Editing Pulitzer Prize for History

{{Short description|American award for history books}}
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{{Pulitzer}}
The '''Pulitzer Prize for History''', administered by [[Columbia University]], is one of the seven American [[Pulitzer Prizes]] that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the [[history of the United States]]. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.<ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1917 "1917 Winners"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224024355/http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1917 |date=2015-12-24 }}. The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 2013-12-19.</ref> The Pulitzer Prize program has also recognized some historical work with its [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography|Biography prize]], from 1917, and its [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction|General Nonfiction prize]], from 1962.

Finalists have been announced since 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.<ref name=prize/>

==Winners==
In its first 97 years to 2013, the History Pulitzer was awarded 95 times. Two prizes were given in 1989; none in 1919, 1984, and 1994.<ref name=prize/>

=== 1910s''–''1970s ===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 1917–1979<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=History |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/220 |access-date=20 April 2015 |website=[[Pulitzer Prizes]] |publisher= |archive-date=6 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406045457/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/220 |url-status=live }}</ref>
!Year
!Author
!Title
!Ref.
|-
![[1917 in literature|1917]]
|{{sortname|last=Jusserand|first=Jean Jules}}
| ''[[With Americans of Past and Present Days]]''
|
|-
![[1918 in literature|1918]]
|{{sortname|last=Rhodes|first=James Ford}}
| {{Sort|History of the Civil War, 1861-1865|''[[A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865]]''}}
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999">{{cite book |author1=Elizabeth A. Brennan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA280 |title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners |author2=Elizabeth C. Clarage |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-57356-111-2 |pages=280– |accessdate=12 September 2020}}</ref>
|-
![[1919 in literature|1919]]
! colspan="2" |No award presented
!
|-
![[1920 in literature|1920]]
|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Justin H.|link=Justin Harvey Smith}}
| {{Sort|War with Mexico|''[[The War with Mexico]]''}}
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1921 in literature|1921]]
|{{sortname|last=Sowden Sims|first=William}} and [[Burton J. Hendrick]]
| {{Sort|Victory at Sea|''[[The Victory at Sea]]''}}
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1922 in literature|1922]]
|{{sortname|last=Truslow Adams|first=James}}
| {{Sort|Founding of New England|''[[The Founding of New England]]''}}
|<ref name="FischerFischer2011">{{cite book |author1=Heinz-D Fischer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w3CdrctE80IC&pg=PA304 |title=Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000: Decision-Making Processes in all Award Categories based on unpublished Sources |author2=Erika J. Fischer |date=9 May 2011 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-093912-5 |pages=304– |accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref>
|-
![[1923 in literature|1923]]
|{{Sortname|link=Charles Warren (U.S. author)|first=Charles|last=Warren}}
| {{Sort|Supreme Court in United States History|''The Supreme Court in United States History''}}
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1924 in literature|1924]]
|{{sortname|last=McIlwain|first=Charles Howard}}
| {{Sort|American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation|''[[The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation]]''}}
|
|-
![[1925 in literature|1925]]
|{{sortname|last=Paxson|first=Frederic L.}}
| ''[[History of the American Frontier]]''
|
|-
![[1926 in literature|1926]]
|{{Sortname|Edward|Channing}}
| {{Sort|History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849–1865)|''A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849–1865)''}}
|
|-
![[1927 in literature|1927]]
|{{sortname|last=Flagg Bemis|first=Samuel}}
| ''Pinckney's Treaty''
|
|-
![[1928 in literature|1928]]
|{{sortname|last=Parrington|first=Vernon Louis}}
| ''[[Main Currents in American Thought]]''
|
|-
![[1929 in literature|1929]]
|{{sortname|last=Shannon|first=Fred Albert}}
| {{Sort|Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865|''[[The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865]]''}}
|<ref>{{cite book |last=Fischer |first=Heinz Dietrich |url=https://archive.org/details/americanhistorya0000unse_q0g1/page/53 |title=American History Awards, 1917-1991: From Colonial Settlements to the Civil Rights Movement |author2=Erika J. Fischer |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |year=1994 |isbn=3-598-30177-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/americanhistorya0000unse_q0g1/page/53 53]}}</ref>
|-
![[1930 in literature|1930]]
|{{sortname|last=Van Tyne|first=Claude H.}}
| {{Sort|War of Independence|''[[The War of Independence]]''}}
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1931 in literature|1931]]
|{{sortname|last=Schmitt|first=Bernadotte E.}}
| {{Sort|Coming of the War, 1914|''The Coming of the War, 1914''}}
|
|-
![[1932 in literature|1932]]
|{{sortname|last=Pershing|first=John J.}}
| ''[[My Experiences in the World War]]''
|
|-
![[1933 in literature|1933]]
|{{sortname|last=Turner|first=Frederick J.}}
| {{Sort|Significance of Sections in American History|''The Significance of Sections in American History''}}
|
|-
![[1934 in literature|1934]]
|{{Sortname|Herbert|Agar}}
| {{Sort|People's Choice|''The People's Choice''}}
|
|-
![[1935 in literature|1935]]
|{{sortname|last=McLean Andrews|first=Charles}}
| {{Sort|Colonial Period of American History|''The Colonial Period of American History''}}
|
|-
![[1936 in literature|1936]]
|{{sortname|last=McLaughlin|first=Andrew C.}}
| {{Sort|Constitutional History of the United States|''A Constitutional History of the United States''}}
|<ref name="FischerFischer2004">{{cite book |author1=Heinz Dietrich Fischer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okvYMZnx4ykC&pg=PA254 |title=Complete Bibliographical Manual of Books about the Pulitzer Prizes, 1935-2003: Monographs and Anthologies on the Coveted Awards |author2=Erika J. Fischer |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |year=2004 |isbn=978-3-598-30188-9 |pages=254– |accessdate=13 December 2020}}</ref>
|-
![[1937 in literature|1937]]
|{{sortname|last=Brooks|first=Van Wyck}}
| {{Sort|Flowering of New England, 1815–1865|''The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865''}}
|
|-
![[1938 in literature|1938]]
|{{sortname|last=Buck|first=Paul Herman}}
| {{Sort|Road to Reunion, 1865–1900|''[[The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900]]''}}
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1939 in literature|1939]]
|{{sortname|last=Mott|first=Frank Luther}}
| {{Sort|History of American Magazines|''[[A History of American Magazines]]''}}
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1940 in literature|1940]]
|{{Sortname|Carl|Sandburg}}
| ''[[Abraham Lincoln: The War Years]]''
|
|-
![[1941 in literature|1941]]
