The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition.... for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. Many history books have also been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction has been awarded since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category.... and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author....
The only person to win the Pulitzer Prize for History twice has been Margaret Leech
Margaret Leech
Margaret Kernochan Leech also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American author and historian, who won two Pulitzer Prizes in Pulitzer Prize for History, for her books Reveille in Washington and In the Days of McKinley .... , for Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 in 1941
1941 in literature
The year 1941 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... and In the Days of McKinley in 1960
1960 in literature
The year 1960 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... .
The year 1917 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand
Jean Jules Jusserand
Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand was a France author and Diplomacy. He was the French ambassador to the United States during World War I.Born at Lyon, Jusserand entered the diplomatic service in 1876....
The year 1920 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith
Justin Harvey Smith
Justin Harvey Smith was an United States historian, specialist on the Mexican-American War.Smith was educated at Dartmouth College and Union Theological Seminary ....
The year 1921 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick
Burton J. Hendrick
Burton Jesse Hendrick born in New Haven, Connecticut. While attending Yale University, Hendrick was editor of both The Yale Courant and The Yale Literary Magazine....
The year 1922 in literature involved some significant events and new books.Under the current United States copyright law, all works published before January 1, 1923 with a proper copyright notice entered the public domain no later than 75 years from the date of the copyright.... :The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams
James Truslow Adams
James Truslow Adams was an United States writer and historian.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Adams took his bachelor's degree from the Polytechnic University of New York in 1898, and a master's degree from Yale University in 1900....
The year 1923 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren
Charles Warren (U.S. author)
Charles Warren was a legal scholar, and the author of the book The Supreme Court in United States History , which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1923....
The year 1924 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain
Charles Howard McIlwain
Charles Howard McIlwain was a highly regarded scholar of Anglo-American constitutional history, and won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for History. Unlike the emerging progressive historians, McIlwain credited constitutional forces more than economics as a motive for the American Revolution....
The year 1926 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :A History of the United States by Edward Channing
Edward Channing
Edward Perkins Channing was an American historian educated at Harvard University, where he was a professor from 1883 to 1929.His best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American history and received the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History....
The year 1927 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Pinckney's Treaty
Pinckney's Treaty
Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain.... by Samuel Flagg Bemis
Samuel Flagg Bemis
Samuel Flagg Bemis was a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and biographer. He was also a former President of the American Historical Association and a specialist in American diplomatic history....
The year 1928 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington
Vernon Louis Parrington
Vernon Louis Parrington was an American historian and football coach. He graduated from Harvard University in 1893 and in 1897 was hired as instructor of English and modern languages at the University of Oklahoma....
The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865
The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 is a two-volume book by American historian Fred Albert Shannon. The book is about Union Army history, including recruitment and enlistment during the American Civil War.... by Fred Albert Shannon
Fred Albert Shannon
Fred Albert Shannon was an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He had many publications related to the American history, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865....
The year 1932 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing
John J. Pershing
John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing, Order of the Bath was an officer in the United States Army. He is the only person to be promoted in his own lifetime to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army?General of the Armies....
The year 1933 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner was an American historian in the early 20th century. He is best known for The Significance of the Frontier in American History....
The year 1934 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The People's Choice
The People's Choice
The People's Choice may refer to:*The People's Choice , a minor British political party*The People's Choice , a 1950s sitcom*The People's Choice , an 2004 compilation album by Canadian rock band NoMeansNo... by Herbert Agar
Herbert Agar
Herbert Sebastian Agar was United States journalist and an editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for his book The People's Choice, a critical look at the American presidency....
The year 1935 in literature involved some significant events and new books.Events*Penguin Books publishes the first "paperback" book.*W.... :The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews
Charles McLean Andrews
Charles McLean Andrews was one of the most distinguished United States historians of his time and widely recognized as a leading authority on American colonial history....
The year 1936 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin
Andrew C. McLaughlin
Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin was an American historian of Scottish people immigrant parents. He received his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Michigan....
