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The Pulitzer Prizes are named for the nineteenth-centory American publisher Joseph Pulitzer. His will established the prizes which today are awarded in 21 categories. The prize for history is "for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States." The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917.
| 2004 | Steven Hahn | A Nation Under Our Feet |
| 2003 | Rick Rick Atkinson | An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-43 |
| 2002 | Louis Menand | The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America |
| 2001 | Joseph J. Ellis | Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation |
| 2000 | David M. Kennedy | Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 |
| 1999 | Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace | Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 |
| 1998 | Edward J. Larson | Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over |
| 1997 | Jack N. Racove | Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution |
| 1996 | Alan Taylor | William Cooper's Town |
| 1995 | Doris Kearns Goodwin | No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 1994 | No Award | |
| 1993 | Gordon S. Wood | The Radicalism of the American Revolution |
| 1992 | Mark E. Neely Jr. | The Fate of Liberty |
| 1991 | Laura Thatcher Ulrich | A Midwife's Tale |
| 1990 | Stanley Karnow | In Our Image |
| 1989 | Taylor Branch | Parting the Waters |
| 1989 | James M. McPherson | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era |
| 1988 | Robert V. Bruce | The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 |
| 1987 | Bernard Bailyn | Voyagers to the West |
| 1986 | Walter A. McDougall | ... the Heavens and the Earth |
| 1985 | Thomas A. McCraw | Prophets of Regulation |
| 1984 | No Award | |
| 1983 | Rhys L. Isaac | The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 |
| 1982 | C. Van Woodward (ed.) | Mary Chesnut's Civil War |
| 1981 | Lawrence A. Cremin | American Education |
| 1980 | Leon F. Litwak | Been in the Storm So Long |
| 1979 | Don E. Fehrenbacher | The Dred Scott Case |
| 1978 | Alfred D. Chandler Jr. | The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business |
| 1977 | David M. Potter | The Impending Crisis |
| 1976 | Paul Horgan | Lamy of Santa Fe |
| 1975 | Dumas Malone | Jefferson and His Time, Vols I-V |
| 1974 | Daniel J. Boorstin | The Americans: The Democratic Experience |
| 1973 | Michael Kammen | People of Paradox |
| 1972 | Carl N. Degler | Neither Black Nor White |
| 1971 | James MacGregor Burns | Roosevelt, The Soldier of Freedom |
| 1970 | Dean Acheson | Present at the Creation |
| 1969 | Leonard W. Levy | Origins of the Fifth Amendment |
| 1968 | Bernard Bailyn | The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution |
| 1967 | William H. Goetzmann | Exploration and Empire |
| 1966 | Perry Miller | Life of the Mind in America |
| 1965 | Irwin Unger | The Greenback Era |
| 1964 | Sumner Chilton Powell | Puritan Village |
| 1963 | Constance McLaughlin Green | Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 |
| 1962 | Lawrence H. Gipson | The Triumphant Empire: Thunder Clouds in the West |
| 1961 | Herbert Feis | Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference |
| 1960 | Margaret Leech | In the Days of McKinley |
| 1959 | Leonard D. White, Jean Schneider | The Republican Era: 1869-1901 |
| 1958 | Bray Hammond | Banks and Politics in America |
| 1957 | George F. Kennan | Russia Leaves the War: Soviet American Relations, 1917-1920 |
| 1956 | Richard Hofstadter | The Age of Reform |
| 1955 | Paul Horgan: | Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History |
| 1954 | Bruce Catton | A Stillness at Appomattox |
| 1953 | George Dangerfield | The Era of Good feelings |
| 1952 | Oscar Handlin | The Uprooted |
| 1951 | R. Carlyle Buley | The Old Northwest |
| 1950 | Oliver W. Larkin | Art and Life in America |
| 1949 | Roy Franklin Nichols | The Disruption of American Democracy |
| 1948 | Bernard DeVoto | Across the Wide Missouri |
| 1947 | James Phinney Baxter III | Scientists Against Time |
| 1946 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. | The Age of Jackson |
| 1945 | Stephen Bonsal | Unfinished Business |
| 1944 | Merle Curti | The Growth of American Thought |
| 1943 | Esther Forbes | Paul Revere and the World He Lived In |
| 1942 | Margaret Leech | Reveille in Washington |
| 1941 | Marcus Lee Hansen | The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 |
| 1940 | Carl Sandburg | Abraham Lincoln: The War Years |
| 1939 | Frank Luther Mott | A History of American Magazines |
| 1938 | Paul Herman Buck | The Road to Reunion, 1856-1900 |
| 1937 | Van Wyck Brooks | The Flowering of New England |
| 1936 | Andrew C. McLaughlin | The Constitutional History of the United States |
| 1935 | Charles McLean Andrews | The Colonial Period of American History |
| 1934 | Herbert Agar | The People's Choice |
| 1933 | Frederick J. Turner | The Significance of Sections in American History |
| 1932 | John J. Pershing | My Experiences in the World War |
| 1931 | Bernadotte E. Schmitt | The Coming of the War: 1914 |
| 1930 | Claude H. Van Tyne | The War of Independence |
| 1929 | Fred Albert Shannon | The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 |
| 1928 | Vernon Louis Parrington | Main Currents in American Thought |
| 1927 | Samuel Flagg Bemis | Pinckney's Treaty |
| 1926 | Edward Channing | The History of the United States |
| 1925 | Frederic L. Paxson | A History of the American Frontier |
| 1924 | Charles Howard McIlwain | The American Revolution |
| 1923 | Charles Warren | The Supreme Court in United States History |
| 1922 | James Truslow Adams | The Founding of New England |
| 1921 | William Sowden Sims, Burton J. Hendrick | The Victory at Sea |
| 1920 | Justin H. Smith | The War with Mexico |
| 1919 | No award | |
| 1918 | James Ford Rhodes | A History of the Civil War |
| 1917 | J. J. Jusserand | With Americans of Past and Present Days |
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