|{{sortname|last=Hansen|first=Marcus Lee}}
| {{Sort|Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860|''[[The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860]]''}}
|
|-
![[1942 in literature|1942]]
|{{Sortname|Margaret|Leech}}
| ''[[Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865]]''
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1943 in literature|1943]]
|{{Sortname|Esther|Forbes}}
| ''[[Paul Revere and the World He Lived In]]''
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1944 in literature|1944]]
|{{Sortname|Merle|Curti}}
| {{Sort|Growth of American Thought|''The Growth of American Thought''}}
|
|-
![[1945 in literature|1945]]
|{{Sortname|Stephen|Bonsal}}
| ''Unfinished Business''
|
|-
![[1946 in literature|1946]]
|{{sortname|last=Schlesinger, Jr.|first=Arthur M.}}
| {{Sort|Age of Jackson|''The Age of Jackson''}}
|
|-
![[1947 in literature|1947]]
|{{sortname|last=Baxter III|first=James Phinney}}
| ''[[Scientists Against Time]]''
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1948 in literature|1948]]
|{{Sort|DeVoto, Bernard|[[Bernard DeVoto]]}}
| ''[[Across the Wide Missouri (book)|Across the Wide Missouri]]''
|
|-
![[1949 in literature|1949]]
|{{sortname|last=Nichols|first=Roy Franklin}}
| {{Sort|Disruption of American Democracy|''The Disruption of American Democracy''}}
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1950 in literature|1950]]
|{{sortname|last=Larkin|first=Oliver W.}}
| ''Art and Life in America''
|
|-
![[1951 in literature|1951]]
|{{sortname|last=Buley|first=R. Carlyle}}
| ''The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840''
|
|-
![[1952 in literature|1952]]
|{{Sortname|Oscar|Handlin}}
| ''The Uprooted''
|
|-
![[1953 in literature|1953]]
|{{Sortname|George|Dangerfield}}
| ''The Era of Good Feelings''
|
|-
![[1954 in literature|1954]]
|{{Sortname|Bruce|Catton}}
| ''[[A Stillness at Appomattox]]''
|
|-
![[1955 in literature|1955]]
|{{Sortname|Paul|Horgan}}
| ''Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History''
|
|-
![[1956 in literature|1956]]
|{{Sortname|Richard|Hofstadter}}
| ''The Age of Reform''
|
|-
![[1957 in literature|1957]]
|{{sortname|last=Kennan|first=George F.}}
| ''Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920''
|
|-
![[1958 in literature|1958]]
|{{Sortname|Bray|Hammond}}
| ''Banks and Politics in America''
|
|-
![[1959 in literature|1959]]
|{{sortname|last=White|first=Leonard D.}} and [[Jean Schneider]]
| ''The Republican Era: 1869–1901''
|
|-
![[1960 in literature|1960]]
|{{Sortname|Margaret|Leech}}
| ''[[In the Days of McKinley]]''
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1961 in literature|1961]]
|{{Sortname|Herbert|Feis}}
| ''[[Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference]]''
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1962 in literature|1962]]
|{{sortname|last=Gipson|first=Lawrence H.}}
| {{Sort|Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766|''The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766''}}
|
|-
![[1963 in literature|1963]]
|{{sortname|last=McLaughlin Green|first=Constance}}
| ''[[Washington: Village and Capital, 1800–1878]]''
|
|-
![[1964 in literature|1964]]
|{{sortname|last=Powell|first=Sumner Chilton}}
| ''[[Puritan Village|Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town]]''
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1965 in literature|1965]]
|{{Sortname|Irwin|Unger}}
| {{Sort|Greenback Era|''[[The Greenback Era|The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865–1879]]''}}
|
|-
![[1966 in literature|1966]]
|{{Sortname|Perry|Miller}}
| {{Sort|Life of the Mind in America|''[[The Life of the Mind in America]]''}}
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1967 in literature|1967]]
|{{sortname|last=Goetzmann|first=William H.}}
| ''[[Exploration and Empire|Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West]]''
|<ref name="BrennanClarage1999" />
|-
![[1968 in literature|1968]]
|{{Sortname|Bernard|Bailyn}}
| {{Sort|Ideological Origins of the American Revolution|''[[The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution]]''}}
|
|-
![[1969 in literature|1969]]
|{{sortname|last=Levy|first=Leonard W.}}
| ''[[Origins of the Fifth Amendment|Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination]]''
|
|-
![[1970 in literature|1970]]
|{{Sortname|Dean|Acheson}}
| ''[[Present at the Creation|Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department]]''
|
|-
![[1971 in literature|1971]]
|{{sortname|last=MacGregor Burns|first=James}}
|''[[Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom]]''
|
|-
![[1972 in literature|1972]]
|{{sortname|last=Degler|first=Carl N.}}
| ''[[Neither Black nor White|Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States]]''
|
|-
![[1973 in literature|1973]]
|{{Sortname|Michael|Kammen}}
| ''[[People of Paradox|People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization]]''
|<ref>{{cite web |date=January 1, 2008 |title=Kammen, Michael G. 1936- (Michael Gedaliah Kammen) |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3070000080.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902134009/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3070000080.html |archive-date=September 2, 2017 |access-date=December 9, 2012 |work=Contemporary Authors }}</ref>
|-
![[1974 in literature|1974]]
|{{sortname|last=Boorstin|first=Daniel J.}}
| {{Sort|Americans: The Democratic Experience|''[[The Americans: The Democratic Experience]]''}}
|<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Boorstin, Daniel J. |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Judaica  |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2587503326.html |date=January 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114005812/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2587503326.html |archive-date=November 14, 2018 |url-status=dead |accessdate=December 9, 2012}}</ref>
|-
![[1975 in literature|1975]]
|{{Sortname|Dumas|Malone}}
| ''[[Jefferson and His Time]]''
|
|-
![[1976 in literature|1976]]
|{{Sortname|Paul|Horgan}}
| ''[[Lamy of Santa Fe]]''
|<ref>{{cite web |date=March 9, 1995 |title=Deaths |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-824446.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416055754/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-824446.html |archive-date=April 16, 2016 |accessdate=December 9, 2012 |work=The Washington Post }}</ref>
|-
![[1977 in literature|1977]]
|{{sortname|last=Potter |first=David M.}} (Completed and edited by [[Don E. Fehrenbacher]])
| {{Sort|Impending Crisis, 1848–1861|''[[The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861]]''}}
|
|-
![[1978 in literature|1978]]
|{{sortname|last=Chandler, Jr.|first=Alfred D.}}
| {{Sort|Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business|''[[The Visible Hand|The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business]]''}}
|<ref>{{cite web |date=May 14, 2007 |title=Noted Economic Historian Alfred Chandler Jr., 88 |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5981455.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311202100/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5981455.html |archive-date=March 11, 2016 |access-date=December 9, 2012 |work=The Washington Post }}</ref>
|-
![[1979 in literature|1979]]
|{{sortname|last=Fehrenbacher|first=Don E.}}
| {{Sort|Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics|''[[The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics]]''}}
|
|}

