After Them, Dale Maharidge,
and Michael Williamson
1989: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America
in Vietnam, Neil Sheehan
1988: The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
1987: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land,
David K. Shipler
1986: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives
of Three American Families, J. Anthony Lucas
1985: The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two,
Studs Terkel
1984: The Social Transformation of American Medicine,
Paul Starr
1983: Is There No Place on Earth for Me, Susan Sheehan
1982: The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
1981: Fin-de Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture, Carl
E. Schorske
1980: Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas
R. Hofstadter
1979: On Human Nature, Edward O. Wilson
1978: The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan
1977: Beautiful Swimmers, William W. Warner
1976: Why Survive Being Old in America, Robert N. Butler
1975: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
1974: The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker
1973: Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III, Robert Coles
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, Francis
FitzGerald
1972: Stilwell and the American Experience in China,
1911-1945, Barbara W. Tuchman
1971: The Rising Sun, John Toland
1970: Ghandhi's Truth, Erik H. Erikson
1969: The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer So Human
An Animal, Rene Jules Dubos
1968: Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth and concluding
volume of The Story of Civilization, Will Duran and Ariel Durant
1967: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, David
Brion Davis
1966: Wandering Through Winter, Edwin Way Teale
1965: O Strange New World, Howard Mumford Jones
1964: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard
Hofstadter
1963: The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman
1962: The Making of the President 1960, Theodore H. White