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Pulitzer Prize for History
American award for history books
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The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the history of the United States. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.[1] The Pulitzer Prize program has also recognized some historical work with its Biography prize, from 1917, and its General Nonfiction prize, from 1962.
Finalists have been announced since 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner.[2]
Winners
In its first 97 years to 2013, the History Pulitzer was awarded 95 times. Two prizes were given in 1989; none in 1919, 1984, and 1994.[2]
1910s–1970s
1980s
Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.
1990s
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Stanley Karnow | In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines | Winner | |
| Hugh Honour | The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I | Finalist | ||
| Thomas P. Hughes | American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870–1970 | Finalist | ||
| 1991 | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | A Midwife's Tale | Winner | |
| Lizabeth Cohen | Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 | Finalist | ||
| Hugh Davis Graham | The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy | Finalist | ||
| Kenneth M. Stampp | America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink | Finalist | ||
| 1992 | Mark E. Neely, Jr. | The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties | Winner | |
| William Cronon | Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West | Finalist | ||
| Theodore Draper | A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs | Finalist | ||
| John Frederick Martin | Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century | Finalist | ||
| Richard White | The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 | Finalist | ||
| 1993 | Gordon S. Wood | The Radicalism of the American Revolution | Winner | |
| Edward L. Ayers | The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction | Finalist | ||
| Garry Wills | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America | Finalist | ||
| 1994 | No award given | |||
| Lawrence M. Friedman | Crime and Punishment in American History | Finalist | ||
| Gerald Posner | Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK | Finalist | ||
| Joel Williamson | William Faulkner and Southern History | Finalist | ||
| 1995 | Doris Kearns Goodwin | No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II | Winner | |
| James Goodman | Stories of Scottsboro | Finalist | ||
| Merrill D. Peterson | Lincoln in American Memory | Finalist | ||
| 1996 | Alan Taylor | William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic | Winner | |
| Lance Banning | The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic | Finalist | ||
| Richard Rhodes | Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb | Finalist | ||
| 1997 | Jack N. Rakove | Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution | Winner | |
| Stephen Nissenbaum | The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday | Finalist | ||
| Mary Beth Norton | Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society | Finalist | ||
| 1998 | Edward J. Larson | Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion | Winner | [35] |
| J. Anthony Lukas | Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets off a Struggle for the Soul of America | Finalist | ||
| Rogers Smith | Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History | Finalist | ||
| 1999 | Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace | Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 | Winner | [36] |
| William E. Burrows | This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age | Finalist | ||
| Paula Mitchell Marks | In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival | Finalist | ||
2000s
2010s
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Liaquat Ahamed | Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World | Winner | [40] |
| Greg Grandin | Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City | Finalist | ||
| Gordon S. Wood | Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 | Finalist | ||
| 2011 | Eric Foner | The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery | Winner | [41] |
| Stephanie McCurry | Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South | Finalist | [42] | |
| Michael J. Rawson | Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston | Finalist | [43] | |
| 2012 | Manning Marable† | Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention | Winner | [44][45] |
| Anne F. Hyde | Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 | Finalist | ||
| Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan | The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden | Finalist | ||
| Richard White | Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America | Finalist | ||
| 2013 | Fredrik Logevall | Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam | Winner | [46] |
| Bernard Bailyn | The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 | Finalist | ||
| John Fabian Witt | Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History | Finalist | ||
| 2014 | Alan Taylor | The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 | Winner | [47][48] |
| Jacqueline Jones | A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America | Finalist | ||
| Eric Schlosser | Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety | Finalist | ||
| 2015 | Elizabeth A. Fenn | Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People | Winner | [49] |
| Sven Beckert | Empire of Cotton: A Global History | Finalist | ||
| Nick Bunker | An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America | Finalist | ||
