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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 (2025)

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal

21 winners recordedOfficial Site

Award-Winning Books in History

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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

by Kathleen DuVal

1 award · through 2025

Pulitzer Prize for History

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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

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

by Jefferson Cowie

1 award · through 2023

Pulitzer Prize for History

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

by Nicole Eustace

1 award · through 2022

Pulitzer Prize for History

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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

by Marcia Chatelain

1 award · through 2021

Pulitzer Prize for History

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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

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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

by David W. Blight

1 award · through 2019

Pulitzer Prize for History

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The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea

by Jack E. Davis

1 award · through 2018

Pulitzer Prize for History

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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

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

by T. J. Stiles

1 award · through 2016

Pulitzer Prize for History

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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

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

by Alan Taylor

1 award · through 2014

Pulitzer Prize for History

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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

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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

by Manning Marable

1 award · through 2012

Pulitzer Prize for History

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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

by Eric Foner

1 award · through 2011

Pulitzer Prize for History

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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

by Liaquat Ahamed

1 award · through 2010

Pulitzer Prize for History

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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

by Annette Gordon-Reed

1 award · through 2009

Pulitzer Prize for History

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

by Daniel Walker Howe

1 award · through 2008

Pulitzer Prize for History

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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

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Polio: An American Story

by David Oshinsky

1 award · through 2006

Pulitzer Prize for History

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Washington's Crossing

by David Hackett Fischer

1 award · through 2005

Pulitzer Prize for History