Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Pulitzer Prize for History Public
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Phil in SF says: 1975 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History (one of five volumes)
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Jefferson the President by Dumas Malone (Jefferson and His Time, #4)
Jefferson the President is the fourth volume in Dumas Malone's multi-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson and His Time. …
Phil in SF says: 1975 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History (one of five volumes)
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Jefferson the President by Dumas Malone (Jefferson and His Time, #5)
Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1909 is the fifth and penultimate volume in Dumas Malone's biography f Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson …
Phil in SF says: 1975 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History (one of five volumes)
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Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
Few figures of nineteenth-century America have appealed more to the modern imagination than Juan Bautista Lamy, first archbishop of Santa …
Phil in SF says: 1976 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Impending Crisis by David M. Potter
IN 1848 the United States concluded the treaty with mexico that ended the Mexican War, acquiring thereby California and the …
Phil in SF says: 1977 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until …
Phil in SF says: 1978 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher
The Dred Scott Case is a masterful examination of the most famous example of judicial failure--the case referred to as …
Phil in SF says: 1979 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
It was one of the most extraordinary events in American history—the deliverance of nearly four million black men and women …
Phil in SF says: 1980 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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American Education by Lawrence A. Cremin
The first volume of Lawrence A. Cremin's monumental work on the history of education in America was described by Choice …
Phil in SF says: 1981 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward, Mary Boykin Chesnut
The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck "always to stumble in on the real …
Phil in SF says: 1982 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Transformation of Virginia by Rhys Isaac
Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth …
Phil in SF says: 1983 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
“There is properly no history, only biography,” Emerson remarked, and in this ingenious book Thomas McCraw unfolds the history of …
Phil in SF says: 1985 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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...the Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall
Chronicles the political history of the space race, from its nineteenth-century beginnings with the rocketry pioneers to the Cold War …
Phil in SF says: 1986 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Voyagers to the West by Bernard Bailyn
The years just before the American Revolution—years in which immigration to the New World from Britain increased dramatically—are the focus …
Phil in SF says: 1987 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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The Launching of Modern American Science by Robert V. Bruce
Looks at the nineteenth century origins of American science, discusses the influence of the Civil War, and describes financial support, …
Phil in SF says: 1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
