Pulitzer Prize for History — Complete Winners List

16 years of winners · Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University · Since 1917 · ← Back to award page


2025	Native Nations: A Millennium in North America	Kathleen DuVal	Random House
2024	No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era	Jacqueline Jones	Basic Books
2023	Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power	Jefferson Cowie	Basic Books
2022	Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America	Nicole Eustace	Liveright Publishing
2021	Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America	Marcia Chatelain	Liveright Publishing
2020	Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America	W. Caleb McDaniel	Oxford University Press
2019	Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom	David W. Blight	Simon & Schuster
2018	The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea	Jack E. Davis	Liveright Publishing
2017	Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy	Heather Ann Thompson	Pantheon Books
2016	Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America	T.J. Stiles	Alfred A. Knopf
2015	Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People	Elizabeth Fenn	Hill and Wang
2014	The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832	Alan Taylor	W. W. Norton & Company
2013	Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam	Fredrik Logevall	Random House
2012	Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention	Manning Marable	Viking
2011	The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery	Eric Foner	W. W. Norton & Company
2010	Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World	Liaquat Ahamed	Penguin Press