Premio Pulitzer de Historia

• 1917: With Americans of Past and Present Days por Jean Jules Jusserand
• 1918: A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 por James Ford Rhodes
• 1919: no hubo entrega

• 1920: The War with Mexico por Justin H. Smith
• 1921: The Victory at Sea por William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick
• 1922: The Founding of New England por James Truslow Adams
• 1923: The Supreme Court in United States History por Charles Warren
• 1924: The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation por Charles Howard McIlwain
• 1925: History of the American Frontier por Frederic L. Paxson
• 1926: A History of the United States por Edward Channing
• 1927: Pinckney's Treaty por Samuel Flagg Bemis
• 1928: Main Currents in American Thought por Vernon Louis Parrington
• 1929: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 por Fred Albert Shannon

• 1930: The War of Independence por Claude H. Van Tyne
• 1931: The Coming of the War, 1914 por Bernadotte E. Schmitt
• 1932: My Experiences in the World War por John J. Pershing
• 1933: The Significance of Sections in American History por Frederick J. Turner
• 1934: The People's Choice por Herbert Agar
• 1935: The Colonial Period of American History por Charles McLean Andrews
• 1936: A Constitutional History of the United States por Andrew C. McLaughlin
• 1937: The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 por Van Wyck Brooks
• 1938: The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 por Paul Herman Buck
• 1939: A History of American Magazines por Frank Luther Mott

• 1940: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years por Carl Sandburg
• 1941: The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 por Marcus Lee Hansen
• 1942: Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 por Margaret Leech
• 1943: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In por Esther Forbes
• 1944: The Growth of American Thought por Merle Curti
• 1945: Unfinished Business por Stephen Bonsal
• 1946: The Age of Jackson por Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• 1947: Scientists Against Time por James Phinney Baxter III
• 1948: Across the Wide Missouri por Bernard DeVoto
• 1949: The Disruption of American Democracy por Roy Franklin Nichols

• 1950: Art and Life in America por Oliver W. Larkin
• 1951: The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840 por R. Carlyle Buley
• 1952: The Uprooted por Oscar Handlin
• 1953: The Era of Good Feelings por George Dangerfield
• 1954: A Stillness at Appomattox por Bruce Catton
• 1955: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History por Paul Horgan
• 1956: The Age of Reform por Richard Hofstadter
• 1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 por George F. Kennan
• 1958: Banks and Politics in America por Bray Hammond
• 1959: The Republican Era: 1869–1901 por Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider

• 1960: In the Days of McKinley por Margaret Leech
• 1961: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference por Herbert Feis
• 1962: The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 por Lawrence H. Gipson
• 1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 por Constance McLaughlin Green
• 1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town por Sumner Chilton Powell
• 1965: The Greenback Era por Irwin Unger
• 1966: The Life of the Mind in America por Perry Miller
• 1967: Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West por William H. Goetzmann
• 1968: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution por Bernard Bailyn
• 1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment por Leonard W. Levy

• 1970: Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department por Dean Acheson
• 1971: Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom por James MacGregor Burns
• 1972: Neither Black nor White por Carl N. Degler
• 1973: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization por Michael Kammen
• 1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience por Daniel J. Boorstin
• 1975: Jefferson and His Time por Dumas Malone
• 1976: Lamy of Santa Fe por Paul Horgan
• 1977: The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 por David M. Potter (Completed and edited por Don E. Fehrenbacher)
• 1978: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business por Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
• 1979: The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics por Don E. Fehrenbacher

A partir de aquí también se incluyen los finalistas, después del ganador de cada año.

• 1980: Been in the Storm So Long por Leon F. Litwack
  • The Plains Across por John B. Unruh
  • The Urban Crucible por Gary B. Nash
• 1981: American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 por Lawrence A. Cremin
  • A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England por Lyle Koehler
  • Over Here: The First World War and American Society por David M. Kennedy
• 1982: Mary Chesnut's Civil War por C. Vann Woodward
  • Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945 por Akira Iriye
  • White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History por George M. Fredrickson
• 1983: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 por Rhys L. Isaac
  • Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South por Bertram Wyatt-Brown
  • The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 por Robert Middlekauff
• 1984: no award given
• 1985: Prophets of Regulation por Thomas K. McCraw
  • The Crucible of Race por Joel Williamson
  • The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians por Francis Paul Prucha
• 1986: ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age por Walter A. McDougall
  • Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America por Kerby A. Miller
  • Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present por Jacqueline Jones
  • Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution por Forrest McDonald
• 1987: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution por Bernard Bailyn
  • Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference por David Garrow
  • Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945 por David Eisenhower
• 1988: The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 por Robert V. Bruce
  • The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System por Charles E. Rosenberg
  • The Fall of the House of Labor por David Montgomery
• 1989: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era por James M. McPherson
• 1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963 por Taylor Branch
  • A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam por Neil Sheehan
  • Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 por Eric Foner

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

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

• 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
  • Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South por Stephanie McCurry
  • Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston por Michael J. Rawson
• 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]
  • American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic por Victoria Johnson
  • Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition por W. Fitzhugh Brundage
• 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