Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Pulitzer Prize for History Public
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Custer's Trials by T. J. Stiles
From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically …
Phil in SF says: 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years …
Phil in SF says: 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, …
Phil in SF says: 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who …
Phil in SF says: 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel
The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to …
Phil in SF says: 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators …
Phil in SF says: 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Phil in SF says: 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Phil in SF says: 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Phil in SF says: 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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No Right to an Honest Living by Jacqueline Jones
From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston
Impassioned antislavery …
Phil in SF says: 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal
For centuries, Europeans assumed that indigenous Americans lacked the sophistication to build cities and establish hierarchies. For over a millennium, …
Phil in SF says: 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Combee by Edda L. Fields-Black
The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written …
Phil in SF says: 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
