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Literary Awards

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for History
Updated: 09/18/09

Year Title Author Call Number Located
2009 The Hemingses of Monticello: an American Family Annette Gordon-Reed E332.74 .G67 2008 Books
2008 What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1948 Daniel Walker Howe E338 H69 2007 Books
2007 The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Right Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff PN 4888 .R3 R63 2006 Books
2006 Polio: An American Story David M. Oshinsky RC181.U5 O83 2005 Books
2005 Washington’s Crossing David Hackett Fischer E263 .P4 F575 2004 Books
2004 A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration Steven Hahn E185.2 .H15 2003 Books
2003 An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 Rick Atkinson D 766.82 A82 2002 Books 
2002 The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Louis Menand E169.1 .M546 2001 Books
2001 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Joseph J. Ellis E302.5 .E45 2000 Books
2000 Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 David M. Kennedy E173 .O94 1999 Books
1999 Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 Edwin G. Burrows F128.3 .B95 1999 Books
1998 Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion Edward J. Larson KF224 .S3 L37 1997 Books
1997 Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution Jack N. Rakove KF4541 .R35 1998 Books
1996 William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic Alan Taylor F129 .C77 T38 1996 Books
1995 No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II Doris Kearns Goodwin E807 .G66 1994 Books
1993 The Radicalism of the American Revolution Gordon S. Wood E209 .W65 1992 Books
1992 The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties Mark E. Neely, Jr. E457.2 .N46 1991 Books
1991 A Midwife’s Tale Laurel Thatcher Ulrich F29 .H15 U47 1991 Books
1990 In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines Stanley Karnow On Order 7/10/09  
1989 Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 Taylor Branch E185.61 .B7914 1988 Books
1989 Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era James M. McPherson E173 .O94 1988 Books
1988 The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 Robert V. Bruce Q127 .U6 B78 1987 Books
1987 Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution Bernard Bailyn JV7618 .N7 B35 1988 Books
1986 …the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age Walter A. McDougall Not at STL 1/17/06  
1985 Prophets of Regulation Thomas K. McCraw HD3616 .U46 M38 1984 Books
1984 No Award      
1983 The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 Rhys L. Isaac F229 .I8 1982 Books
1982 Mary Chesnut’s Civil War C. Vann Woodward E487 .C5 1981 Books
1980 Been in the Storm So Long Leon F. Litwack E185.2 .L57 1980 Books
1979 The Dred Scott Case Don E. Fehrenbacher KF4545 .S5 F432 Books
1978 The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. On Order 7/10/09  
1977 The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 David M. Potter E459 .P67 1976 Books
1975 Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V Dumas Malone E332 .M25 1948 Books
1974 The Americans: The Democratic Experience Daniel J. Boorstin E169.1 .B7513 1974 Books 
1973 People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization Michael Kammen E 162 .K2 1990 Books 
1972 Neither Black Nor White Carl N. Degler F2659 .N4 D42 1986 Books
1971 Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom James MacGregor Burns E807 .B836 1970 Books
1970 Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department Dean Acheson E744 .A2174 Books
1969 Origins of the Fifth Amendment Leonard W. Levy KD8386 .L48 1968 Books
1968 The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Bernard Bailyn JA84 .U5 B3 1992 Books
1967 Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West William H. Goetzmann F591 .G62 1993 Books
1966 The Life of the Mind in America Perry Miller E169.1 .M6273 1965 Books
1965 The Greenback Era Irwin Unger HG604 .U5 Books
1964 Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town Sumner Chilton Powell F74 .S94 P74 1963 Books
1963 Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 Constance McLaughlin Green Not at STL 1/17/06  
1962

The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766

vol. 10 of The British Empire Before the American Revolution

Lawrence H. Gipson DA500 .G52   Books
1961 Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference Herbert Feis D734 .B4 1960 Books
1960 In the Days of McKinley Margaret Leech E711.6 .L4 Books
1959 The Republican Era: 1869-1901 Leonard D. White JK231 .W5 1958 Books
1958 Banks and Politics in America Bray Hammond Not at STL 1/17/06  
1957 Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 George F. Kennan Not at STL 1/17/06  
1956 The Age of Reform Richard Hofstadter E743 .H63 1955 Books
1955 Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History Paul Horgan F392 .R5 H65 1954 Books
1954 A Stillness at Appomattox Bruce Catton E470.2 .C39 1953 Books
1953 The Era of Good Feelings George Dangerfield E371 .D3 1989 Books
1952 The Uprooted Oscar Handlin E184 .A1 H27 Books
1951 The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 Carlyle Buley F484.3 .B94 1950 Books
1950 Art and Life in America Oliver W. Larkin Not at STL 1/17/06  
1949 The Disruption of American Democracy Roy Franklin Nichols E436 .N56 1962 Books
1948 Across the Wide Missouri Bernard Devoto F592 .D36 Books
1947 Scientists Against Time James Phinney Baxter 3rd Not at STL 1/17/06  
1946 The Age of Jackson Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. E381 .S38 1945 Books
1945 Unfinished Business Stephen Bonsal Not at STL 1/17/06  
1944 The Growth of American Thought Merle Curti E169.1 .C87 1943 Books
1943 Paul Revere and the World He Lived In Esther Forbes F69 .R43 F67 1999 Books
1942 Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 Margaret Leech E501 .L4 1941 Books
1941 The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 Marcus Lee Hansen JV6451 .H3 1951 Books
1940 Abraham Lincoln: The War Years Carl Sandburg E457.4 .S362 1939 Books
1939 A History of American Magazines Frank Luther Mott Not at STL 1/07/06  
1938 The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 Paul Herman Buck E661 .B84 Books
1937 The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 Van Wyck Brooks PS243 .B7 1937 Books
1936 A Constitutional History of the United States Andrew C. McLaughlin Not at STL 1/17/06  
1935 The Colonial Period of American History Charles McLean Andrews E188 .A5745 1964 Books
1934 The People’s Choice Herbert Agar Not at STL 1/17/06  
1933 The Significance of Sections in American History Frederick J. Turner E179.5 .T957 1993eb Electronic Books
1932 My Experiences in the World War John J. Pershing D570 .P44 1931 Books
1931 The Coming of the War 1914 Bernadotte E. Schmitt D511 .S275 1966 Books
1930 The War of Independence Claude H. Van Tyne Not at STL 1/17/06  
1929 The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 Fred Albert Shannon Not at STL 1/17/06  
1928 Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. Vernon Louis Parrington Vol. 2 only Electronic Books
1927 Pinckney’s Treaty Samuel Flagg Bemis E313 .B44 1960 Books
1926 A History of the United States Edward Channing E178 .C44 1925 Books
1925 History of the American Frontier Frederic L. Paxson Not at STL 1/17/06  
1924 The American Revolution – A Constitutional Interpretation  Charles Howard McIlwain Not at STL 1/17/06  
1923 The Supreme Court in United States History Charles Warren Not at STL 1/17/06  
1922 The Founding of New England James Truslow Adams Not at STL 1/17/06  
1921 The Victory at Sea Sowden Sims Not at STL 1/17/06  
1920 The War with Mexico, 2 vols. Justin H. Smith Not at STL 1/17/06  
1919 No Award      
1918 A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 James Ford Rhodes Not at STL 1/17/06  
1917 With Americans of Past and Present Days J.J. Jusserand Not at STL 1/17/06  
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