| 2016 | T. J. Stiles | Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America | Winner | [50] |
| Annie Jacobsen | The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency | Finalist | ||
| Brian Matthew Jordan | Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War | Finalist | ||
| James M. Scott | Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor | Finalist | ||
| 2017 | Heather Ann Thompson | Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy | Winner | [51][52] |
| Larrie D. Ferreiro | Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It | Finalist | ||
| Wendy Warren | New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America | Finalist | ||
| 2018 | Jack E. Davis | The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea | Winner | [53][54] |
| Kim Phillips-Fein | Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics | Finalist | [53] | |
| Steven J. Ross | Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America | Finalist | [53] | |
| 2019 | David W. Blight | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom | Winner | [55][56] |
| W. Fitzhugh Brundage | Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition | Finalist | [55] | |
| Victoria Johnson | American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic | Finalist | [55] |
2020s
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | W. Caleb McDaniel | Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America | Winner | [57][58][59] |
| Greg Grandin | The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America | Finalist | [57] | |
| Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership | Finalist | [57] | |
| 2021 | Marcia Chatelain | Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America | Winner | [60][61][62] |
| Eric Cervini | The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America | Finalist | [61] | |
| Megan Kate Nelson | The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West | Finalist | [61] | |
| 2022 | Nicole Eustace | Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America | Winner | [63][64][65] |
| Ada Ferrer | Cuba: An American History | Winner | [63][64][65] | |
| Kate Masur | Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction | Finalist | [63] | |
| 2023 | Jefferson Cowie | Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power | Winner | [66][67] |
| Garrett M. Graff | Watergate: A New History | Finalist | [66] | |
| Michael John Witgen | Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America | Finalist | [66] | |
| 2024 | Jacqueline Jones | No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era | Winner | [68][69] |
| Elliott West | Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion | Finalist | [68] | |
| Michael Willrich | American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century | Finalist | [68] | |
| 2025 | Kathleen DuVal | Native Nations: A Millennium in North America | Winner | [70] |
| Edda L. Fields-Black | Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War | Winner | [70] | |
| Seth Rockman | Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery | Finalist | [70] | |
| 2026 | Jill Lepore | We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution | Winner | [71] |
| Scott Anderson | King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation | Finalist | ||
| Bench Ansfield | Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City | Finalist |
Repeat winners
Five people have won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice.
- Margaret Leech, 1942 for Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 and 1960 for In the Days of McKinley
- Bernard Bailyn, 1968 for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and 1987 for Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
- Paul Horgan, 1955 for Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History and 1976 for Lamy of Santa Fe
- Alan Taylor, 1996 for William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic and 2014 for The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832[72]
- Don E. Fehrenbacher completed The Impending Crisis by David Potter, for which Potter posthumously won the 1977 prize, and won the 1979 prize himself for The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics.
Notes
- The 1925 jury shortlisted The American States during and after the Revolution, 1775–1789 by Allan Nevins and The Colonial Background of the American Revolution by Charles McLean Andrews.[6]
- The 1926 jury shortlisted Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams, Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in America by Claude G. Bowers and L'Esprit Révolutionnaire en France et aux États-Unis à la Fin du XVIIIe Siècle by Bernard Faÿ.[6]
- The 1930 jury, consisting of three individuals, saw two of its members vote for The Tragic Era: The Revolution after Lincoln by Claude G. Bowers for the prize, while one member voted for The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne. The Pulitzer board gave the prize to the latter.[8]
- The 1931 jury shortlisted Builders of the Bay Colony: A Gallery of Our Intellectual Ancestors by Samuel Eliot Morison.[9]
- The 1932 jury also considered The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams, King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America by Frank Lawrence Owsley and The Martial Spirit: A Study of Our War with Spain by Walter Millis.[10]
- The 1933 jury was split, with two members recommending the eventual winner The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner. The third juror submitted a minority opinion recommending Our Times: The United States, 1900–1925: Over Here, 1914–1918 by Mark Sullivan.[11]
