Pulitzer Prize – History

1997 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerOriginal Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the ConstitutionJack N. RakoveFrom abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from incept...Amazon1997 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistFounding Mothers and FathersMary Beth NortonAmazonThe Battle for ChristmasStephen NissenbaumAmazon

1998 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerSummer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and ReligionEdward J. LarsonThe Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious cou...Amazon1998 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistBig Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of AmericaJ. Anthony LukasAmazonCivic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. HistoryRogers SmithAmazon

1999 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerGotham: A History of New York City to 1898Edwin G. Burrows and Mike WallaceTo European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, ...Amazon1999 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistIn a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and SurvivalPaula Mitchell MarksAmazonThis New Ocean: The Story of the First Space AgeWilliam E. BurrowsAmazon

2000 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerFreedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945David M. KennedyBetween 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. The Depress...Amazon2000 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistInto the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania FrontierJames H. MerrellAmazonThe Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-AmericaKevin PhillipsAmazon

2001 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerFounding Brothers: The Revolutionary GenerationJoseph J. EllisIn this landmark work of history and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Joseph J. Ellis explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals—Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison—confronted the overwhelming challeng...Amazon2001 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistThe Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United StatesAlexander KeyssarAmazonWay Out There in the BlueFrances FitzGeraldAmazon

2002 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in AmericaLouis MenandA narrative about personalities and American history is told through the story of an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872 to talk about ideas....Amazon2002 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistDeep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of SegregationJ. William HarrisAmazonFacing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early AmericaDaniel K. RichterAmazon

2003 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerAn Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943Rick AtkinsonIn this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943....Amazon2003 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistAt the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black AmericaPhilip DrayAmazonRereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century AmericaHelen Lefkowitz HorowitzAmazon

2004 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerA Nation Under Our FeetSteven HahnEmphasizing the role of kinship, labor, and networks in the African American community, the author retraces six generations of black struggles since the end of the Civil War, revealing a "nation" under construction....Amazon2004 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistGreat Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller CenterDaniel OkrentAmazonThey Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967David MaranissAmazon

2005 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerWashington's CrossingDavid Hackett FischerSix 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...Amazon2005 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistArc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz AgeKevin BoyleAmazonConjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2Michael O'BrienAmazon

2006 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerPolio: An American StoryDavid OshinskyHere David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond....Amazon2006 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistNew York BurningJill LeporeAmazonThe Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to LincolnSean WilentzAmazon