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Pulitzer Prize for History
The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. Many history books have also been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
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Jean Jules Jusserand
Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand (18 February 1855 – 18 July 1932) was a French author and diplomat. He was the French ambassador to the United States during World War I.
Born at Lyon, Jusserand entered the diplomatic service in 1876. Two years...
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James Ford Rhodes
James Ford Rhodes (1 May 1848–22 January 1927), was an American industrialist and historian born in Cleveland, Ohio.
He attended New York University beginning in 1865. He also attended the Collège de France. During his studies in Europe he visited...
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Justin Harvey Smith
Justin Harvey Smith (1857, Boscawen, New Hampshire – 1930, Brooklyn, New York) was an American historian, specialist on the Mexican-American War.
Smith was educated at Dartmouth College (B.A. 1877; M.A. 1881) and Union Theological Seminary (1879...
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William Sims
William Sowden Sims (October 15, 1858 – September 25, 1936) was an admiral in the United States Navy who sought during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to modernize the Navy. During World War I he commanded all United States naval forces...
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James Truslow Adams
James Truslow Adams (October 18, 1878 – May 18, 1949) was an American writer and historian.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Adams took his bachelor's degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1898, and a master's degree from Yale University...
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Charles Warren
Charles Warren (1868, Boston, Massachusetts – August 16, 1954, Washington, D.C.) was a legal scholar, and the author of the book The Supreme Court in United States History (1922), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1923.
He was also a...
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Charles Howard McIlwain
Charles Howard McIlwain (1871-1968) was a highly regarded scholar of Anglo-American constitutional history, and won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for History. Unlike the emerging progressive historians, McIlwain credited constitutional forces more than...
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Frederic L. Paxson
Frederic Logan Paxson (February 23, 1877 in Philadelphia – October 24, 1948 in Berkeley, California) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American historian. He had also been a President of the Organization of American Historians. He had degrees from the...
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Edward Channing
Edward Perkins Channing (born: 15 June 1856, Massachusetts, U.S. - died: 7 January 1931) was an American historian educated at Harvard University, where he was a professor from 1883 to 1929.
His best known work, A History of the United States, is...
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Vernon Louis Parrington
Vernon Louis Parrington (1871–1929) was an American historian and football coach. He graduated from Harvard University in 1893 and in 1897 was hired as instructor of English and modern languages at the University of Oklahoma. During the following...
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Burton J. Hendrick
Burton Jesse Hendrick (1870-1949) born in New Haven, Connecticut. While attending Yale University, Hendrick was editor of both The Yale Courant and The Yale Literary Magazine. He received his BA in 1895 and his master's in 1897 from Yale. After...
Fred Albert Shannon
Fred Albert Shannon (February 12, 1893 – February 4, 1963) was an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He had many publications related to the American history, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Organization and...
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Bernadotte E. Schmitt
Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (May 19, 1886 – March 23, 1969) was an American historian.
He received his Master of Arts from the University of Oxford and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1916 he gained notice with England and Germany...
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John Pershing
General of the Armies John Joseph Pershing, Honorary GCB; September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948, was a general officer in the United States Army. Pershing is the only person to be promoted in his own lifetime to the highest rank ever held in the United...
Frederick Jackson Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 – March 14, 1932) was an American historian in the early 20th century. He is best known for The Significance of the Frontier in American History.
Born in Portage, Wisconsin, the son of Andrew Jackson...
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Herbert Agar
Herbert Sebastian Agar (29 September 1897 in New York - 24 November 1980) was American journalist and an editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for his book The People's Choice, a critical look at the American...
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Charles McLean Andrews
Charles McLean Andrews (February 22, 1863 – September 9, 1943) was one of the most distinguished American historians of his time and widely recognized as a leading authority on American colonial history. He is especially known as a leader of the ...
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Andrew C. McLaughlin
Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (1861 in Beardstown, Illinois – 1947) was an American historian of Scottish immigrant parents. He received his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Michigan. By 1903 he was a respected historian and in 1914...
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Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks (b. Plainfield, New Jersey, February 16, 1886; d. Bridgewater, Connecticut, May 2, 1963) was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian.
Brooks was educated at Harvard University and graduated in 1908. The masterpiece of...
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Paul Herman Buck
Paul Herman Buck (August 25, 1899 – 1978) was an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1938 and became the first Provost of Harvard University in 1945.
Buck was born on August 25, 1899 at Columbus,...
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Frank Luther Mott
Frank Luther Mott (April 4, 1886 Rose Hill Iowa - October 23, 1964 in Columbia, Missouri) was an American historian and journalist of Quaker descent. He taught English at Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa and was the head of the Journalilsm deprtment...
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Esther Forbes
Esther Forbes (June 28, 1891 - August 12, 1967) was an American novelist and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal.
Forbes was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, the fifth of six children born to Harriette...
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Merle Curti
Merle Eugene Curti (15 September 1897–9 March 1996 ) was a leading American historian. His specialty was social and intellectual history. He founded three academic disciplines—peace studies, intellectual history and social history—and helped create...
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Stephen Bonsal
Stephen Bonsal (March 29, 1865 – June 8, 1951) was an American historian, essayist, diplomat and translator.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Bonsal was an international correspondent of the New York Herald (1885-1907), and the New York Times (1910-1911...
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James Phinney Baxter III
James Phinney Baxter III (February 15, 1893-June 17, 1975) was an American historian, educator and academic. He won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for history, for his book Scientists Against Time He was also the author of "The Introduction of the Ironclad...
