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Prize Winners by Year Prize Winners by Category Explore Lists History For a distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
The prizes, originally endowed with a gift of $500,000 from the newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917. In his will, Pulitzer prescribed four awards in journalism, four in books and drama, one for education, and five traveling scholarships.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
Many people have won more than one Pulitzer Prize. Nelson Harding is the only person to have received a prize in two consecutive years, the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1927 and 1928. American poet Robert Frost received the Pulitzer Prize four times from 1924 to 1943.
This war has also claimed the lives of poets and writers among the casualties. As the Pulitzer Prizes honor categories of journalism, arts, and letters, we mark the loss of invaluable records of the human experience.
Since 1984 Pulitzer winners have received their prizes from the president of Columbia University at a luncheon in May in the rotunda of the Low Library in the presence of family members, professional associates, board members, and the faculty of the School of Journalism.
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According to the official list published at http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/History, it won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1923. This is also reflected (correctly) in Goodreads's bibliographical data on the corresponding book page.