===1980s===
Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 1980-1989<ref name=":1" />
!Year
!Author
!Title
!Result

!Ref.
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1980 in literature|1980]]
|{{sortname|last=Litwack|first=Leon F.}}
|''[[Been in the Storm So Long|Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery]]''
|Winner

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Nash|first=Gary B.}}
|{{Sort|Urban Crucible|''The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution''}}
|Finalist

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Unruh|first=John B.}}
|{{Sort|Plains Across|''[[The Plains Across|The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–60]] ''}}
|Finalist

|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1981 in literature|1981]]
|{{sortname|last=Cremin|first=Lawrence A.}}
|''[[American Education|American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876]]''
|Winner

|<ref>{{cite web |date=September 5, 1990 |title=L.A. Cremin, Historian on Education, Dies |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1145999.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120060650/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1145999.html |archive-date=November 20, 2018 |work=The Washington Post}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Kennedy|first=David M.|link=David M. Kennedy (historian)}}
|''Over Here: The First World War and American Society''
|Finalist

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Koehler|first=Lyle}}
|{{Sort|Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England|''A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England''}}
|Finalist

|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1982 in literature|1982]]
|{{sortname|last=Woodward|first=C. Vann}}
|''[[Mary Chesnut's Civil War]]''
|Winner

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Fredrickson|first=George M.}}
|''White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History''
|Finalist

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Iriye|first=Akira}}
|''Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945''
|Finalist

|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1983 in literature|1983]]
|{{sortname|last=Isaac|first=Rhys L.}}
|{{Sort|Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790|''[[The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790]]''}}
|Winner

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Middlekauff|first=Robert}}
|{{Sort|Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789|''[[The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789]]''}}
|Finalist

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wyatt-Brown|first=Bertram}}
|''Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South''
|Finalist

|
|-
![[1984 in literature|1984]]
! colspan="3" |No Award presented
!
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1985 in literature|1985]]
|{{sortname|last=McCraw|first=Thomas K.}}
|''[[Prophets of Regulation|Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn]]''
|Winner

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Prucha|first=Francis Paul}}
|{{Sort|Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians|''The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians''}}
|Finalist

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Williamson|first=Joel}}
|{{Sort|Crucible of Race|''The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation''}}
|Finalist

|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |[[1986 in literature|1986]]
|{{sortname|last=McDougall|first=Walter A.}}
|''[[...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age]]''
|Winner

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Jacqueline}}
|''Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present''
|Finalist

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=McDonald|first=Forrest}}
|''Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution''
|Finalist

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Miller|first=Kerby A.}}
|''Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America''
|Finalist

|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1987 in literature|1987]]
|{{sortname|last=Bailyn|first=Bernard}}
|''[[Voyagers to the West|Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution]]''
|Winner

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Eisenhower|first=David}}
|''Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945''
|Finalist

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Garrow|first=David}}
|''[[Bearing the Cross|Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference]]''
|Finalist

|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1988 in literature|1988]]
|{{sortname|last=Bruce|first=Robert V.}}
|{{Sort|Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876|''[[The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876]]''}}
|Winner

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Montgomery|first=David|link=David Montgomery (historian)}}
|{{Sort|Fall of the House of Labor|''[[The Fall of the House of Labor|The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925]]''}}
|Finalist

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Rosenberg|first=Charles E.}}
|{{Sort|Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System|''The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System''}}
|Finalist

|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |[[1989 in literature|1989]]
|{{sortname|last=Branch|first=Taylor}}
|''[[Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963]]''
|Winner

|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|{{sortname|last=McPherson|first=James M.}}
|''[[Battle Cry of Freedom (book)|Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era]]''
|Winner

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Foner|first=Eric}}
|''[[Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution – 1863–1877]]''
|Finalist

