Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Pulitzer Prize for History Public
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Freedom from fear by David M. Kennedy (The Oxford history of the United States ;)
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. …
Phil in SF says: 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Founding brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
4 stars
In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award--winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly …
Phil in SF says: 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand
he Civil War made America a modern nation, unleashing forces of industrialism and expansion that had been kept in check …
Phil in SF says: 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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An army at dawn by Rick Atkinson
The liberation of Europe and defeat of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation …
Phil in SF says: 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an …
Phil in SF says: 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed …
Phil in SF says: 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Polio: an American story by David M. Oshinsky
4 stars
[This book] tells the ... story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from …
Phil in SF says: 2006 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Race Beat by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff
his is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity …
Phil in SF says: 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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What hath God wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford history of the United States)
A social and political history of the United States from the end of the War of 1812 to the End …
Phil in SF says: 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Phil in SF says: 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Phil in SF says: 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Of the great figures in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting …
Phil in SF says: 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall
The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of …
Phil in SF says: 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor
This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the …
Phil in SF says: 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn
We mainly know of the Mandan Indians—iconic plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for …
Phil in SF says: 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