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Bernard DeVoto
Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 - November 13, 1955) was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West.
He was born in Ogden, Utah. He attended the University of Utah for one year, and then...
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Roy Franklin Nichols
Roy Franklin Nichols (March 3, 1896 – January 12, 1973) was an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Disruption of American Democracy.
Nichols was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Franklin...
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Oliver Waterman Larkin
Oliver Waterman Larkin (August 17, 1896, Medford, Massachusetts – December 17, 1970) was an American art historian and educator. He won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Art and Life in America.
Larkin was the son of Charles Ernest...
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Samuel Flagg Bemis
Samuel Flagg Bemis (October 20, 1891 in Worcester, Massachusetts – 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and biographer. He was also a former President of the American Historical Association and a specialist in American diplomatic history....
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg ...
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R. Carlyle Buley
Roscoe Carlyle Buley was born in Georgetown, Indiana, on July 8, 1893. The son of David M. Buley -- a Hoosier school teacher -- and Nora (Keithley) Buley, he graduated Vincennes (Indiana) High School in 1910. He received his B.A. from Indiana...
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Oscar Handlin
Oscar Handlin (born September 29, 1915, Brooklyn) is an American historian.
Handlin was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. In 1934, Handlin graduated at Brooklyn College and received a M.A. from Harvard University one year later. Between 1936 and...
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George Dangerfield
George Dangerfield (October 28, 1904 – December 26, 1986) was a journalist, an author, and the literary editor of Vanity Fair from 1933 to 1935.
Dangerfield was born in Newbury, Berkshire in England and educated at Forest School, Walthamstow (then...
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Bruce Catton
Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978) was an American journalist and notable historian of the American Civil War. He won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox, his study of the final campaign of the...
Bray Hammond
Bray Hammond (1886 — 1968) was an American author and assistant secretary of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System between the years of 1944 and 1950.
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Leonard D. White
Leonard Dupee White (17 January 1891 - 23 February 1958) was a historian of the field of public administration in the United States. His technique was to study administration in the context of grouped U.S. presidential periods. An important founder...
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Margaret Leech
Margaret Kernochan Leech (November 7, 1893 – February 24, 1974) also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American author and historian, who won two Pulitzer Prizes in history, for her books Reveille in Washington (1942) and In the Days of McKinley ...
Herbert Feis
Herbert Feis (born in 1893 in New York, died in 1972) was an American Author and former Economic Advisor for International Affairs to the Department of State in the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations.
Feis was the Author of some 13 books and won...
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Lawrence H. Gipson
Lawrence Henry Gipson (1880–September 26, 1971) was a U.S. historian, who won the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for History. He is best known as a leader of the "Imperial school" of historians who studied, and generally praised the...
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Constance McLaughlin Green
Constance McLaughlin Winsor Green (August 21, 1897 – 1978) was an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History for Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878.
Green was born at Ann Arbor, Michigan. She...
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Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter (6 August 1916 – 24 October 1970) was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, an historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. In the course of his career, Hofstadter became the “iconic...
Irwin Unger
Irwin Unger (b. 1927, Brooklyn, New York) is an American historian and academic specializing in economic history, the history of the 1960s, and the history of the Gilded Age. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1958 and is currently...
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Perry Miller
Perry G. Miller (February 25, 1905, Chicago USA - December 9, 1963) was an American intellectual historian and Harvard University professor. He was an authority on American Puritanism. Alfred Kazin referred to him as "the master of American...
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William H. Goetzmann
William H. Goetzmann (born 1931) is an award-winning historian and emeritus professor in the American Studies and American Civilization Programs at the University of Texas at Austin. He attended Yale University as a graduate student and was friends...
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George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard...
Leonard Levy
Leonard W. Levy (April 9, 1923 – August 24, 2006) was the Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor of Humanities and Chairman of the Graduate Faculty of History at Claremont Graduate School, California. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
He...
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Dean Acheson
Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman during 1949–1953, he played a central role in defining American...
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James MacGregor Burns
James MacGregor Burns (born August 3, 1918) is a presidential biographer, authority on Leadership Studies, Woodrow Wilson Professor (emeritus) of Political Science at Williams College, where he also received his B.A. He is also a scholar at the...
Carl N. Degler
Carl Neumann Degler (born 6 Feb 1921 in Orange, N.J.) is an American historian. Degler is a past president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association. He is the Margaret...
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Michael Kammen
Michael Kammen is a professor of American cultural history in the Department of History at Cornell University. He was born in 1936 in Rochester, New York, grew up in the Washington, DC area, and was educated at the George Washington University and...
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Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.
Boorstin was born in 1914 in Atlanta,...
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Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn (b. 1922, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History...
Dumas Malone
Dumas Malone (January 10, 1892 – December 27, 1986) was an American author, born at Coldwater, Mississippi, USA. He received his bachelor's degree in 1910 from Emory College (Emory University) and in 1916 he received his divinity degree from Yale...
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Paul Horgan
Paul Horgan (born Buffalo, New York, 1903 - died Middletown, Connecticut, 1995) was an American author of fiction and non-fiction, most of which was set in the Southwestern United States. Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1903, he moved to Albuquerque,...
David M. Potter
David M. Potter (6 December 1910 – 18 February 1971) was an American historian of the South. He was born in Augusta, Georgia, and graduated from Emory University in 1932. At Yale he worked with Ulrich Bonnell Phillips. His earned his Ph.D. in 1940...
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Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. (September 15, 1918 – May 9, 2007) was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. Chandler graduated from...
