Pulitzer Prize – History

1987 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerVoyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the RevolutionBernard BailynWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776...Amazon1987 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistBearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceDavid GarrowAmazonEisenhower: At War, 1943–1945David EisenhowerAmazon

1988 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876Robert V. Bruce...Amazon1988 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistThe Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital SystemCharles E. RosenbergAmazonThe Fall of the House of LaborDavid MontgomeryAmazon

1989 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerBattle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War EraJames M. McPhersonFilled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the...AmazonParting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963Taylor BranchIn volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement. Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is de...Amazon1989 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in VietnamNeil Sheeh...

1990 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerIn Our Image: America's Empire in the PhilippinesStanley KarnowTraces the history of the Philippines, discusses the influence of Spain and the United States, and looks at the problems facing the Philippines today....Amazon1990 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistAmerican Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870–1970Thomas P. HughesAmazonThe Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War IHugh HonourAmazon

1991 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerA Midwife's TaleLaurel Thatcher UlrichWINNER 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 ...Amazon1991 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistAmerica in 1857: A Nation on the BrinkKenneth M. StamppAmazonMaking a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939Lizabeth CohenAmazonThe Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National PolicyHugh David GrahamAmazon

1992 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil LibertiesMark E. Neely, Jr.If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln's record on the Constitution and individual rights has fueled a century of debate, from charges that Democrats were ...Amazon1992 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistA Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra AffairsTheodore DraperAmazonNature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great WestWilliam CrononAmazonProfits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth CenturyJohn Frederick MartinAmazonThe Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815Richard WhiteAmazon

1993 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Radicalism of the American RevolutionGordon S. WoodIn a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a bre...Amazon1993 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistLincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade AmericaGarry WillsAmazonThe Promise of the New South: Life After ReconstructionEdward L. AyersAmazon

1994 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerNo award given...Amazon1994 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistCase Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFKGerald PosnerAmazonCrime and Punishment in American HistoryLawrence M. FriedmanAmazonWilliam Faulkner and Southern HistoryJoel WilliamsonAmazon

1995 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerNo Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor RooseveltPresents a social history of the United States in 1940, along with a moment-by-moment account of Roosevelt's leadership and the private lives of the president and First Lady, whose remarkable partnership transformed America. (This book was previously featu...Amazon1995 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistLincoln in American MemoryMerrill D. PetersonAmazonStories of ScottsboroJames GoodmanAmazon

1996 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerWilliam Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American RepublicAlan TaylorWilliam Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book. William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a...Amazon1996 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistDark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen BombRichard RhodesAmazonThe Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal RepublicLance BanningAmazon