The year 1938 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck
Paul Herman Buck
Paul Herman Buck was an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1938 and became the first Provost of Harvard University in 1945....
The year 1939 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott
Frank Luther Mott
Frank Luther Mott was an American historian and journalist of Religious Society of Friends descent. He taught at the University of Iowa for twenty years until his appointment as Dean of the University of Missouri 's School of Journalism in 1942....
The year 1940 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was an United States writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln....
The year 1942 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech
Margaret Leech
Margaret Kernochan Leech also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American author and historian, who won two Pulitzer Prizes in Pulitzer Prize for History, for her books Reveille in Washington and In the Days of McKinley ....
The year 1943 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes
Esther Forbes
Esther Forbes was an United States of America novelist and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal.Forbes was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, the fifth of six children born to Harriette Merrifield and William Trowbridge Forbes....
The year 1944 in literature involved some significant new books.... :The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti
Merle Curti
Merle Eugene Curti was a leading United States historian. His specialty was social and intellectual history. He founded three academic disciplines?peace studies, intellectual history and social history?and helped create cliometrics as a tool in historical research....
The year 1945 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business is the second collaboration LP between R. Kelly and Jay-Z , released in 2004. The album was, allegedly, composed of previously unreleased tracks from the Best of Both Worlds sessions.... by Stephen Bonsal
Stephen Bonsal
Stephen Bonsal was an United States historian, essayist, diplomat and translator....
The year 1947 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III
James Phinney Baxter III
James Phinney Baxter III was an American historian, educator and academic. He won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for history, for his book Scientists Against Time....
The year 1948 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Across the Wide Missouri
Across the Wide Missouri
Across the Wide Missouri is a 1947 historical work by Bernard DeVoto. It is the second volume of a trilogy that includes The Year of Decision and The Course of Empire .... by Bernard DeVoto
Bernard DeVoto
Bernard Augustine DeVoto was an United States historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West....
The Disruption of American Democracy is a book published by American historian Roy Franklin Nichols in 1948. Nichols won the Pulitzer Prize for History for the book in 1949.... by Roy Franklin Nichols
Roy Franklin Nichols
Roy Franklin Nichols was an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Disruption of American Democracy....
The year 1951 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley
R. Carlyle Buley
Roscoe Carlyle Buley Roscoe Carlyle Buley was born in Georgetown, Indiana, on July 8, 1893. The son of David M. Buley -- a Hoosier school teacher -- and Nora Buley, he graduated Vincennes High School in 1910....
The year 1953 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
George Dangerfield
George Dangerfield was a journalist, an author, and the literary editor of Vanity Fair from 1933 to 1935.Dangerfield was born in Newbury, Berkshire in England and educated at Forest School , Walthamstow ....
The year 1954 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :A Stillness at Appomattox
A Stillness at Appomattox
A Stillness at Appomattox is an American Civil War historical work written by Bruce Catton in 1953. It is also known as The Army of the Potomac: A Stillness at Appomattox. It is a history on the American Civil War that recounts the final year, describing the campaigns of Ulysses S.... by Bruce Catton
Bruce Catton
Bruce Catton was a journalist and a notable historian of the American Civil War. He won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox, his study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia....
The year 1955 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan
Paul Horgan
Paul Horgan was an United States author of fiction and non-fiction, most of which was set in the Southwestern United States. Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1903, he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1915....
The year 1956 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Age of Reform
The Age of Reform
The Age of Reform is a 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Richard Hofstadter. The book is an United States history that traces events from the Populism of the 1890s through the Progressive Era ending with the New Deal in the 1930s.... by Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter was an United States historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. One of the leading public intellectuals of the 1950s, his works include The Age of Reform and Anti-intellectualism in American Life , both of which won the Pulitzer Prize?the former for History and the latter fo...
The year 1957 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan was an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War....
