Editing Rick Atkinson (section)

==Awards and honors==
* 1982 [[Pulitzer Prize]], National Reporting<ref name="Contemporary2" />
* 1983 [[Livingston Award]] for Young Journalists<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wallacehouse.umich.edu/livingston-awards/winners/past-winners/ |title=Livingston Award for Young Journalists past winners |work=Wallace House |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 1989 [[George Polk Award]] for National Reporting<ref>{{cite web |url=http://liu.edu/George-Polk-Awards/Past-Winners#1989 |title=George Polk Awards past winners |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service, awarded to The Post for articles on shootings by the District of Columbia police department<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/washington-post-0 |title=The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Public Service |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 2003 Pulitzer Prize in History, ''An Army at Dawn''
* 2003 [[Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smh-hq.org/awards/books.html |title=2003 Distinguished Book Awards |publisher=[[Society for Military History]] |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 2009 [[Axel-Springer-Preis|Axel Springer Prize]] and fellowship, the American Academy, Berlin<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.americanacademy.de/fellows-distinguished-visitors/alumni/fellows/ |title=Past Fellows |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 2010 [[Pritzker Military Library Literature Award]] for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/pritzker-literature-award/rick-atkinson-2010-pritzker-literature-award-winner/ |title=Pritzker Literary Award |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 2014 [[Samuel Eliot Morison Prize]] for lifetime achievement, [[Society for Military History]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smh-hq.org/awards/morison.html |title=Samuel Eliot Morison Prize previous winners |publisher=Society for Military History |access-date=December 25, 2017}}</ref>
* 2015 [[Helmerich Award|Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://helmerichaward.org/winners.php |title=Award Winners |access-date=March 18, 2019}}</ref>
* 2020 [[George Washington Book Prize]] ''The British Are Coming,'' for the year's best work on the American founding era<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mountvernon.org/library/george-washington-prize/past-winners/2020/|title=The George Washington Book Prize 2020|website=George Washington's Mount Vernon}}</ref>
*2020 [[New-York Historical Society book prizes|New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Prize in American History]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyhistory.org/press/releases/rick-atkinson-be-awarded-new-york-historical-society%E2%80%99s-2020-barbara-and-david|title=New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Prize in American History}}</ref> ''The British Are Coming,'' for the year's best work in American history of biography