Pulitzer Prize – History

2007 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Race BeatGene Roberts and Hank KlibanoffAn unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s. Roberts and Klib...Amazon2007 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistMayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and WarNathaniel PhilbrickAmazonMiddle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005James T. CampbellAmazon

2008 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerWhat Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848Daniel Walker HoweThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistNixon and Kissinger: Partners in PowerRobert DallekAmazonThe Coldest Winter: America and the Korean WarDavid HalberstamAmazon

2009 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American FamilyAnnette Gordon-ReedWinner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: "[A] commanding and important book." —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker This epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicl...Amazon2009 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistThe Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960sG. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert WeisbrotAmazonThis Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil WarDrew Gilpin FaustAmazon

2011 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American SlaveryEric Foner“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's cr...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistConfederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War SouthStephanie McCurryAmazonEden on the Charles: The Making of BostonMichael J. RawsonAmazon

2012 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning MarableGroundbreaking . . . It will be difficult for anyone to better this book . . . a work of art, a feast that combines genres skilfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop' Wil Haygood, Washington Post 'He was a...Amazon2012 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistEmpires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860Anne F. HydeAmazonRailroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern AmericaRichard WhiteAmazonThe Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin LadenAnthony Summers and Robbyn SwanAmazon

2013 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerEmbers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s VietnamFredrik LogevallA history of the four decades leading up to the Vietnam War offers insights into how the U.S. became involved, identifying commonalities between the campaigns of French and American forces while discussing relevant political factors....Amazon2013 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistLincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American HistoryJohn Fabian WittAmazonThe Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North AmericaAmazon

2014 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832Alan TaylorDrawn from new sources, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a gripping narrative that recreates the events that inspired hundreds of slaves to pressure British admirals into becoming liberators by using their intimate knowledge of the countryside t...Amazon2014 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistA Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's AmericaJacqueline JonesAmazonCommand and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of SafetyEric SchlosserAmazon

2015 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerEncounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan PeopleElizabeth A. FennDraws on important new discoveries in a range of disciplines to chronicle the history of the Mandan Native Americans while sharing revisionist perspectives about their thriving commercial and agricultural practices before European diseases decimated their ...Amazon2015 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistAn Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight AmericaNick BunkerAmazonEmpire of Cotton: A Global HistorySven BeckertAmazon

2016 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerCuster's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New AmericaT. J. Stiles"In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a capable yet insecure man, i...Amazon2016 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistMarching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil WarBrian Matthew JordanAmazonTarget Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl HarborJames M. ScottAmazonThe Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research AgencyAnnie JacobsenAmazon