Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Pulitzer Prize for History Public
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The heavens and the earth by Walter A. McDougall
4 stars
The book chronicles the politics of the Space Race, comparing the different approaches of the US and the USSR. ...the …
Phil in SF says: 1986 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Voyagers to the West by Bernard Bailyn
The years just before the American Revolution—years in which immigration to the New World from Britain increased dramatically—are the focus …
Phil in SF says: 1987 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Launching of Modern American Science by Robert V. Bruce
Looks at the nineteenth century origins of American science, discusses the influence of the Civil War, and describes financial support, …
Phil in SF says: 1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Battle cry of freedom by James M. McPherson (The Oxford history of the United States ;)
A military, political, and social history of the Civil War.
Phil in SF says: 1989 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch (America in the King Years, #1)
5 stars
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American Civil Rights Movement, Parting the Waters is destined to …
Phil in SF says: 1989 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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In Our Image by Stanley Karnow
Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History, has now written an enthralling account of an almost forgotten subject: America's …
Phil in SF says: 1990 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Phil in SF says: 1991 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Fate of Liberty by Mark E. Neely Jr.
If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of …
Phil in SF says: 1992 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
The Radicalism of the American Revolution is a nonfiction book by historian Gordon S. Wood, published by Vintage Books in …
Phil in SF says: 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
3 stars
No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods …
Phil in SF says: 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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In this story of a frontier village in the early American Republic, Alan Taylor explores the lives of Judge William …
Phil in SF says: 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Original meanings by Jack N. Rakove
What did the U.S. Constitution originally mean, and who has understood its meaning best? Do we look to the intentions …
Phil in SF says: 1997 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the unlikely setting for one of our century's …
Phil in SF says: 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Gotham by Mike Wallace, Edwin G. Burrows
In Gotham, Edwin O. Burrows and Mike Wallace have written an epic as vast and varied as the city it …
Phil in SF says: 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Freedom from Fear by David M. Kennedy
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 is a Pulitzer Prize–winning book written in 1999 by …
Phil in SF says: 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
