Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Pulitzer Prize for History Public
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Freedom From Fear by David M. Kennedy
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II.Freedom …
Phil in SF says: 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander …
Phil in SF says: 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand
he Civil War made America a modern nation, unleashing forces of industrialism and expansion that had been kept in check …
Phil in SF says: 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson (The Liberation Trilogy, #1)
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of …
Phil in SF says: 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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A Nation under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an …
Phil in SF says: 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed …
Phil in SF says: 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine …
Phil in SF says: 2006 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Race Beat by Hank Klibanoff, Gene Roberts
his is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity …
Phil in SF says: 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series …
Phil in SF says: 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
In the mid-1700s the English captain of a trading ship that made runs between England and the Virginia colony fathered …
Phil in SF says: 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits …
Phil in SF says: 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's—and the nation's—transformation through the crucible of slavery and emancipation.
In this landmark …
Phil in SF says: 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Of the great figures in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting …
Phil in SF says: 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall
The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of …
Phil in SF says: 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor
This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the …
Phil in SF says: 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
