Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Pulitzer Prize for History Public
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Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years …
Phil in SF says: 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Hailed as a "nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond’s best-seller 'Collapse,' and Simon Winchester’s 'Atlantic'" …
Phil in SF says: 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who …
Phil in SF says: 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel
The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati …
Phil in SF says: 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators …
Phil in SF says: 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous …
Phil in SF says: 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace
An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching implications for the definition of justice …
Phil in SF says: 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Freedom's Dominion by Jefferson Cowie
A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the …
Phil in SF says: 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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No Right to an Honest Living by Jacqueline Jones
From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston
Impassioned antislavery rhetoric …
Phil in SF says: 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal
Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways …
Phil in SF says: 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
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Combee by Edda L. Fields-Black
The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written …
Phil in SF says: 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
