Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Pulitzer Prize for History Public
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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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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 trilogy ;)
4 stars
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 Hank Klibanoff, Gene Roberts
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
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series …
Phil in SF says: 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is a 2008 book by American historian Annette Gordon-Reed. It recounts the history …
Phil in SF says: 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's—and the nation's—transformation through the crucible of slavery and emancipation.
In this …
Phil in SF says: 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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5 stars
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
5 stars
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
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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
