Pulitzer Prize – History

1977 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Impending Crisis, 1848–1861David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive i...Amazon

1978 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American BusinessAlfred D. Chandler, Jr.The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, s...Amazon

1979 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and PoliticsDon E. FehrenbacherExamines the legal bases of slavery and the long-term effects of the case on the American political, legal and judicial systems...Amazon

1980 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerBeen in the Storm So LongLeon F. LitwackWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) ...Amazon1980 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistThe Plains AcrossJohn B. UnruhAmazonThe Urban CrucibleGary B. NashAmazon

1981 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerAmerican Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876Lawrence A. Cremin...Amazon1981 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistA Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New EnglandLyle KoehlerAmazonOver Here: The First World War and American SocietyDavid M. KennedyAmazon

1982 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerMary Chesnut's Civil WarC. Vann WoodwardAn authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy....Amazon1982 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistPower and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945Akira IriyeAmazonWhite Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African HistoryGeorge M. FredricksonAmazon

1983 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790Rhys L. IsaacIn this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the...Amazon1983 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistSouthern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old SouthBertram Wyatt-BrownAmazonThe Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789Robert MiddlekauffAmazon

1984 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerNo award given...Amazon

1985 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerProphets of RegulationThomas K. McCrawProfiles four key figures in the history of government regulation of business...Amazon1985 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistThe Crucible of RaceJoel WilliamsonAmazonThe Great Father: The United States Government and the American IndiansFrancis Paul PruchaAmazon

1986 Pulitzer Prize - History Winner…The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space AgeWalter A. McDougallWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in History for 1986, this highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on exhaustive research, author and ORBIS editor Walter A. McDougall examines U.S., European, and Sovi...Amazon1986 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistEmigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North AmericaKerby A. MillerAmazonLabor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the PresentJacqueline JonesAmazonNovus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the ConstitutionForrest McDonaldAmazon