1991 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

A Midwife’s Tale

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier. Between 1785 and …

America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink

Kenneth M. Stampp

Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939

Lizabeth Cohen

The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy

Hugh David Graham