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Pulitzer Prize for History

Pulitzer Prize for a distinguished book on the history of the United States.

Est. 1917United States
history

Prize: $15,000

Latest Winner (2026)

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore

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Award-Winning Books in History

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Cover of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

by Annette Gordon-Reed

2 awards · through 2009

Pulitzer Prize for History • NBA Nonfiction

Cover of We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

by Jill Lepore

1 award · through 2026

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

by Kathleen DuVal

1 award · through 2025

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

by Jacqueline Jones

1 award · through 2024

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie

Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

by Jefferson Cowie

1 award · through 2023

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

by Nicole Eustace

1 award · through 2022

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

by Marcia Chatelain

1 award · through 2021

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel

Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

by W. Caleb McDaniel

1 award · through 2020

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

by David W. Blight

1 award · through 2019

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis

The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea

by Jack E. Davis

1 award · through 2018

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

by Heather Ann Thompson

1 award · through 2017

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T. J. Stiles

Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

by T. J. Stiles

1 award · through 2016

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn

Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People

by Elizabeth A. Fenn

1 award · through 2015

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor

The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

by Alan Taylor

1 award · through 2014

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

by Fredrik Logevall

1 award · through 2013

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

by Manning Marable

1 award · through 2012

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

by Eric Foner

1 award · through 2011

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

by Liaquat Ahamed

1 award · through 2010

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 by Daniel Walker Howe

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848

by Daniel Walker Howe

1 award · through 2008

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff

1 award · through 2007

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky

Polio: An American Story

by David Oshinsky

1 award · through 2006

Pulitzer Prize for History

Cover of Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer

Washington's Crossing

by David Hackett Fischer

1 award · through 2005

Pulitzer Prize for History