1999 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, …
1999 Pulitzer Prize – History Shortlist
In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival
Paula Mitchell Marks
