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Il premio Pulitzer per la storia (Pulitzer Prize for History) è un premio letterario assegnato annualmente dal 1917 nella categoria di arti e lettere, a un'opera che tratti in preferenza della storia statunitense^[1]. Tra le varie categorie in cui il Pulitzer viene assegnato, è uno dei premi originari^[2]. Dal 1980 vengono annunciati anche i finalisti.

Albo d'oro

Il premio non è stato assegnato nel 1919, 1984 e 1994; assegnato due volte nel 1989. I vincitori sono indicati in grassetto, a seguire i finalisti^[3].

Anni 1980-1989

1980: Been in the Storm So Long di Leon F. Litwack
- The Plains Across di John B. Unruh
- The Urban Crucible di Gary B. Nash
1981: American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 di Lawrence A. Cremin
- A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England di Lyle Koehler
- Over Here: The First World War and American Society di David M. Kennedy
1982: Mary Chesnut's Civil War di C. Vann Woodward
- Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945 di Akira Iriye
- White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History di George M. Fredrickson
1983: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 di Rhys L. Isaac
- Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South di Bertram Wyatt-Brown
- The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 di Robert Middlekauff
1984: non assegnato
1985: Prophets of Regulation di Thomas K. McCraw
- The Crucible of Race di Joel Williamson
- The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians di Francis Paul Prucha
1986: ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age di Walter A. McDougall
- Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America di Kerby A. Miller
- Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present di Jacqueline Jones
- Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution di Forrest McDonald
1987: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution di Bernard Bailyn
- Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference di David Garrow
- Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945 di David Eisenhower
1988: The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 di Robert V. Bruce
- The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System di Charles E. Rosenberg
- The Fall of the House of Labor di David Montgomery
1989: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era di James M. McPherson
1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963 di Taylor Branch
- Vietnam. Una sporca bugia (A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam) di Neil Sheehan
- Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 di Eric Foner

Anni 1990-1999

1990: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines di Stanley Karnow
- American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870–1970 di Thomas P. Hughes
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I di Hugh Honour
1991: A Midwife's Tale di Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink di Kenneth M. Stampp
- Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 di Lizabeth Cohen
- The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy di Hugh David Graham
1992: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties di Mark E. Neely, Jr.
- A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs di Theodore Draper
- Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West di William Cronon
- Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century di John Frederick Martin
- The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 di Richard White
1993: The Radicalism of the American Revolution di Gordon S. Wood
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America di Garry Wills
- The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction di Edward L. Ayers
1994: non assegnato
- Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK di Gerald Posner
- Crime and Punishment in American History di Lawrence M. Friedman
- William Faulkner and Southern History di Joel Williamson
1995: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II di Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Lincoln in American Memory di Merrill D. Peterson
- Stories of Scottsboro di James Goodman
1996: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic di Alan Taylor
- Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb di Richard Rhodes
- The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic di Lance Banning
1997: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution di Jack N. Rakove
- Founding Mothers and Fathers di Mary Beth Norton
- The Battle for Christmas di Stephen Nissenbaum
1998: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion di Edward J. Larson
- Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America di J. Anthony Lukas
- Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History di Rogers Smith
1999: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 di Edwin G. Burrows e Mike Wallace
- In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival di Paula Mitchell Marks
- The New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age di William E. Burrows

Anni 2000-2009

2000: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 di David M. Kennedy
- The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America di Kevin Phillips
- Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier di James H. Merrell
2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation di Joseph J. Ellis
- The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States di Alexander Keyssar
- Way Out There in the Blue di Frances FitzGerald
2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America di Louis Menand
- Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation di J. William Harris
- Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America di Daniel K. Richter
2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943 di Rick Atkinson
- At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America di Philip Dray
- Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America di Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
2004: A Nation Under Our Feet di Steven Hahn
- Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center di Daniel Okrent
- They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 di David Maraniss
2005: Washington's Crossing di David Hackett Fischer
- Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age di Kevin Boyle
- Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2 di Michael O'Brien
2006: Polio: An American Story di David Oshinsky
- New York Burning di Jill Lepore
- The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln di Sean Wilentz
2007: The Race Beat di Gene Roberts e Hank Klibanoff
- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War di Nathaniel Philbrick
- Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 di James T. Campbell
2008: What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848 di Daniel Walker Howe
- The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War di David Halberstam
- Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power di Robert Dallek
2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family di Annette Gordon-Reed
- The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s di G. Calvin Mackenzie e Robert Weisbrot
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War di Drew Gilpin Faust