- The 1934 jury considered Divided Loyalties: Americans in England during the War of Independence by Lewis Einstein and Our Earliest Colonial Settlements: Their Diversities of Origin and Later Characteristics by Charles McLean Andrews. The Pulitzer board made an independent decision in giving the prize to The People's Choice by Herbert Agar.[12]
- The 1935 jury shortlisted The First Year of the American Revolution by Allen French.[12]
- The 1938 jury shortlisted A History of Chicago — Volume 1: The Beginning of a City, 1673–1848 by Bessie Louise Pierce and A History of the Monroe Doctrine by Dexter Perkins.[14]
- The 1940 jury shortlisted, in order, The Rise of New York Port, 1815–1860 by Robert G. Albion, Canadian-American Relations, 1849–1874 by Lester Burrell Shippee, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century by Perry Miller and America in Midpassage by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard.[14]
- The 1941 jury shortlisted, in order, Norwegian Migration to America: The American Transition by Theodore C. Blegen and The Course of American Democratic Thought: An Intellectual History Since 1815 by Ralph Henry Gabriel.[15]
- The 1942 jury shortlisted, in order, Hands Off: A History of the Monroe Doctrine by Dexter Perkins, The Hero in America: A Chronicle of Hero-Worship by Dixon Wecter, The Continental Congress by Edmund Cody Burnett and Secret History of the American Revolution by Carl Van Doren.[16]
- The 1943 jury shortlisted, in order, The Hidden Civil War: The Story of the Copperheads by Wood Gray and Lee's Lieutenants — Volume 1: Manassas to Malvern Hill by Douglas Southall Freeman.[16]
- The 1944 jury shortlisted, in order, The Year of Decision: 1846 by Bernard DeVoto and The Latin American Policy of the United States by Samuel Flagg Bemis.[17]
- The 1944 jury shortlisted, in order, Lee's Lieutenants — Volume 3: Gettysburg to Appomattox by Douglas Southall Freeman, When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Dixon Wecter and The Completion of Independence, 1790–1830 by John Allen Krout and Dixon Ryan Fox. They also commended Freedom's Ferment: Phases of American Social History to 1860 by Alice Felt Tyler, Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace and Thomas A. Bailey and America and Two Wars by Dexter Perkins. The Pulitzer board made their own selection and awarded Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal.[17]
- The 1947 jury shortlisted, in order, The British Empire before the American Revolution by Lawrence Henry Gipson, Lincoln's War Cabinet by Burton J. Hendrick, The Beleaguered City: Richmond, 1861–1865 by Alfred H. Bill and Arsenal of Democracy by Donald Nelson.[19]
- The 1948 jury shortlisted, in order, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II by Samuel Eliot Morison, Ordeal of the Union by Allan Nevins, Postscript to Yesterday by Lloyd Morris and The Puritan Oligarchy by Thomas J. Wertenbaker.[19]
- The 1949 jury shortlisted Literary History of the United States edited by Robert E. Spiller, Willard Thorp, Thomas H. Johnson and Henry Seidel Canby and Men, Cities, and Transportation: A Study in New England History, 1820–1900 by Edward C. Kirkland.[20]
- The 1950 jury placed eventual winner Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin second on their shortlist. Their first choice was The Great War for the Empire by Lawrence Henry Gipson, while the rest of the shortlist included Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions and The Struggle for Guadalcanal (the fourth and fifth volumes of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II) by Samuel Eliot Morison, Steamboats on the Western Rivers by Louis C. Hunter and John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography).[20]
- The 1951 jury shortlisted, in order, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson edited by Julian P. Boyd, And the War Came: The North and the Secession Crisis, 1860–1861 by Kenneth M. Stampp, Church and State in the United States by Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. and Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier (the sixth volume of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II) by Samuel Eliot Morison.[20]
- The 1953 jury shortlisted, in order, The Challenge to Isolation, 1937–1940 by William L. Langer and S. Everett Gleason, Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America by Carl Frederick Wittke, The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union by Bell I. Wiley and Lincoln and His Generals by T. Harry Williams.[21]
- The 1955 jury shortlisted Main Street on the Middle Border by Lewis Eldon Atherton, The Jacksonians: A Study in Administrative History 1829–1861 by Leonard D. White, A History of the Southern Confederacy by Clement Eaton and Americans Interpret Their Civil War by Thomas J. Pressly.[22]
- The 1956 jury shortlisted, in order, The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States by Richard Hofstadter and Walter P. Metzger, Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743–1776 by Carl Bridenbaugh, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925 by John Higham and Pioneering in Big Business (1882–1911) by Ralph W. Hidy and Muriel E. Hidy.[22]
- The 1957 jury shortlisted, in order, Errand into the Wilderness by Perry Miller, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Antebellum South by Kenneth M. Stampp, Wilson: The New Freedom by Arthur S. Link, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power by Howard K. Beale and The Militant South, 1800–1861 by John Hope Franklin.[22]
- The 1958 jury shortlisted The United States and East Central Europe, 1914–1918 by Victor S. Mamatey, The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919–1933 by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin: The War They Waged and the Peace They Sought by Herbert Feis and A History of American Magazines, 1885–1905 by Frank Luther Mott.[23]
