Pulitzer-Preis/Geschichte

Der Pulitzer-Preis für Geschichte (Pulitzer Prize for History) wird seit 1917 für das beste Buch über die amerikanische Geschichte vergeben.

Liste der Preisträger:

2000–2009

• 2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family von Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)
• 2008: What Hath God Wrought von Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
• 2007: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation von Gene Roberts und Hank Klibanoff
• 2006: Polio: An American Story von David Oshinsky
• 2005: Washington's Crossing von David Hackett Fischer
• 2004: A Nation Under Our Feet von Steven Hahn
• 2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943 von Rick Atkinson
• 2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America von Louis Menand
• 2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation von Joseph J. Ellis
• 2000: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 von David M. Kennedy

1990–1999

• 1999: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 von Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
• 1998: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion von Edward J. Larson
• 1997: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution von Jack N. Rakove
• 1996: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic von Alan Taylor
• 1995: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II von Doris Kearns Goodwin
• 1994: es wurde kein Preis vergeben
• 1993: The Radicalism of the American Revolution von Gordon S. Wood
• 1992: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties von Mark E. Neely, Jr.
• 1991: A Midwife's Tale von Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• 1990: In Our Bild: America's Empire in the Philippines von Stanley Karnow

1980–1989

• 1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963 von Taylor Branch
• 1989: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era von James M. McPherson
• 1988: The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 von Robert V. Bruce
• 1987: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution von Bernard Bailyn
• 1986:. ..the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age von Walter A. McDougall
• 1985: Prophets of Regulation von Thomas K. McGraw
• 1984: es wurde kein Preis vergeben
• 1983: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 von Rhys L. Isaac
• 1982: Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward
• 1981: American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 von Lawrence A. Cremin
• 1980: Been in the Storm So Long von Leon F. Litwack

1970–1979

• 1979: The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics von Don E. Fehrenbacher
• 1978: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business von Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
• 1977: The Impending Crisis, 1841–1867 von David M. Potter (Vervollständigt und geschrieben von Don E. Fehrenbacher)
• 1976: Lamy of Santa Fe von Paul Horgan
• 1975: Jefferson and His Time von Dumas Malone
• 1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience von Daniel J. Boorstin
• 1973: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization von Michael Kammen
• 1972: Neither Black Nor White von Carl N. Degler
• 1971: Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom von James MacGregor Burns
• 1970: Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department von Dean Acheson

1960–1969

• 1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment von Leonard W. Levy
• 1968: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution von Bernard Bailyn
• 1967: Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West von William H. Goetzmann
• 1966: The Life of the Mind in America von Perry Miller
• 1965: The Greenback Era von Irwin Unger
• 1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town von Sumner Chilton Powell
• 1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 von Constance McLaughlin Green
• 1962: The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 von Lawrence H. Gipson
• 1961: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference von Herbert Feis
• 1960: In the Days of McKinley von Margaret Leech

1950–1959

• 1959: The Republican Era: 1869–1901 von Leonard D. White und Jean Schneider
• 1958: Banks and Politics in America von Bray Hammond
• 1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 von George F. Kennan
• 1956: The Age of Reform von Richard Hofstadter
• 1955: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History von Paul Horgan
• 1954: A Stillness at Appomattox von Bruce Catton
• 1953: The Era of Good Feelings von George Dangerfield
• 1952: The Uprooted von Oscar Handlin
• 1951: The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840 von R. Carlyle Buley
• 1950: Art and Life in America von Oliver W. Larkin

1940–1949

• 1949: The Disruption of American Democracy von Roy Franklin Nichols
• 1948: Across the Wide Missouri von Bernard DeVoto
• 1947: Scientists Against Time von James Phinney Baxter III
• 1946: The Age of Jackson von Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• 1945: Unfinished Business von Stephen Bonsal
• 1944: The Growth of American Thought von Merle Curti
• 1943: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In von Esther Forbes
• 1942: Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 von Margaret Leech
• 1941: The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 von Marcus Lee Hansen
• 1940: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years von Carl Sandburg

1930–1939

• 1939: A History of American Magazines von Frank Luther Mott
• 1938: The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 von Paul Herman Buck
• 1937: The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 von Van Wyck Brooks
• 1936: A Constitutional History of the United States von Andrew C. McLaughlin
• 1935: The Colonial Period of American History von Charles McLean Andrews
• 1934: The People's Choice von Herbert Agar
• 1933: The Significance of Sections in American History von Frederick J. Turner
• 1932: My Experiences in the World War von John J. Pershing
• 1931: The Coming of the War, 1914 von Bernadotte E. Schmitt
• 1930: The War of Independence von Claude H. Van Tyne

1920–1929

• 1929: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 von Fred Albert Shannon
• 1928: Main Currents in American Thought von Vernon Louis Parrington
• 1927: Pinckney's Treaty von Samuel Flagg Bemis
• 1926: A History of the United States by Edward Channing
• 1925: History of the American Frontier von Frederic L. Paxson
• 1924: The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation von Charles Howard McIlwain
• 1923: The Supreme Court in United States History von Charles Warren
• 1922: The Founding of New England von James Truslow Adams
• 1921: The Victory at Sea von William Sowden Sims und Burton J. Hendrick
• 1920: The War with Mexico von Justin H. Smith

1917–1919

• 1919: Preis wurde nicht vergeben
• 1918: A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 von James Ford Rhodes
• 1917: With Americans of Past and Present Days von Jean Jules Jusserand