Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff 1917 With Americans of Past and Present Days, J. J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to United States 1918 A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865, James Ford Rhodes 1920 The War With Mexico, Justin H. Smith 1921 The Victory at Sea, William Sowden Sims, in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick 1922 The Founding of New England, James Truslow Adams 1923 The Supreme Court in United States History, Charles Warren 1924 The American Revolution—A Constitutional Interpretation, Charles Howard McIlwain 1925 A History of the American Frontier, Frederic L. Paxson 1926 The History of the United States, Edward Channing 1927 Pinckney's Treaty, Samuel Flagg Bemis 1928 Main Currents in American Thought, Vernon Louis Parrington 1929 The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865, Fred Albert Shannon 1930 The War of Independence, Claude H. Van Tyne 1931 The Coming of the War: 1914, Bernadotte E. Schmitt 1932 My Experiences in the World War, John J. Pershing 1933 The Significance of Sections in American History, Frederick J. Turner 1934 The People's Choice, Herbert Agar 1935 The Colonial Period of American History, Charles McLean Andrews 1936 The Constitutional History of the United States, Andrew C. McLaughlin 1937 The Flowering of New England, Van Wyck Brooks 1938 The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900, Paul Herman Buck 1939 A History of American Magazines, Frank Luther Mott 1940 Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Carl Sandburg 1941 The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860, Marcus Lee Hansen 1942 Reveille in Washington, Margaret Leech 1943 Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, Esther Forbes 1944 The Growth of American Thought, Merle Curti 1945 Unfinished Business, Stephen Bonsal 1946 The Age of Jackson, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 1947 Scientists Against Time, James Phinney Baxter, 3rd 1948 Across the Wide Missouri, Bernard DeVoto 1949 The Disruption of American Democracy, Roy Franklin Nichols 1950 Art and Life in America, Oliver W. Larkin 1951 The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840, R. Carlyle Buley 1952 The Uprooted, Oscar Handlin 1953 The Era of Good Feelings, George Dangerfield 1954 A Stillness at Appomattox, Bruce Catton 1955 Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History, Paul Horgan 1956 The Age of Reform, Richard Hofstadter 1957 Russia Leaves the War: Soviet–American Relations, 1917–1920, George F. Kennan 1958 Banks and Politics in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, Bray Hammond 1959 The Republican Era: 1869–1901, Leonard D. White, assisted by Jean Schneider 1960 In the Days of McKinley, Margaret Leech 1961 Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference, Herbert Feis 1962 The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, Lawrence H. Gipson 1963 Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878, Constance McLaughlin Green 1964 Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, Sumner Chilton Powell 1965 The Greenback Era, Irwin Unger 1966 Life of the Mind in America, Perry Miller 1967 Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and Scientist in the Winning of the American West, William H. Goetzmann 1968 The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn 1969 Origins of the Fifth Amendment, Leonard W. Levy 1970 Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department, Dean Acheson 1971 Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, James McGregor Burns 1972 Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States, Carl N. Degler 1973 People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origin of American Civilization, Michael Kammen 1974 The Americans: The Democratic Experience, Vol. 3, Daniel J. Boorstin 1975 Jefferson and His Time, Dumas Malone 1976 Lamy of Santa Fe, Paul Horgan 1977 The Impending Crisis: 1841–1861, David M. Potter 1978 The Invisible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. 1979 The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in Law and Politics, Don E. Fehrenbacher 1980 Been in the Storm So Long, Leon F. Litwack 1981 American Education: The National Experience; 1783–1876, Lawrence A. Cremin 1982 Mary Chesnut's Civil War, C. Vann Woodward, editor 1983 The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790, Rhys L. Isaac 1985 The Prophets of Regulation, Thomas K. McCraw 1986 The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age, Walter A. McDougall 1987 Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution, Bernard Bailyn 1988 The Launching of Modern American Science 1846–1876, Robert V. Bruce 1989 Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch; Battle Cry of Freedom, James M. McPherson 1990 In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines, Stanley Karnow 1991 A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785–1812, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1992 The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, Mark E. Neely, Jr. 1993 The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon S. Wood 1995 No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Doris Kearns Goodwin 1996 William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, Alan Taylor 1997 Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Jack N. Rakove 1998 Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, Edward J. Larson 1999 Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace 2000 Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945, David M. Kennedy 2001 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, Joseph J. Ellis 2002 The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, Louis Menand 2003 An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943, Rick Atkinson 2004 A Nation Under Our Feet, Steven Hahn 2005 Washington's Crossing, David Hackett Fischer 2006 Polio: An American Story, David M. Oshinsky 2007 The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Pulitzer Prizes in Letters Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography .com/ipa/0/1/5/4/4/2/A0154423.html Sources Our Common Sources