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Sheehan|first=Neil}}
|{{Sort|Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam|''[[A Bright Shining Lie|A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam]]''}}
|Finalist
|
|}
===1990s===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 1990-1999<ref name=":1" />
!Year
!Author
!Title
!Result
!Ref.
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1990 in literature|1990]]
|{{sortname|last=Karnow|first=Stanley}}
| ''[[In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines]]''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Honour|first=Hugh}}
|{{Sort|Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I|''The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Hughes|first=Thomas P.}}
|''American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870–1970''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |[[1991 in literature|1991]]
|{{sortname|last=Ulrich|first=Laurel Thatcher}}
| {{Sort|Midwife's Tale|''A Midwife's Tale''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Cohen|first=Lizabeth}}
|''Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Graham|first=Hugh Davis}}
|{{Sort|Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy|''The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Stampp|first=Kenneth M.}}
|''America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="5" |[[1992 in literature|1992]]
|{{sortname|last=Neely, Jr.|first=Mark E.}}
| {{Sort|Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties|''[[The Fate of Liberty|The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties]]''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Cronon|first=William}}
|''Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Draper|first=Theodore}}
|{{Sort|Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs|''A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Martin|first=John Frederick}}
|''Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=White|first=Richard|link=Richard White (historian)}}
|{{Sort|Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815|''The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1993 in literature|1993]]
|{{sortname|last=Wood|first=Gordon S.}}
| {{Sort|Radicalism of the American Revolution|''[[The Radicalism of the American Revolution]]''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Ayers|first=Edward L.}}
|{{Sort|Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction|''The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wills|first=Garry}}
|''[[Lincoln at Gettysburg|Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America]]''
|Finalist
|
|-
! rowspan="4" |[[1994 in literature|1994]]
! colspan="3" |''No award given''
!
|-
|{{sortname|last=Friedman|first=Lawrence M.}}
|''Crime and Punishment in American History''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Posner|first=Gerald}}
|''Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Williamson|first=Joel}}
|''William Faulkner and Southern History''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1995 in literature|1995]]
|{{sortname|last=Goodwin|first=Doris Kearns}}
| ''[[No Ordinary Time|No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II]]''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Goodman|first=James|nolink=1}}
|''Stories of Scottsboro''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Peterson|first=Merrill D.}}
|''Lincoln in American Memory''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1996 in literature|1996]]
|{{sortname|last=Taylor|first=Alan|link=Alan Taylor (historian)}}
| ''[[William Cooper's Town|William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic]]''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Banning|first=Lance}}
|{{Sort|Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic|''The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Rhodes|first=Richard}}
|''Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1997 in literature|1997]]
|{{sortname|last=Rakove|first=Jack N.}}
| ''[[Original Meanings|Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution]]''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Nissenbaum|first=Stephen}}
|{{Sort|Battle for Christmas|''The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Norton|first=Mary Beth}}
|''Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1998 in literature|1998]]
|{{sortname|last=Larson|first=Edward J.}}
| ''[[Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion|Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=1998-04-20 |title=PW: Roth, Kakutani Awarded Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/19980420/22143-pw-roth-kakutani-awarded-pulitzers.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Lukas|first=J. Anthony}}
|''[[Big Trouble (Lukas book)|Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America]]''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Rogers}}
|''Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1999 in literature|1999]]
|{{sortname|last=Burrows|first=Edwin G.}} and [[Mike Wallace (historian)|Mike Wallace]]
| ''[[Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zeitchik |first=Steven M. |date=1999-04-19 |title=FSG Leads Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/19990419/20221-fsg-leads-pulitzer-winners.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127120746/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/19990419/20221-fsg-leads-pulitzer-winners.html |archive-date=January 27, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Burrows|first=William E.}}
|''This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Marks|first=Paula Mitchell}}
|''In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival''
|Finalist
|
|}