Anni 2010-2019

2010: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World di Liaquat Ahamed
- Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 di Gordon S. Wood
- Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City di Greg Grandin
2011: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery di Eric Foner
- Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South di Stephanie McCurry
- Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston di Michael J. Rawson
2012: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention di Manning Marable
- Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 di Anne F. Hyde
- The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden di Anthony Summers e Robbyn Swan
- Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America di Richard White
2013: Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam di Fredrik Logevall
- The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 di Bernard Bailyn
- Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History di John Fabian Witt
2014: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 di Alan Taylor
- A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America di Jacqueline Jones
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety di Eric Schlosser
2015: Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People di Elizabeth A. Fenn
- An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America, di Nick Bunker
- Empire of Cotton: A Global History, di Sven Beckert
2016: Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America di T.J. Stiles
- Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, di Brian Matthew Jordan
- Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor, di James M. Scott
- The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency, di Annie Jacobsen
2017: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy di Heather Ann Thompson
- Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It, di Larrie D. Ferreiro
- New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America, di Wendy Warren
2018: The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea di Jack E. Davis
- Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics di Kim Phillips-Fein
- Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America di Steven J. Ross
2019: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom di David W. Blight
- American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic di Victoria Johnson
- Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition di W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Anni 2020-2029

2020: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America di W. Caleb McDaniel
- Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership di Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- The End of the Myth: From the Border Wall in the Mind of America di Greg Grandin
2021: Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America di Marcia Chatelain
- The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America di Eric Cervini
- The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West di Megan Kate Nelson
2022^[4]: Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America di Nicole Eustace ex aequo Cuba: An American History di Ada Ferrer
- Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction di Kate Masur
2023^[5]: Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power di Jefferson Cowie
- Watergate: A New History di Garrett Graff
- Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America di Michael John Witten
2024^[6]: No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era di Jacqueline Jones
- American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century di Michael Willrich
- Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion di Elliott West

Note

^ (EN) Premio Pulitzer - Sito ufficiale, su pulitzer.org.
^ (EN) The Pulitzer Prize. 1917 Winners, su pulitzer.org.
^ (EN) The Pulitzer Prizes - History, su pulitzer.org.
^ Severino Colombo, Premio Pulitzer 2022, premiati Joshua Cohen e i giornalisti ucraini, su corriere.it, 9 maggio 2022. URL consultato il 10 maggio 2022.
^ (EN) Neda Ulaby e Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, Here are the winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prizes, su npr.org, 8 maggio 2023. URL consultato il 10 maggio 2023.
^ (EN) Hillel Italie, Jayne Anne Phillips’ novel ‘Night Watch,’ Eboni Booth’s drama ‘Primary Trust’ among Pulitzer winners, su apnews.com, 7 maggio 2024. URL consultato l'8 maggio 2024.

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(EN) Sito ufficiale, su pulitzer.org.

Portale Letteratura

Portale Premi letterari

[1] (EN) Premio Pulitzer - Sito ufficiale, su pulitzer.org.

[2] (EN) The Pulitzer Prize. 1917 Winners, su pulitzer.org.

[3] (EN) The Pulitzer Prizes - History, su pulitzer.org.

[4] Severino Colombo, Premio Pulitzer 2022, premiati Joshua Cohen e i giornalisti ucraini, su corriere.it, 9 maggio 2022. URL consultato il 10 maggio 2022.

[5] (EN) Neda Ulaby e Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, Here are the winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prizes, su npr.org, 8 maggio 2023. URL consultato il 10 maggio 2023.

[6] (EN) Hillel Italie, Jayne Anne Phillips’ novel ‘Night Watch,’ Eboni Booth’s drama ‘Primary Trust’ among Pulitzer winners, su apnews.com, 7 maggio 2024. URL consultato l'8 maggio 2024.

