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El Premio Pulitzer de Historia es una categoría establecida desde 1917, que reconoce las mejores obras de literatura histórica sobre los Estados Unidos.
Ganadores 1910 1917: With Americans of Past and Present Days por Jean Jules Jusserand 1918: A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 por James Ford Rhodes 1919: no hubo entrega
1920 1920: The War with Mexico por Justin H. Smith 1921: The Victory at Sea por William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick 1922: The Founding of New England por James Truslow Adams 1923: The Supreme Court in United States History por Charles Warren 1924: The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation por Charles Howard McIlwain 1925: History of the American Frontier por Frederic L. Paxson 1926: A History of the United States por Edward Channing 1927: Pinckney's Treaty por Samuel Flagg Bemis 1928: Main Currents in American Thought por Vernon Louis Parrington 1929: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 por Fred Albert Shannon
1930 1930: The War of Independence por Claude H. Van Tyne 1931: The Coming of the War, 1914 por Bernadotte E. Schmitt 1932: My Experiences in the World War por John J. Pershing 1933: The Significance of Sections in American History por Frederick J. Turner 1934: The People's Choice por Herbert Agar 1935: The Colonial Period of American History por Charles McLean Andrews 1936: A Constitutional History of the United States por Andrew C. McLaughlin 1937: The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 por Van Wyck Brooks 1938: The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 por Paul Herman Buck 1939: A History of American Magazines por Frank Luther Mott
1940 1940: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years por Carl Sandburg 1941: The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 por Marcus Lee Hansen 1942: Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 por Margaret Leech 1943: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In por Esther Forbes 1944: The Growth of American Thought por Merle Curti 1945: Unfinished Business por Stephen Bonsal 1946: The Age of Jackson por Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 1947: Scientists Against Time por James Phinney Baxter III 1948: Across the Wide Missouri por Bernard DeVoto 1949: The Disruption of American Democracy por Roy Franklin Nichols
1950s 1950: Art and Life in America por Oliver W. Larkin 1951: The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840 por R. Carlyle Buley 1952: The Uprooted por Oscar Handlin 1953: The Era of Good Feelings por George Dangerfield 1954: A Stillness at Appomattox por Bruce Catton 1955: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History por Paul Horgan 1956: The Age of Reform por Richard Hofstadter 1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 por George F. Kennan 1958: Banks and Politics in America por Bray Hammond 1959: The Republican Era: 1869–1901 por Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider
1960 1960: In the Days of McKinley por Margaret Leech 1961: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference por Herbert Feis 1962: The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 por Lawrence H. Gipson 1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 por Constance McLaughlin Green 1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town por Sumner Chilton Powell 1965: The Greenback Era por Irwin Unger 1966: The Life of the Mind in America por Perry Miller 1967: Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West por William H. Goetzmann 1968: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution por Bernard Bailyn 1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment por Leonard W. Levy
1970 1970: Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department por Dean Acheson 1971: Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom por James MacGregor Burns 1972: Neither Black nor White por Carl N. Degler 1973: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization por Michael Kammen 1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience por Daniel J. Boorstin 1975: Jefferson and His Time por Dumas Malone 1976: Lamy of Santa Fe por Paul Horgan 1977: The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 por David M. Potter (Completed and edited por Don E. Fehrenbacher) 1978: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business por Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. 1979: The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics por Don E. Fehrenbacher
1980s A partir de aquí también se incluyen los finalistas, después del ganador de cada año.
1980: Been in the Storm So Long por Leon F. Litwack The Plains Across por John B. Unruh The Urban Crucible por Gary B. Nash 1981: American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 por Lawrence A. Cremin A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England por Lyle Koehler Over Here: The First World War and American Society por David M. Kennedy 1982: Mary Chesnut's Civil War por C. Vann Woodward Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945 por Akira Iriye White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History por George M. Fredrickson 1983: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 por Rhys L. Isaac Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South por Bertram Wyatt-Brown The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 por Robert Middlekauff 1984: no award given 1985: Prophets of Regulation por Thomas K. McCraw The Crucible of Race por Joel Williamson The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians por Francis Paul Prucha 1986: ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age por Walter A. McDougall Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America por Kerby A. Miller Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present por Jacqueline Jones Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution por Forrest McDonald 1987: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution por Bernard Bailyn Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference por David Garrow Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945 por David Eisenhower 1988: The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 por Robert V. Bruce The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System por Charles E. Rosenberg The Fall of the House of Labor por David Montgomery 1989: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era por James M. McPherson 1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963 por Taylor Branch A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam por Neil Sheehan Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 por Eric Foner
1990 1990: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines por Stanley Karnow American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870–1970 por Thomas P. Hughes The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I por Hugh Honour 1991: A Midwife's Tale por Laurel Thatcher Ulrich America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink por Kenneth M. Stampp Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 por Lizabeth Cohen The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy por Hugh David Graham 1992: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties por Mark E. Neely, Jr. A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs por Theodore Draper Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West por William Cronon Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century por John Frederick Martin The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 por Richard White 1993: The Radicalism of the American Revolution por Gordon S. Wood Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America por Garry Wills The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction por Edward L. Ayers 1994: no award given Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK por Gerald Posner Crime and Punishment in American History por Lawrence M. Friedman William Faulkner and Southern History por Joel Williamson 1995: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II por Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln in American Memory por Merrill D. Peterson Stories of Scottsboro por James Goodman 1996: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic por Alan Taylor Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb por Richard Rhodes The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic por Lance Banning 1997: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution por Jack N. Rakove Founding Mothers and Fathers por Mary Beth Norton The Battle for Christmas por Stephen Nissenbaum 1998: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion por Edward J. Larson Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America por J. Anthony Lukas Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History por Rogers Smith 1999: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 por Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival por Paula Mitchell Marks The New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age por William E. Burrows
2000 2000: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 por David M. Kennedy The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America por Kevin Phillips Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier por James H. Merrell 2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation por Joseph J. Ellis The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States por Alexander Keyssar Way Out There in the Blue por Frances FitzGerald 2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America por Louis Menand Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation por J. William Harris Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America por Daniel K. Richter 2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943 por Rick Atkinson At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America por Philip Dray Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America por Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz 2004: A Nation Under Our Feet por Steven Hahn Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center por Daniel Okrent They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 por David Maraniss 2005: Washington's Crossing por David Hackett Fischer Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age por Kevin Boyle Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2 por Michael O'Brien 2006: Polio: An American Story por David Oshinsky New York Burning por Jill Lepore The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln por Sean Wilentz 2007: The Race Beat por Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War por Nathaniel Philbrick Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 por James T. Campbell