Banks and Politics in America is a 1957-published book written by Bray Hammond. The book describes the differences in banking and politics in the United States between the American Revolution and the American Civil War period.... by Bray Hammond
Bray Hammond
Bray Hammond was an author and assistant secretary of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System between the years of 1944 and 1950. In his book, Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War, he describes his father as a "country banker in Iowa."...
The year 1959 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Republican Era: 1869-1901 by Leonard D. White
Leonard D. White
Leonard D. White is the great historian of the field of public administration in the United States. His technique was to study administration in the context of grouped President of the United States periods.... and Jean Schneider
The year 1960 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
Margaret Leech
Margaret Kernochan Leech also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American author and historian, who won two Pulitzer Prizes in Pulitzer Prize for History, for her books Reveille in Washington and In the Days of McKinley ....
The year 1961 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis
Herbert Feis
Herbert Feis was an United States Author and former Economic Advisor for International Affairs to the Department of State in the Herbert Hoover and Franklin D....
The year 1962 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson
Lawrence H. Gipson
Lawrence Henry Gipson was a United States historian, who won the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for History. He is best known as a leader of the Historiography of the British Empire of historians who studied, and generally praised the British Empire in the 18th century....
The year 1963 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green
The year 1964 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell
The year 1966 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller
Perry Miller
Perry G. Miller was an United States intellectual historian and Harvard University professor. He was an authority on American Puritanism. Alfred Kazin referred to him as "the master of American intellectual history"....
The year 1967 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution is a Pulitzer Prize for History-winning book of history by Bernard Bailyn. It is considered one of the most influential studies of the American Revolution published during the 20th century.... by Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953....
'Origins of the Fifth Amendment' by Leonard W. Levy Oxford University Press, 1968, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1969. It followed in the wake of the 1966 United States Supreme Court Opinion Miranda v.... by Leonard W. Levy
The year 1970 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson
Dean Acheson
Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman during 1949?1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War....
The year 1971 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns
James MacGregor Burns
James MacGregor Burns is a presidential biographer, authority on leadership studies, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Political Science at Williams College, and scholar at the at the University of Maryland, College Park....
The year 1972 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler
Carl N. Degler
Carl Neumann Degler is an United States historian. Degler is a past president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association....
The year 1973 in literature involved several significant events and the writing of many notable books.... :People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen
Michael Kammen
Michael Kammen is a professor of American cultural history in the Cornell University Department of History at Cornell University. He was born in 1936 in Rochester, New York, grew up in the Washington, DC area, and was educated at the George Washington University and Harvard University ....
The year 1974 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel Joseph Boorstin was an American historian, professor, Lawyer, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of Congress of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987....
The year 1975 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone
Dumas Malone
Dumas Malone , an United States author, was born at Coldwater, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States on January 10, 1892. He received his bachelor's degree in 1910 from Emory College and in 1916 he received his divinity degree from Yale University....
The year 1976 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
Paul Horgan
Paul Horgan was an United States author of fiction and non-fiction, most of which was set in the Southwestern United States. Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1903, he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1915....
The year 1977 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 by David M. Potter
David M. Potter
David M. Potter was an American historian of the Southern United States. He was born in Augusta, Georgia, and graduated from Emory University in 1932.... (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
Don E. Fehrenbacher
Don Edward Fehrenbacher was an United States historian.... )
The year 1978 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations....
The year 1979 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher
Don E. Fehrenbacher
Don Edward Fehrenbacher was an United States historian....
The year 1980 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
Leon F. Litwack
Leon F. Litwack is an United States historian and professor of history at the UC Berkeley He is the 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history for his book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. He retired to emeritus status at the end of the Spring 2007 semester....
The year 1981 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin
Lawrence A. Cremin
Lawrence A. Cremin was an educational historian and Administration . He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1949. He won the 1962 Bancroft Prize in History of the United States for his book The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957....
The year 1982 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward
C. Vann Woodward
Comer Vann Woodward was a pre-eminent United States historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. He was considered, along with Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to be one of the most influential historians of the postwar era, 1940s-1970s, both among scholars and the general public....