- The 1959 jury shortlisted The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote, The Americans: The Colonial Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin and The Era of Theodore Roosevelt by George E. Mowry.[23]
- The 1960 jury placed eventual winner In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech third on their shortlist. Their first choice was The End of American Innocence: A Study of the First Years of Our Own Time, 1912–1917 by Henry F. May and their second choice was The Angry Scar: The Story of Reconstruction by Hodding Carter.[23]
- The 1961 jury shortlisted The Federalist Era, 1789–1801 by John Chester Miller and Origin of the American Revolution: 1759–1766 by Bernhard Knollenberg.[24]
- The 1962 jury shortlisted, in order, The Emerging South by Thomas D. Clark and The Growth of Southern Civilization, 1790–1860 by Clement Eaton.[24]
- The 1963 jury shortlisted, in order, Puritans and Yankees: The Winthrop Dynasty of New England by Richard Slator Dunn and Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations by John Dos Passos.[24]
- The 1964 jury shortlisted The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2 — Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote and Here Lies Virginia: An Archaeologist's View of Colonial Life and History by Ivor Noël Hume.[24]
- The 1965 jury placed eventual winner The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865–1879 by Irwin Unger third on their shortlist. Their first choice was When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson by Eugene Owen Smith and their second choice was Diplomat among Warriors by Robert Daniel Murphy.[25]
- The majority of the 1966 jury recommended The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence by Richard B. Morris while a minority recommended the eventual winner The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller.[25]
- The 1967 jury shortlisted The Monroe Doctrine and American Expansionism, 1843–1849 by Frederick Merk, Congress and the Constitution: A Study of Responsibility by Donald G. Morgan, The Quasi-War: The Politics and Diplomacy of the Undeclared War. With France 1797–1801 By Alexander DeConde, The Gentle Reformers: Massachusetts Democrats in the Cleveland Era by Geoffrey Blodgett and The Washington Community, 1800–1828 by James Sterling Young.[25]
- The 1968 jury shortlisted The Emergence of the New South, 1913–1945 by George Brown Tindall, The Democratic Republicans of New York: The Origins, 1763–1797 by Alfred F. Young, From the Morgenthau Diaries: Years of War, 1941–1945 by John Morton Blum and America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West by John A. Hawgood.[26]
- The 1969 jury shortlisted The Best Men: Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age by John G. Sproat and White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550–1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan.[26]
- The 1970 jury shortlisted, in order, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 by Gordon S. Wood, Grant Takes Command by Bruce Catton and The Harding Era: Warren G. Harding and His Administration by Robert K. Murray.[26]
- The 1971 jury shortlisted American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783 by Lawrence A. Cremin and Sibley's Harvard Graduates Vol. 15, the Classes of 1761–1763 by Clifford K. Shipton.[27]
- The 1972 jury shortlisted, in order, The Rivals: America and Russia since World War II by Adam Ulam and The European Discovery of America by Samuel Eliot Morison.[27]
- The 1973 jury shortlisted The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South by John W. Blassingame, The Great Bridge by David McCullough, The Glorious Revolution in America by David S. Lovejoy, A Religious History of the American People by Sydney E. Ahlstrom and From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765–1776 by Pauline Maier.[27]
- The 1974 jury shortlisted The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970 by Stephan Thernstrom.[29]
- The 1975 jury recommended the eventual winner Jefferson and His Time for a special citation rather than for the prize in History or Biography. The jury had unanimously recommended Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum for the prize and further shortlisted, in order, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten and Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene Genovese.[29]
- The 1976 jury shortlisted A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies by Martin J. Sherwin, The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest by Francis Jennings, The Making of the Monroe Doctrine by Ernest R. May, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941–1946 by W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, and Eagle and Sword: The Federalists and the Creation of the Military Establishment in America, 1783–1802 by Richard H. Kohn.[29]
- The 1977 jury shortlisted The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750–1925 by Herbert Gutman, Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era, 1760–1790 by Lester J. Cappon, World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made by Irving Howe, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger, The Enlightenment in America by Henry F. May, The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP by James M. McPherson and Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939–1941: The Partnership That Saved the West by Joseph P. Lash.[32]
- The 1979 jury placed eventual winner The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher second on their shortlist. Their first choice was Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution by Anthony F. C. Wallace. They also shortlisted The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America by Philip Greven.[32]
