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Pulitzer Prize for History
American award for history books From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the history of the United States. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[1] The Pulitzer Prize program has also recognized some historical work with its Biography prize, from 1917, and its General Nonfiction prize, from 1962.
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Finalists have been announced since 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.[2]
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In its first 97 years to 2013, the History Pulitzer was awarded 95 times. Two prizes were given in 1989; none in 1919, 1984, and 1994.[2]
1910s–1970s
1980s
Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
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Repeat winners
Five people have won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice.
- Margaret Leech, 1942 for Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 and 1960 for In the Days of McKinley
- Bernard Bailyn, 1968 for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and 1987 for Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
- Paul Horgan, 1955 for Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History and 1976 for Lamy of Santa Fe
- Alan Taylor, 1996 for William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic and 2014 for The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832[64]
- Don E. Fehrenbacher completed The Impending Crisis by David Potter, for which Potter posthumously won the 1977 prize, and won the 1979 prize himself for The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics.
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- The 1925 jury shortlisted The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775–1789 by Allan Nevins and The Colonial Background of the American Revolution by Charles McLean Andrews.[6]
- The 1926 jury shortlisted Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams, Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in America by Claude G. Bowers and L'esprit révolutionnaire en France et aux États-Unis à la fin du XVIIIe siècle by Bernard Faÿ.[7]
- The 1930 jury, consisting of three indivudals, saw two of its members vote for The Tragic Era: The Revolution after Lincoln by Claude G. Bowers for the prize, while one member voted for The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne. The Pulitzer board gave the prize to the latter.[9]
- The 1931 jury shortlisted Builders of the Bay Colony: A Gallery of Our Intellectual Ancestors by Samuel Eliot Morison.[10]
- The 1932 jury also considered The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams, King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America by Frank Lawrence Owsley and The Martial Spirit: A Study of Our War with Spain by Walter Millis.[11]
- The 1933 jury was split, with two members recommending the eventual winner The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner. The third juror submitted a minority opinion recommending Our Times: The United States, 1900–1925: Over Here, 1914–1918 by Mark Sullivan.[12]
- The 1934 jury considered Divided Loyalties: Americans in England During the War of Independence by Lewis Einstein and Our Earliest Colonial Settlements: Their Diversities of Origin and Later Characteristics by Charles McLean Andrews. The Pulitzer board made an independent decision in giving the prize to The People's Choice by Herbert Agar.[13]
- The 1935 jury shortlisted The First Year of the American Revolution by Allen French.[14]
- The 1938 jury shortlisted A History of Chicago — Volume 1: The Beginning of a City, 1673-1848 by Bessie Louise Pierce and A History of the Monroe Doctrine by Dexter Perkins.[16]
- The 1940 jury shortlisted, in order, The Rise of New York Port, 1815-1860 by Robert G. Albion, Canadian-American Relations, 1849-1874 by Lester Burrell Shippee, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century by Perry Miller and America in Midpassage by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard.[17]
- The 1941 jury shortlisted, in order, Norwegian Migration to America: The American Transition by Theodore C. Blegen and The Course of American Democratic Thought: An Intellectual History Since 1815 by Ralph Henry Gabriel.[18]
- The 1942 jury shortlisted, in order, Hands Off: A History of the Monroe Doctrine by Dexter Perkins, The Hero in America: A Chronicle of Hero-Worship by Dixon Wecter, The Continental Congress by Edmund Cody Burnett and Secret History of the American Revolution by Carl Van Doren.[19]
- The 1943 jury shortlisted, in order, The Hidden Civil War: The Story of the Copperheads by Wood Gray and Lee's Lieutenants — Volume 1: Manassas to Malvern Hill by Douglas Southall Freeman.[20]
- The 1944 jury shortlisted, in order, The Year of Decision: 1846 by Bernard DeVoto and The Latin American Policy of the United States by Samuel Flagg Bemis.[21]
- The 1944 jury shortlisted, in order, Lee's Lieutenants — Volume 3: Gettysburg to Appomattox by Douglas Southall Freeman, When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Dixon Wecter and The Completion of Independence, 1790-1830 by John Allen Krout and Dixon Ryan Fox. They also commended Freedom's Ferment: Phases of American Social History to 1860 by Alice Felt Tyler, Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace and Thomas A. Bailey and America and Two Wars by Dexter Perkins. The Pulitzer board made their own selection and awarded Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal.[22]
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