===2000s===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 2000-2009<ref name=":1" />
!Year
!Author
!Title
!Result
!Ref.
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2000 in literature|2000]]
|{{sortname|last=Kennedy|first=David M.|link=David M. Kennedy (historian)}}
| ''[[Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War]]''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Merrell|first=James H.}}
|''Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Phillips|first=Kevin|link=Kevin Phillips (political commentator)}}
|{{Sort|Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America|''The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2001 in literature|2001]]
|{{sortname|last=Ellis|first=Joseph J.}}
| ''[[Founding Brothers|Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2001-04-23 |title=Chabon, Ellis Win Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20010423/19025-chabon-ellis-win-pulitzers.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=FitzGerald|first=Frances|link=Frances FitzGerald (journalist)}}
|''[[Way Out There in the Blue|Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War]]''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Keyssar|first=Alexander}}
|{{Sort|Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States|''The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2002 in literature|2002]]
|{{sortname|last=Menand|first=Louis}}
| {{Sort|Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America|''[[The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America]]''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Harris|first=J. William}}
|''Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Richter|first=Daniel K.}}
|''Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2003 in literature|2003]]
|{{sortname|last=Atkinson|first=Rick}}
| {{Sort|Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943|''[[An Army at Dawn|An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943]]''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Dray|first=Philip}}
|''At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Lefkowitz Horowitz|first=Helen}}
|''Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2004 in literature|2004]]
|{{sortname|last=Hahn|first=Steven}}
| {{Sort|Nation Under Our Feet|''[[A Nation Under Our Feet|A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration]]''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Maraniss|first=David}}
|''[[They Marched into Sunlight|They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967]]''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Okrent|first=Daniel}}
|''[[Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center]]''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2005 in literature|2005]]
|{{sortname|last=Hackett Fischer|first=David}}
| ''[[Washington's Crossing (book)|Washington's Crossing]]''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Boyle|first=Kevin|link=Kevin Boyle (historian)}}
|''[[Arc of Justice|Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age]]''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=O'Brien|first=Michael|link=Michael O'Brien (historian)}}
|''Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2006 in literature|2006]]
|{{sortname|last=Oshinsky|first=David}}
| ''[[Polio: An American Story]]''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Lepore|first=Jill}}
|''[[New York Burning|New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan]]''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wilentz|first=Sean}}
|{{Sort|Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln|''The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2007 in literature|2007]]
|{{sortname|last=Roberts|first=Gene|link=Gene Roberts (journalist)}} and [[Hank Klibanoff]]
| {{Sort|Race Beat|''[[The Race Beat|The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation]]''}}
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Campbell|first=James T.}}
|''Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Philbrick|first=Nathaniel}}
|''[[Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War]]''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2008 in literature|2008]]
|{{sortname|last=Howe|first=Daniel Walker}}
| ''[[What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848]]''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Dallek|first=Robert}}
|''Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Halberstam|first=David}}
|{{Sort|Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War|''[[The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War]]''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2009 in literature|2009]]
|{{sortname|last=Gordon-Reed|first=Annette}}
| {{Sort|Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family|''[[The Hemingses of Monticello|The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family]]''}}
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-21 |title=Awards: The Pulitzers; Orange Prize Shortlist |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=905 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002000124/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=905 |archive-date=October 2, 2017 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-20 |title=The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters and Drama |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/15142-the-2009-pulitzer-prizes-for-letters-and-drama.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Faust|first=Drew Gilpin}}
|''This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Mackenzie|first=G. Calvin}} and [[Robert Weisbrot]]
|{{Sort|Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s|''The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s''}}
|Finalist
|
|}
===2010s===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 2010-2019<ref name=":1" />
!Year
!Author
!Title
!Result
!Ref.
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2010 in literature|2010]]
|{{sortname|last=Ahamed|first=Liaquat}}
| ''[[Lords of Finance|Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-04-13 |title=Awards: The Pulitzers |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1160 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820022347/http://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1160 |archive-date=August 20, 2016 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Grandin|first=Greg}}
|''Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Wood|first=Gordon S.}}
|''[[Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815]]''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2011 in literature|2011]]
|{{sortname|last=Foner|first=Eric}}
| {{Sort|Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery|''[[The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery]]''}}
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-04-19 |title=Awards: Pulitzer, Lukas Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1443 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206034500/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1443 |archive-date=February 6, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=McCurry|first=Stephanie}}
|''Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South''
|Finalist
|<ref>{{cite news |date=April 18, 2011 |title=2011 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/business/media/19PULITZERLIST-ARTS.html?_r=0 |access-date=September 3, 2014 |archive-date=September 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904062848/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/business/media/19PULITZERLIST-ARTS.html?_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Rawson|first=Michael J.}}
|''Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston''
|Finalist
|<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Vary |first=Adam B. |date=April 18, 2011 |title=Pulitzer Prizes announced for 2011 |url=http://ew.com/article/2011/04/18/pulitzer-prize-2011-winners-literature/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=June 1, 2018}}</ref>
