Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Pulitzer Prize for History Public
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Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
“There is properly no history, only biography,” Emerson remarked, and in this ingenious book Thomas McCraw unfolds the history of …
Phil in SF says: 1985 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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...the Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall
Chronicles the political history of the space race, from its nineteenth-century beginnings with the rocketry pioneers to the Cold War …
Phil in SF says: 1986 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Voyagers to the West by Bernard Bailyn
The years just before the American Revolution—years in which immigration to the New World from Britain increased dramatically—are the focus …
Phil in SF says: 1987 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Launching of Modern American Science by Robert V. Bruce
Looks at the nineteenth century origins of American science, discusses the influence of the Civil War, and describes financial support, …
Phil in SF says: 1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become …
Phil in SF says: 1989 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch (America in the King Years, #1)
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American Civil Rights Movement, Parting the Waters is destined to …
Phil in SF says: 1989 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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In Our Image by Stanley Karnow
Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History, has now written an enthralling account of an almost forgotten subject: America's …
Phil in SF says: 1990 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household …
Phil in SF says: 1991 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Fate of Liberty by Mark E. Neely Jr.
If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of …
Phil in SF says: 1992 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
In a grand and immensely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more …
Phil in SF says: 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, Doris Kearns Goodwin writes a brilliant narrative account …
Phil in SF says: 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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William Cooper's Town by Alan Taylor
In this story of a frontier village in the early American Republic, Alan Taylor explores the lives of Judge William …
Phil in SF says: 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Original Meanings by Jack N. Rakove
What did the U.S. Constitution originally mean, and who has understood its meaning best? Do we look to the intentions …
Phil in SF says: 1997 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Summer for the Gods by Edward J. Larson
In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the unlikely setting for one of our century's …
Phil in SF says: 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Gotham by Mike Wallace, Edwin G. Burrows
In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have written an epic as vast and varied as the city it …
Phil in SF says: 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
