AAS Members Who Have Won A Pulitzer Prize
Members —who currently number over one thousand individuals—are elected by their colleagues in recognition of their eminent works of scholarship, artistic endeavors, or public engagement in pre-twentieth-century American history and culture.
History
- 2024 Jacqueline Jones, No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
- 2019 David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
- 2014 Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
- 2011 Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
- 2009 Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
- 2008 Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
- 2007 Eugene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
- 2005 David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing
- 2000 Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
- 1997 Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
- 1996 Alan S. Taylor, William Cooper's Town
- 1995 Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II
- 1993 Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
- 1991 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary
- 1989 James M. McPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
- 1987 Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
- 1982 C. Vann Woodward, ed., Mary Chestnut's Civil War
- 1981 Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
- 1980 Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long
- 1979 Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
- 1978 Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
- 1977 Don Fehrenbacher, The Impending Crisis
- 1976 Paul Horgan, Lamy of Santa Fe
- 1975 Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time
- 1974 Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience
- 1973 Michael Kammen, People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
- 1969 Leonard W. Levy, Origin of the Fifth Amendment1972 Carl N. Degler, Neither Black Nor White
- 1968 Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
- 1967 William Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and Scientist in the Winning of the American West
- 1966 Perry Miller, The Life of the Mind in America
- 1962 Lawrence H. Gipson, The Triumphant Empire: Thunderclouds Gather in the West
- 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
- 1947 James Phinney Baxter 3rd, Scientists Against Time
- 1946 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. , The Age of Jackson
- 1944 Merle Curti, The Growth of American Thought
- 1943 Esther Forbes, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
- 1939 Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines
- 1938 Paul Herman Buck, The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900
- 1936 Andrew C. McLaughlin, The Constitutional History of the United States
- 1935 Charles McLean Andrews, The Colonial Period of American History
- 1933 Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of Sections in American History
- 1930 Claude H. Van Tyne, The War of Independence
- 1927 Samuel Flagg Bemis, Pickney's Treaty
- 1926 Edward Channing, A History of the United States
- 1923 Charles Warren, The Supreme Court in United States History
- 1922 James Truslow Adams, The Founding of New England
- 1920 Justin H. Smith, The War With Mexico
- 1918 James Ford Rhodes, History of the Civil War
1916 Jean Jules Jusserand, With Americans of Past and Present Days
Biography or Autobiography
- 2024 Ilyon Woo, Master Slave Husband Wife
- 2014 Megan Marshall, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
- 2002 David McCullough, John Adams
- 1993 David McCullough, Truman
- 1988 David Herbert Donald, Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
- 1985 Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
- 1982 William S. McFeely, Grant: A Biography
- 1966 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. , A Thousand Days
- 1961 David Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
- 1960 Samuel Eliot Morison, John Paul Jones
- 1958 Douglas Southall Freeman, George Washington
- 1950 Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Foundation of American Foreign Policy
- 1945 Russel Blaine Nye, George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel
- 1943 Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea [Columbus]
- 1937 Allan Nevins, Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration
- 1935 Douglas Southall Freeman, R.E. Lee
- 1933 Allan Nevins, Grover Cleveland
- 1925 M.A. DeWolfe Howe, Barrett Wendell and His Letters
- 1920 Albert J. Beveridge, The Life of John Marshall
- 1919 Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Commentary
- 1978 William Safire, New York Times
Fiction
- 1972 Wallace E. Stegner, Angle of Repose
General Nonfiction
- 1993 Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg
- 1986 Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
- 1967 David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
- 1965 Howard Mumford Jones, O Strange New World
- 1964 Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Editorial Writing
- 1943 Forrest W. Seymour, Des Moines Register and Tribune