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |[[2012 in literature|2012]]
|{{sortname|last=Marable|first=Manning}}
| ''[[Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-04-17 |title=Awards: Pulitzer Winners; Orange Prize Shortlist |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1718 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028053548/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1718 |archive-date=October 28, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Habash |first=Gabe |date=2012-04-16 |title=2012 Pulitzer Prize: No Fiction Award, Jurors 'Shocked' |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/51542-2012-pulitzer-prize-no-fiction-award-jurors-shocked.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119150319/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/51542-2012-pulitzer-prize-no-fiction-award-jurors-shocked.html |archive-date=January 19, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Hyde|first=Anne F.}}
|''Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Summers|first=Anthony}} and [[Robbyn Swan]]
|{{Sort|Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden|''The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=White|first=Richard|link=Richard White (historian)}}
|''Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2013 in literature|2013]]
|{{sortname|last=Logevall|first=Fredrik}}
| ''[[Embers of War|Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Habash |first=Gabe |date=2013-04-15 |title=2013 Pulitzer Prize: 'Orphan Master' Brings Fiction Prize Back |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/56832-2013-pulitzer-prize-orphan-master-brings-fiction-prize-back.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126191934/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/56832-2013-pulitzer-prize-orphan-master-brings-fiction-prize-back.html |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Bailyn|first=Bernard}}
|{{Sort|Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675|''The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Witt|first=John Fabian}}
|''Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2014 in literature|2014]]
|{{sortname|last=Taylor|first=Alan|link=Alan Taylor (historian)}}
| {{Sort|Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832|''[[The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832]]''}}
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-04-15 |title=Awards: Pulitzer Winners; Thwaites Wainwright Nature & Travel Writing |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2229 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310022608/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2229 |archive-date=March 10, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-04-14 |title=Tartt, Fagin Take 2014 Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/61855-tartt-fagin-take-2014-pulitzers.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110152417/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/61855-tartt-fagin-take-2014-pulitzers.html |archive-date=November 10, 2014 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Jacqueline}}
|{{Sort|Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America|''A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Schlosser|first=Eric}}
|''Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2015 in literature|2015]]
|{{sortname|last=Fenn|first=Elizabeth A.}}
| ''[[Encounters at the Heart of the World|Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-04-21 |title=Doerr, Kolbert Among 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2490 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128034004/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2490 |archive-date=January 28, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] }}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Beckert|first=Sven}}
|''Empire of Cotton: A Global History''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Bunker|first=Nick}}
|{{Sort|Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America|''An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America''}}
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |[[2016 in literature|2016]]
|{{sortname|last=Stiles|first=T. J.}}
| ''[[Custer's Trials|Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-04-19 |title=Debut Novel Among 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2735 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302135954/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2735 |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Jacobsen|first=Annie}}
|{{Sort|Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency|''The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency''}}
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Jordan|first=Brian Matthew}}
|''Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Scott|first=James M.|nolink=1}}
|''Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2017 in literature|2017]]
|{{sortname|last=Thompson|first=Heather Ann}}
| ''[[Blood in the Water (Thompson book)|Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-11 |title=The Underground Railroad Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2977 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119025053/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2977 |archive-date=January 19, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=John |date=2017-04-10 |title=Whitehead, Thompson Among 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/73303-pulitzer-prizes-2017.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808033829/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/73303-pulitzer-prizes-2017.html |archive-date=August 8, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Ferreiro|first=Larrie D.}}
|''Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It''
|Finalist
|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Warren|first=Wendy}}
|''New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America''
|Finalist
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2018 in literature|2018]]
|{{sortname|last=Davis|first=Jack E.}}
| {{Sort|Gulf: The Making of an American Sea|''The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea''}}
|Winner
|<ref name=":3">{{cite web |title=2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |access-date=2018-04-16 |archive-date=2019-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911080447/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":4">{{cite web |title=2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911080447/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2018 |archive-date=September 11, 2019 |access-date=April 16, 2019 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]]}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Phillips-Fein|first=Kim}}
|''Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":3" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Ross|first=Steven J.|dab=historian}}
|''Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":3" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2019 in literature|2019]]
|{{sortname|last=Blight|first=David W.}}
| ''[[Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom]]''
|Winner
|<ref name=":5">{{cite web |title=2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726100152/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019 |archive-date=July 26, 2019 |access-date=April 16, 2019 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-04-16 |title=Richard Powers, David W. Blight Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3474 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126034939/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3474 |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Fitzhugh Brundage|first=W.}}
|''Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":5" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Johnson|first=Victoria}}
|''American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":5" />
|}

