A list of Pulitzer Prize winners for U.S. History.
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The Pulitzer Prizes, established and endowed by Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), honor excellence in American literature, journalism, drama and music. The prizes, administered by Columbia University, bestow on winners both literary prestige and a cash prize.
For years not listed, no award was made.
- 1917
- With Americans of Past and Present Days, J. J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to United States
- 1918
- A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865, James Ford Rhodes
- 1920
- The War With Mexico, Justin H. Smith
- 1921
- The Victory at Sea, William Sowden Sims, in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick
- 1922
- The Founding of New England, James Truslow Adams
- 1923
- The Supreme Court in United States History, Charles Warren
- 1924
- The American Revolution—A Constitutional Interpretation, Charles Howard McIlwain
- 1925
- A History of the American Frontier, Frederic L. Paxson
- 1926
- The History of the United States, Edward Channing
- 1927
- Pinckney's Treaty, Samuel Flagg Bemis
- 1928
- Main Currents in American Thought, Vernon Louis Parrington
- 1929
- The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865, Fred Albert Shannon
- 1930
- The War of Independence, Claude H. Van Tyne
- 1931
- The Coming of the War: 1914, Bernadotte E. Schmitt
- 1932
- My Experiences in the World War, John J.
Pershing
- 1933
- The Significance of Sections in American History, Frederick J. Turner
- 1934
- The People's Choice, Herbert Agar
- 1935
- The Colonial Period of American History, Charles McLean Andrews
- 1936
- The Constitutional History of the United States, Andrew C. McLaughlin
- 1937
- The Flowering of New England, Van Wyck Brooks
- 1938
- The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900, Paul Herman Buck
- 1939
- A History of American Magazines, Frank Luther Mott
- 1940
- Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Carl
Sandburg
- 1941
- The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860, Marcus Lee Hansen
- 1942
- Reveille in Washington, Margaret Leech
- 1943
- Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, Esther Forbes
- 1944
- The Growth of American Thought, Merle Curti
- 1945
- Unfinished Business, Stephen Bonsal
- 1946
- The Age of Jackson, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- 1947
- Scientists Against Time, James Phinney Baxter, 3rd
- 1948
- Across the Wide Missouri, Bernard DeVoto
- 1949
- The Disruption of American Democracy, Roy Franklin Nichols
- 1950
- Art and Life in America, Oliver W. Larkin
- 1951
- The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840, R. Carlyle Buley
- 1952
- The Uprooted, Oscar Handlin
- 1953
- The Era of Good Feelings, George Dangerfield
- 1954
- A Stillness at Appomattox, Bruce Catton
- 1955
- Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History, Paul Horgan
- 1956
- The Age of Reform, Richard Hofstadter
- 1957
- Russia Leaves the War: Soviet–American Relations, 1917–1920, George F. Kennan
- 1958
- Banks and Politics in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, Bray Hammond
- 1959
- The Republican Era: 1869–1901, Leonard D. White, assisted by Jean Schneider
- 1960
- In the Days of McKinley, Margaret Leech
- 1961
- Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference, Herbert Feis
- 1962
- The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, Lawrence H. Gipson
- 1963
- Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878, Constance McLaughlin Green
- 1964
- Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, Sumner Chilton Powell
- 1965
- The Greenback Era, Irwin Unger
- 1966
- Life of the Mind in America, Perry Miller
- 1967
- Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and Scientist in the Winning of the American West, William H. Goetzmann
- 1968
- The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn
- 1969
- Origins of the Fifth Amendment, Leonard W. Levy
- 1970
- Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department, Dean Acheson
- 1971
- Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, James McGregor Burns
- 1972
- Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States, Carl N. Degler
- 1973
- People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origin of American Civilization, Michael
Kammen
- 1974
- The Americans: The Democratic Experience, Vol. 3, Daniel J. Boorstin
- 1975
- Jefferson and His Time, Dumas Malone
- 1976
- Lamy of Santa Fe, Paul Horgan
- 1977
- The Impending Crisis: 1841-1861, David M. Potter
- 1978
- The Invisible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
- 1979
- The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in Law and Politics, Don E. Fehrenbacher
- 1980
- Been in the Storm So Long, Leon F. Litwack
- 1981
- American Education: The National Experience; 1783-1876, Lawrence A. Cremin
- 1982
- Mary Chesnut's Civil War, C. Vann Woodward, editor
- 1983
- The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, Rhys L. Isaac
- 1985
- The Prophets of Regulation, Thomas K. McCraw
- 1986
- The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age, Walter A. McDougall
- 1987
- Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution, Bernard Bailyn
- 1988
- The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876, Robert V. Bruce
- 1989
- Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch; Battle Cry of Freedom, James M. McPherson
- 1990
- In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines, Stanley Karnow
- 1991
- A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- 1992
- The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, Mark E. Neely, Jr.
- 1993
- The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon S. Wood
- 1995
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Doris Kearns Goodwin
- 1996
- William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, Alan Taylor
- 1997
- Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Jack N. Rakove
- 1998
- Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, Edward J. Larson
- 1999
- Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
- 2000
- Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, David M. Kennedy
- 2001
- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, 1929-1945, Joseph J. Ellis
- 2002
- The Metaphysical Club, 1929-1945, Louis Menand III
- 2003
- An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, 1929-1945, Rick Atkinson
- 2004
- A Nation Under Our Feet, Steven Hahn
- 2005
- Washington's Crossing, David Hackett Fischer
- 2006
- Polio: An American Story, David M. Oshinsky
- 2007
- The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
- 2008
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, Daniel Walker Howe
- 2009
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, Annette Gordon-Reed
- 2010
- Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Liaquat Ahamed
- 2011
- The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, Eric Foner
- 2012
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Manning Marable
- 2013
- Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall
- 2014
- The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, Alan Taylor
- 2015
- Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, Elizabeth A. Fenn
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