The Pulitzer Prize is named for journalist Joseph Pulitzer and is awarded annually to works determined by the Pulitzer Prize Board to be distinguished.

For a complete list of winners go to http://www.pulitzer.org

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 By Howe, Daniel Walker 2007/11 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780195078947 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History Historian Howe illuminates the period of American history from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. ...More

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation By Roberts, Gene Klibanoff, Hank 2006/10 - Alfred A. Knopf 9780679403814 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History Drawing on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews, veteran journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff go behind the headlines and datelines to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings and propelled its citizens to act. ...More

Polio: An American Story By Oshinsky, David M. 2005/04 - Oxford University Press 0195152948 Check the Library Catalog Winner-2006 Pulitzer Prize for History Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin, and other key players, Oshinsky paints a remarkable portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the widespread panic over polio to shed light on national obsessions and fears. ...More

Washington's Crossing By Fischer, David Hackett 2004/02 - Oxford University Press 0195170342 Check the Library Catalog Winner-2005 Pulitzer Prize for History Massachusetts Book Award - 2005 Nonfiction Honor Winner - 2005 ALA Notable Non-Fiction Selection In a dramatic and colorful narrative of a pivotal moment in American history, we see how the campaign developed in a web of hard choices by many actors on both sides of the Delaware. 91 halftones,15 maps. ...More

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to TheGreat Migration By Hahn, Steven 2003/11 - Belknap Press 0674011694 Check the Library Catalog Winner-2004 Pulitzer Prize for History Presenting both an inspiring and a troubling perspective on American democracy, this 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner is the epic story of how African Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves to a political people--an embryonic black nation. ...More

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy By Atkinson, Rick 2002/10 - Henry Holt & Company 0805062882 Check the Library Catalog Winner-2003 Pulitzer Prize for History In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. Illustrations. 18 maps. ...More

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America By Menand, Louis 2002/04 - Farrar Straus Giroux 0374528497 Check the Library Catalog Winner-2002 Pulitzer Prize for History In an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, Menand discusses the Metaphysical Club, an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, and Charles Sanders Peirce. 21 photos. ...More

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation By Ellis, Joseph J. 2000/10 - Alfred A. Knopf 0375405445 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History From the author of "American Sphinx", the award-winning biography of Thomas Jefferson, comes an illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. ...More

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 By Kennedy, David M. Woodward, C. Vann 1999/03 - Oxford University Press 0195038347 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History The newest volume in the award-winning Oxford History of the United States--a brilliant narrative spanning the Great Depression, FDR's New Deal, and the Second World War. 58 illustrations. ...More

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 By Burrows, Edwin G. Wallace, Mike 1998/10 - Oxford University Press 0195116348 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History The first volume in a truly monumental two-volume history of New York City, this magisterial work begins with the earliest Indian tribes and ends with the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. 150 photos & linecuts. 15 maps. ...More

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science By Larson, Edward J. Larson, Edward J. 1998/09 - Harvard University Press 0674854292 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 1998 Pulitzer Prize for History In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the unlikely setting for one of our century's most contentious dramas: the Scopes trial and the ensuing debate over science, religion, and their place in education. Pairing archival material with the author's keen legal and historical analysis, this book provides a fresh interpretation of this pivotal event in American history. Illustrations. ...More

Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution By Rakove, Jack N. 1997/05 - Vintage Books USA 9780679781219 Check the Library Catalog Winner-1997 Pulitzer Prize for History From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has meant different things at different times to different groups of Americans. ...More

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic By Taylor, Alan 1999/05 - Vintage Books USA 0679773002 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 1996 Pulitzer Prize for History An innovative work of biography, social history, and literary analysis, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book presents the story of two men, William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fennimore Cooper, who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic. Taylor shows how Americans resolved their revolution through the creation of new social forms and new stories that evolved with the expansion of our frontier. of photos. ...More

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II By Goodwin, Doris Kearns Sampson 2007/01 - Simon & Schuster 0684804484 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, this Pulitzer Prize-winning work paints a detailed, intimate portrait of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt and provides a brilliant narrative account of America during wartime. ...More

The Radicalism of the American Revolution By Wood, Gordon 1993/03 - Vintage Books USA 0679736883 Check the Library Catalog Winner - 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers. ...More