El Premio Pulitzer de Historia es una categoría establecida desde 1917,[1] que reconoce las mejores obras de literatura histórica sobre los Estados Unidos.
A partir de aquí también se incluyen los finalistas, después del ganador de cada año.
- 2010: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World por Liaquat Ahamed
- Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 por Gordon S. Wood
- Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City por Greg Grandin
- 2011: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery por Eric Foner
- 2012: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention por Manning Marable
- Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 por Anne F. Hyde
- The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden por Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
- Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America por Richard White
- 2013: Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam por Fredrik Logevall
- The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 por Bernard Bailyn
- Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History por John Fabian Witt
- 2014: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 por Alan Taylor (historian)
- A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America por Jacqueline Jones
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety por Eric Schlosser
- 2015: Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People por Elizabeth A. Fenn[2]
- Empire of Cotton: A Global History por Sven Beckert
- An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America por Nick Bunker
- 2016: Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America por T. J. Stiles[3]
- Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War por Brian Matthew Jordan
- Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor por James M. Scott
- The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency por Annie Jacobsen
- 2017: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy por Heather Ann Thompson[4]
- Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It por Larrie D. Ferreiro
- New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America por Wendy Warren
- 2018: The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea por Jack E. Davis[5]
- Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics por Kim Phillips-Fein
- Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America por Steven J. Ross
- 2019: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom por David W. Blight[6]
- 2020: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, por W. Caleb McDaniel[7]
- Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, por Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, por Greg Grandin
Ganadores y finalistas