The year 1983 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac
Rhys L. Isaac
Rhys Llywelyn Isaac is Emeritus Professor of American History at La Trobe University, Australia and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Early American History at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia....
The year 1986 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall
Walter A. McDougall
Walter A. McDougall is an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He is Professor of History and the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania....
The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953....
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the American Civil War published in 1988 by James M. McPherson.... by James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University....
The year 1989 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch is an American author and historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr....
The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
Stanley Karnow
Stanley Karnow is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who covered Asia from 1959 as chief correspondent for Time and Life magazines. Until 1974 he was in southeast Asia reporting for the Saturday Evening Post, the London Observer, the Washington Post, and NBC News....
The year 1992 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Mark E. Neely, Jr., is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian best known as an authority on the U.S. Civil War in general and Abraham Lincoln in particular....
The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution....
The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer and historian, and an oft-seen political commentator. She is the author of biographies of several U.S....
The year 1996 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor is an historian specializing in early American history. He is the author of a number of books about Colonial America, the American Revolution, and the Early American Republic....
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution is a 464 page, non-fiction book authored by Jack N. Rakove and published on May 27, 1997 by Vintage Books.... by Jack N. Rakove
Jack N. Rakove
Jack Norman Rakove is an United States historian, author, professor at Stanford University, and Pulitzer Prize winner....
The year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 is a nonfiction book written by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace . It was published in 1998 by Oxford University Press .... by Edwin G. Burrows
Edwin G. Burrows
Edwin G. Burrows is a professor of history at Brooklyn College, and is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.... and Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace (historian)
Mike Wallace is an American historian. He is currently the director of the Gotham Center for New York City History. He is also Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, where he has taught since 1971....
The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
David M. Kennedy (historian)
David M. Kennedy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializing in American history. He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University and the Director of the Center for the Study of the North American West....
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation is a Pulitzer Prize -winning book written by Joseph Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College.... by Joseph J. Ellis
Joseph Ellis
Joseph John Ellis is a Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College who has written influential and award-winning histories on the founding generation of American presidents....
The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :The Metaphysical Club
The Metaphysical Club
The Metaphysical Club was a conversational philosophical club that future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., psychologist William James, and polymath Charles Sanders Peirce formed in January 1872 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and dissolved in December 1872.... : A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
Louis Menand
Louis Menand is a prominent United States writer and academic, best known for his book The Metaphysical Club , an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America....
The year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
Rick Atkinson
Rick Atkinson is an United States journalist and author whose contributions led to four Pulitzer Prizes.Atkinson was born in Munich. His father was an United States Army Officer and he grew up at Military bases....
The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
Steven Hahn
Steven Hahn is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor in American History at University of Pennsylvania.Educated at the University of Rochester, where he worked with Eugene Genovese and Herbert Gutman, Hahn received his Ph.D....
The year 2005 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
David Hackett Fischer
David Hackett Fischer is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. His major works have tackled everything from large macroeconomic and cultural trends to narrative histories of significant events to explorations of historiography ....
The year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books.... :Polio: An American Story
Polio: An American Story
Polio: An American Story is a book by David M. Oshinsky, professor of history at University of Texas at Austin, which documents the poliomyelitis epidemic in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s and the race to find a cure.... by David Oshinsky
David Oshinsky
David M. Oshinsky is a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States historian; he currently holds the Jack S. Blanton chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin and is a distinguished scholar in residence at New York University....
The year 2007 in literature involves some significant new books.... :The Race Beat by Gene Roberts
Gene Roberts (journalist)
Gene Roberts is an United States journalist and professor of journalism. Roberts was executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1972 to 1990 and managing editor of The New York Times from 1994 to 1997.... and Hank Klibanoff
Hank Klibanoff
File:Hank klibanoff 2007.jpgHank Klibanoff was the Managing Editor for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution until June 24, 2008 when he stepped down ....
Events*None at present... :What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
Daniel Walker Howe
Daniel Walker Howe is a historian of the early national period of American history and specializes in the intellectual and religious history of the United States....
