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Pulitzer Prize Winners for History
1910s
| 1917 | With Americans of Past and Present Days by His Excellency J.J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to the United States |
| 1918 | A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes |
| 1919 | No award given |
1920s
| 1920 | The War with Mexico, 2 vols. by Justin H. Smith |
| 1921 | The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick |
| 1922 | The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams |
| 1923 | The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren |
| 1924 | The American Revolution -- A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain |
| 1925 | History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson |
| 1926 | A History of the United States by Edward Channing |
| 1927 | Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis |
| 1928 | Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. by Vernon Louis Parrington |
| 1929 | The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon |
| 1930 | The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne |
| 1931 | The Coming of the War 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt |
| 1932 | My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing |
| 1933 | The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner |
| 1934 | The People's Choice by Herbert Agar |
| 1935 | The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews |
| 1936 | A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin |
| 1937 | The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks |
| 1938 | The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck |
| 1939 | A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott |
| 1940 | Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg |
| 1941 | The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen |
| 1942 | Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech |
| 1943 | Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes |
| 1944 | The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti |
| 1945 | Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal |
| 1946 | The Age of Jackson by Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. |
| 1947 | Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter 3rd |
| 1948 | Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard Devoto |
| 1949 | The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols |
| 1950 | Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin |
| 1951 | The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley |
| 1952 | The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin |
| 1953 | The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield |
| 1954 | A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton |
| 1955 | Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan |
| 1956 | The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter |
| 1957 | Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-192O by George F. Kennan |
| 1958 | Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond |
| 1959 | The Republican Era: l869-1901 by Leonard D. White, with the assistance of Miss Jean Schneider |
| 1960 | In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech |
| 1961 | Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis |
| 1962 | The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson |
| 1963 | Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green |
| 1964 | Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell |
| 1965 | The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger |
| 1966 | The Life of the Mind in America by the late Perry Miller |
| 1967 | Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann |
| 1968 | The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn |
| 1969 | Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy |
| 1970 | Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson |
| 1971 | Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns |
| 1972 | Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler |
| 1973 | People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen |
| 1974 | The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin |
| 1975 | Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V by Dumas Malone |
| 1976 | Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan |
| 1977 | The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 by David M. Potter, a posthumous publication. Manuscript finished by Don E. Fehrenbacher |
| 1978 | The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. |
| 1979 | The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher |
| 1980 | Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack |
| 1981 | American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin |
| 1982 | Mary Chesnut's Civil War edited by C. Vann Woodward |
| 1983 | The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac |
| 1984 | No award given |
| 1985 | Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw |
| 1986 | ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall |
| 1987 | Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn |
| 1988 | The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce |
| 1989 | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch |
| 1990 | In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow |
| 1991 | A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| 1992 | The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr. |
| 1993 | The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood |
| 1994 | No award given |
| 1995 | No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| 1996 | William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor |
| 1997 | Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove |
| 1998 | Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson |
| 1999 | Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace |
| 2000 | Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy |
| 2001 | Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis |
| 2002 | The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand |
| 2003 | An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson |
| 2004 | A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn |
| 2005 | Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer |
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