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V · D · M Vincitori del premio Pulitzer per la storia
1917–1925	Jean Jules Jusserand (1917) • James Ford Rhodes (1918) • Justin Harvey Smith (1920) • William Sowden Sims e Burton Jesse Hendrick (1921) • James Truslow Adams (1922) • Charles Warren (1923) • Charles Howard McIlwain (1924) • Frederic L. Paxson (1925)
1926–1950	Edward Channing (1926) • Samuel Flagg Bemis (1927) • Vernon Louis Parrington (1928) • Fred Albert Shannon (1929) • Claude Halstead Van Tyne (1930) • Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (1931) • John Pershing (1932) • Frederick Jackson Turner (1933) • Herbert Agar (1934) • Charles McLean Andrews (1935) • Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (1936) • Van Wyck Brooks (1937) • Paul Herman Buck (1938) • Frank Luther Mott (1939) • Carl Sandburg (1940) • Marcus Lee Hansen (1941) • Margaret Leech (1942) • Esther Forbes (1943) • Merle Curti (1944) • Stephen Bonsal (1945) • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1946) • James Phinney Baxter III (1947) • Bernard DeVoto (1948) • Roy Franklin Nichols (1949) • Oliver Waterman Larkin (1950)
1951–1975	Roscoe Carlyle Buley (1951) • Oscar Handlin (1952) • George Dangerfield (1953) • Bruce Catton (1954) • Paul Horgan (1955) • Richard Hofstadter (1956) • George Frost Kennan (1957) • Bray Hammond (1958) • Leonard Dupee White e Jean Schneider (1959) • Margaret Leech (1960) • Herbert Feis (1961) • Lawrence Henry Gipson (1962) • Constance McLaughlin Green (1963) • Sumner Chilton Powell (1964) • Irwin Unger (1965) • Perry Miller (1966) • William Goetzmann (1967) • Bernard Bailyn (1968) • Leonard Levy (1969) • Dean Acheson (1970) • James MacGregor Burns (1971) • Carl Degler (1972) • Michael Kammen (1973) • Daniel J. Boorstin (1974) • Dumas Malone (1975)
1976–2000	Paul Horgan (1976) • David Morris Potter (1977) • Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1978) • Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1979) • Leon Litwack (1980) • Lawrence A. Cremin (1981) • C. Vann Woodward (1982) • Rhys Isaac (1983) • Thomas K. McCraw (1985) • Walter A. McDougall (1986) • Bernard Bailyn (1987) • Robert Bruce (1988) • James M. McPherson e Taylor Branch (1989) • Stanley Karnow (1990) • Laurel Ulrich (1991) • Mark Neely, Jr. (1992) • Gordon Wood (1993) • Doris Goodwin (1995) • Alan Taylor (1996) • Jack Rakove (1997) • Edward Larson (1998) • Edwin Burrows e Mike Wallace (1999) • David Kennedy (2000)
2001–2025	Joseph Ellis (2001) • Louis Menand (2002) • Rick Atkinson (2003) • Steven Hahn (2004) • David Fischer (2005) • David Oshinsky (2006) • Gene Roberts e Hank Klibanoff (2007) • Daniel Howe (2008) • Annette Gordon-Reed (2009) • Liaquat Ahamed (2010) • Eric Foner (2011) • Manning Marable (2012) • Fredrik Logevall (2013) • Alan Taylor (2014) • Elizabeth A. Fenn (2015) • T.J. Stiles (2016) • Heather Ann Thompson (2017) • Jack E. Davis (2018) • David W. Blight (2019) • W. Caleb McDaniel (2020) • Marcia Chatelain (2021) • Nicole Eustace e Ada Ferrer (2022) • Jefferson Cowie (2023) • Jacqueline Jones (2024)

Premio Pulitzer per la storia

Albo d'oro

Anni 1917-1919

Anni 1920-1929

Anni 1930-1939

Anni 1940-1949

Anni 1950-1959

Anni 1960-1969

Anni 1970-1979