===2020s===
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 2020-2024<ref name=":1" />
!Year
!Author
!Title
!Result
!Ref.
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2020 in literature|2020]]
|{{sortname|last=McDaniel|first=W. Caleb}}
| ''[[Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America]]''
|Winner
|<ref name=":02">{{cite web |title=2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730234718/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2020 |archive-date=July 30, 2020 |access-date=May 5, 2020 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-05 |title=The Nickel Boys Among Pulitzer Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3732 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130215553/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3732 |archive-date=January 30, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=John |date=2020-05-04 |title=Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/83233-pulitzer-prizes-2020.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130123841/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/83233-pulitzer-prizes-2020.html |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Grandin|first=Greg}}
|{{Sort|End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America|''[[The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America]]''}}
|Finalist
|<ref name=":02" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Taylor|first=Keeanga-Yamahtta}}
|''Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":02" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2021 in literature|2021]]
|{{sortname|last=Chatelain|first=Marcia}}
| ''[[Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America]]''
|Winner
|<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2021-06-11 |title=Pulitzer Prize: 2021 Winners List |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/business/pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2023-05-11 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2021-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614171313/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/business/pulitzer-prize-winners.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":12">{{cite web |title=2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711134532/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2021 |archive-date=July 11, 2022 |access-date=June 11, 2021 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-14 |title=2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123024752/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4006 |archive-date=January 23, 2023 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Cervini|first=Eric}}
|{{Sort|Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America|''The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America''}}
|Finalist
|<ref name=":12" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Nelson|first=Megan Kate}}
|{{Sort|Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West|''The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West''}}
|Finalist
|<ref name=":12" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2022 in literature|2022]]
|{{sortname|last=Eustace|first=Nicole}}
| ''Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America''
|Winner
|<ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802013936/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2022 |archive-date=August 2, 2022 |access-date=May 12, 2022 |website=[[Pulitzer Prize]]}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=John |date=2022-05-09 |title='The Netanyahus,' 'frank: sonnets' Among 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/89252-the-netanyahus-frank-sonnets-among-2022-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129181727/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/89252-the-netanyahus-frank-sonnets-among-2022-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |date=2022-05-10 |title=2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4229 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705011242/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4229 |archive-date=July 5, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|{{sortname|last=Ferrer|first=Ada}}
| ''[[Cuba: An American History]]''
|Winner
|<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />
|-
|{{sortname|last=Masur|first=Kate}}
|''Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction''
|Finalist
|<ref name=":2" />
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2023 in literature|2023]]
|{{sortname|last=Cowie|first=Jefferson}}
| ''[[Freedom's Dominion|Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power]]''
|Winner
|'''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Sophia |date=2023-05-08 |title='Demon Copperhead,' 'Trust,' 'His Name Is George Floyd' Among 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/92233-demon-copperhead-trust-his-name-is-george-floyd-among-2023-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-09 |title=2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners Include Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead, Diaz's Trust |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4476 |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>'''
|-
|{{sortname|last=Graff|first=Garrett M.}}
|''Watergate: A New History''
|Finalist
|'''<ref name=":0" />'''
|-
|[[Michael John Witgen]]
|''Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America''
|Finalist
|'''<ref name=":0" />'''
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2024 in literature|2024]]
|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Jacqueline}}
| ''No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era''
|Winner
|'''<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=op de Beeck |first=Nathalie|date=2024-05-06 |title='Night Watch,' 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,' 'King' Among 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners
 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/94978-night-watch-a-day-in-the-life-of-abed-salama-king-among-2024-pulitzer-prize-winners.html |access-date=2024-05-08 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-07 |title=2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners
|url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4721#m63738 |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>'''
|-
|{{sortname|last=West|first=Elliott}}
|''Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion''
|Finalist
|'''<ref name=":8" />'''
|-
|{{sortname|last=Willrich|first=Michael}}
|''[[American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century]]''
|Finalist
|'''<ref name=":8" />'''
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[2025 in literature|2025]]
|{{sortname|Kathleen|DuVal}}
|''Native Nations: A Millennium in North America''
|Winner
|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|{{sortname|Edda L.|Fields-Black}}
| ''Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War''
|Winner
|
|-
|{{sortname|Seth|Rockman}}
|''Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery''
|Finalist
|
|}

