Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Pulitzer Prize for History Public
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Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn
We mainly know of the Mandan Indians—iconic plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for …
Phil in SF says: 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Custer's Trials by T. J. Stiles
From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically …
Phil in SF says: 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years …
Phil in SF says: 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Hailed as a "nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond’s best-seller 'Collapse,' and Simon Winchester’s 'Atlantic'" …
Phil in SF says: 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who …
Phil in SF says: 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel
The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati …
Phil in SF says: 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators …
Phil in SF says: 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous …
Phil in SF says: 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace
An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching implications for the definition of justice …
Phil in SF says: 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Freedom's Dominion by Jefferson Cowie
A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the …
Phil in SF says: 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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No Right to an Honest Living by Jacqueline Jones
From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston.
Impassioned antislavery rhetoric …
Phil in SF says: 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal
Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways …
Phil in SF says: 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Combee by Edda L. Fields-Black
The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written …
Phil in SF says: 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
