Sunday, March 27, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for History in My Lifetime (so far)
1954: A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
1955: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan
1956: The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 by George F. Kennan
1958: Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond
1959: The Republican Era: 1869–1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider
1960: In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
1961: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis
1962: The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson
1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green
1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell
1965: The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger
1966: The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller
1967: Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann
1968: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy
1970: Present At The Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson
1971: Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns
1972: Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler
1973: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen
1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
1975: Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone
1976: Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
1977: The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 by David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)
1978: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
1979: The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher
1980: Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
1981: American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin
1982: Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward
1983: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 by Rhys L. Isaac
1984: no award given
1985: Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
1986: ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall
1987: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1988: The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 by Robert V. Bruce
1989: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963 by Taylor Branch
1990: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
1991: A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1992: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
1993: The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
1994: no award given
1995: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
1996: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor
1997: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
1998: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
1999: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
2000: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 by David M. Kennedy
2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943 by Rick Atkinson
2004: A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
2005: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
2006: Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
2007: The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
2008: What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
2010: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
1955: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan
1956: The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 by George F. Kennan
1958: Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond
1959: The Republican Era: 1869–1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider
1960: In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
1961: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis
1962: The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson
1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green
1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell
1965: The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger
1966: The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller
1967: Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann
1968: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy
1970: Present At The Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson
1971: Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns
1972: Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler
1973: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen
1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
1975: Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone
1976: Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
1977: The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 by David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)
1978: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
1979: The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher
1980: Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
1981: American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin
1982: Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward
1983: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 by Rhys L. Isaac
1984: no award given
1985: Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
1986: ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall
1987: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1988: The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 by Robert V. Bruce
1989: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963 by Taylor Branch
1990: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
1991: A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1992: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
1993: The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
1994: no award given
1995: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
1996: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor
1997: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
1998: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
1999: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
2000: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 by David M. Kennedy
2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943 by Rick Atkinson
2004: A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
2005: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
2006: Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
2007: The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
2008: What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
2010: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
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