==Repeat winners==

Five people have won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice.
* [[Margaret Leech]], 1942 for ''Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865'' and 1960 for ''In the Days of McKinley''
* [[Bernard Bailyn]], 1968 for ''The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution'' and 1987 for ''Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution''
* [[Paul Horgan]], 1955 for ''Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History'' and 1976 for ''Lamy of Santa Fe''
* [[Alan Taylor (historian)|Alan Taylor]], 1996 for ''William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic'' and 2014 for ''The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832''<ref>{{cite web |author=Husna Haq |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2014/0414/Donna-Tartt-s-The-Goldfinch-a-novel-that-has-charmed-critics-and-readers-alike-wins-the-2014-Pulitzer-Prize |title=Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch' – a novel that has charmed critics and readers alike – wins the 2014 Pulitzer Prize |publisher=CSMonitor.com |date=2014-04-14 |access-date=2014-04-22 |archive-date=2014-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421174835/http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2014/0414/Donna-Tartt-s-The-Goldfinch-a-novel-that-has-charmed-critics-and-readers-alike-wins-the-2014-Pulitzer-Prize |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Don E. Fehrenbacher]] completed ''The Impending Crisis'' by David Potter, for which Potter posthumously won the 1977 prize, and won the 1979 prize himself for ''The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics''.

==See also==
* [[List of history awards]]

==References==
{{Reflist |refs=
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>[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/History "History"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160103054933/http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/History |date=2016-01-03 }}. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-12-19.</ref>

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