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AAS Members Who Have Won A Pulitzer Prize

Prize Categories:
History, Biography or Autobiography, Commentary, Fiction, General Nonfiction, Editorial Writing

History

• 1916   Jean Jules Jusserand, With Americans of Past and Present Days
• 1918   James Ford Rhodes, History of the Civil War
• 1920   Justin H. Smith, The War With Mexico
• 1922   James Truslow Adams,The Founding of New England
• 1923   Charles Warren, The Supreme Court in United States History
• 1926   Edward Channing, A History of the United States
• 1927   Samuel Flagg Bemis, Pickney's Treaty
• 1930   Claude H. Van Tyne, The War of Independence
• 1933   Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of Sections in American History
• 1935   Charles McLean Andrews,The Colonial Period of American History
• 1936   Andrew C. McLaughlin, The Constitutional History of the United States
• 1938   Paul Herman Buck, The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900
• 1939   Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines
• 1943   Esther Forbes, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
• 1944   Merle Curti, The Growth of American Thought
• 1946   Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. , The Age of Jackson
• 1947   James Phinney Baxter 3rd, Scientists Against Time
• 1952   Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted
• 1953   George Dangerfield, The Era of Good Feelings
• 1954   Bruce Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox
• 1955   Paul Horgan, Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
• 1956   Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
• 1962   Lawrence H. Gipson, The Triumphant Empire: Thunderclouds Gather in the West
• 1966   Perry Miller, The Life of the Mind in America
• 1967   William Goetzmann , Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and Scientist in the Winning of the American West
• 1968   Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
• 1969   Leonard W. Levy, Origin of the Fifth Amendment
• 1972   Carl N. Degler, Neither Black Nor White
• 1973   Michael Kammen, People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
• 1974   Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience
• 1975   Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time
• 1976   Paul Horgan, Lamy of Santa Fe
• 1977   Don Fehrenbacher, The Impending Crisis
• 1978   Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
• 1979   Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
• 1980   Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long
• 1981   Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
• 1982   C. Vann Woodward, ed., Mary Chestnut's Civil War
• 1987   Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
• 1989   James M. McPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
• 1991   Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary
• 1993   Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
• 1995   Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II
• 1996   Alan S. Taylor , William Cooper's Town
• 1997   Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
• 2000   Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
• 2005   David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing
• 2007   Eugene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
• 2008   Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
• 2009   Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Biography or Autobiography

• 1919   Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
• 1920   Albert J. Beveridge, The Life of John Marshall
• 1925   M.A. DeWolfe Howe, Barrett Wendell and His Letters
• 1933   Allan Nevins, Grover Cleveland
• 1935   Douglas Southall Freeman, R.E. Lee
• 1937   Allan Nevins, Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration
• 1943   Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea [Columbus]
• 1945   Russel Blaine Nye, George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel
• 1950   Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Foundation of American Foreign Policy
• 1958   Douglas S. Freeman, George Washington
• 1960   Samuel Eliot Morison, John Paul Jones
• 1961   David Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
• 1966   Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. , A Thousand Days
• 1982   William S. McFeely, Grant: A Biography
• 1985   Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
• 1988   David Herbert Donald, Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
• 1993   David McCullough, Truman
• 2002   David McCullough, John Adams

Commentary

• 1978   William Safire, New York Times

Fiction

• 1972   Wallace E. Stegner, Angle of Repose

General Nonfiction

• 1964   Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
• 1965   Howard Mumford Jones, O Strange New World
• 1967   David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
• 1986   Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
• 1993   Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg

Editorial Writing

• 1943   Forrest W. Seymour, Des Moines Register and Tribune