Pulitzer Prize for History

• 1917: J.J. Jusserand, With Americans of Past and Present Days
• 1918: James Ford Rhodes, A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
• 1919: no award given
• 1920: Justin H. Smith, The War with Mexico
• 1921: William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick. The Victory at Sea
• 1922: James Truslow Adams, The Founding of New England

• 1923: Charles Warren, The Supreme Court in United States History
• 1924: Charles Howard McIlwain, The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
• 1925: Frederic L. Paxson, History of the American Frontier
• 1926: Edward Channing, A History of the United States
• 1927: Samuel Flagg Bemis, Pinckney's Treaty
• 1928: Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought
• 1929: Fred Albert Shanoon, The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865
• 1930: Claude H. Van Tyne, The War of Independence
• 1931: Bernadotte E. Schmitt, The Coming of the War, 1914
• 1932: John J. Pershing, My Experiences in the World War
• 1933: Frederick J. Turner, The Significance of Sections in American History
• 1934: Herbert Agar, The People's Choice
• 1935: Charles McLean Andrews, The Colonial Period of American History
• 1936: Andrew C. McLaughlin, A Constitutional History of the United States
• 1937: Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865
• 1938: Paul Herman Buck, The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900
• 1939: Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines
• 1940: Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
• 1941: Marcus Lee Hansen, The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860
• 1942: Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865
• 1943: Esther Forbes, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
• 1944: Merle Curti, The Growth of American Thought
• 1945: Stephen Bonsal, Unfinished Business
• 1946: Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr, ''The Age of Jackson"
• 1947: James Phinney Baxter III, Scientists Against Time
• 1948: Bernard Devoto, Across the Wide Missouri
• 1949: Roy Franklin Nichols, The Disruption of American Democracy
• 1950: Oliver W. Larkin, Art and Life in America
• 1951: R. Carlyle Buley, The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840
• 1952: Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted
• 1953: George Dangerfield, The Era of Good Feelings
• 1954: Bruce Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox
• 1955: Paul Horgan, Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
• 1956: Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
• 1957: George F. Kennan, Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920
• 1958: Bray Hammond, Banks and Politics in America
• 1959: Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider, The Republican Era: l869-1901
• 1960: Margaret Leech, In the Days of McKinley
• 1961: Herbert Feis, Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference
• 1962: Lawrence H. Gipson, The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763-1766
• 1963: Constance McLaughlin Green, Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878
• 1964: Sumner Chilton Powell, Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
• 1965: Irwin Unger, The Greenback Era
• 1966: Perry Miller, The Life of the Mind in America
• 1967: William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
• 1968: Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
• 1969: Leonard W. Levy, Origins of the Fifth Amendment
• 1970: Dean Acheson, Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department
• 1971: James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom
• 1972: Carl N. Degler, Neither Black Nor White
• 1973: Michael Kammen, People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
• 1974: Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience
• 1975: Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time
• 1976: Paul Horgan, Lamy of Santa Fe
• 1977: David M. Potter and Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867
• 1978: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
• 1979: Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case
• 1980: Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long
• 1981: Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
• 1982: C. Vann Woodward (ed.), Mary Chesnut's Civil War
• 1983: Rhys L. Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
• 1984: no award given
• 1985: Thomas K. McGraw, Prophets of Regulation
• 1986: Walter A. McDougall, ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
• 1987: Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
• 1988: Robert V. Bruce, The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876
• 1989: James M. Mc.Pherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era and Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
• 1990: Stanley Karnow, In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
• 1991: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale
• 1992: Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
• 1993: Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
• 1994: no award given
• 1995: Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
• 1996: Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
• 1997: Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
• 1998: Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
• 1999: Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
• 2000: David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
• 2001: Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
• 2002: Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America