2005 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

Washington’s Crossing

David Hackett Fischer

Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer rec…

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Kevin Boyle

Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2

Michael O’Brien