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Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 2020-2024 [3] Year Author Title Result Ref. 2020: W. Caleb McDaniel: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America: Winner [35] [36] [37] Greg Grandin: The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America: Finalist [35] Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Staffs of the Invisible Institute and USG Audio, "for a powerful series that revisits a Chicago hate crime from the 1990s, a fluid amalgam of memoir, community history and journalism." Dan Slepian and Preeti Varathan of NBC News , "for their relentless 20-year investigation that resulted in a wrongfully-convicted man finally receiving clemency."
Night Watch is a 2023 novel by Jayne Anne Phillips which, alongside being longlisted for the National Book Award, won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [3] The novel is historical fiction, set during the American Civil War .
History portal; These books have won the American Pulitzer Prize for History. For biographies of the historians, see Category:Pulitzer Prize for History winners. See also Category:Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography–winning works.
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007. [2] He was elected to the American Antiquarian Society in 2000. [3]
Joseph John-Michael Ellis III (born July 18, 1943) is an American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the Founding Fathers of the United States.His book American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won a National Book Award in 1997 [1] and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History. [2]
Upon earning his PhD, McDaniel accepted an assistant professor of history position at the University of Denver before moving to Rice University. [6] In his early years at Rice, he published Repealing Unions: American Abolitionists, Irish Repeal, and the Origins of Garrisonian Disunionism in the Journal of the Early Republic, which received the 2008 Ralph D. Gray Article Prize.
Margaret Kernochan Leech (November 7, 1893 – February 24, 1974), also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American historian and fiction writer.She won the Pulitzer Prize for History both in 1942 (Reveille in Washington, Harper) (first woman to win for history) and in 1960 (In the Days of McKinley, Harper).