History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Calling all history buffs! Check out these Pulitzer Prize-winning history books at your local library:
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company) 2009
“What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848″ by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press) 2008
SAU call number: E338 .H69 2007
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf) 2007
Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press) 2006
SAU call number: RC181.U5 O83 2005
Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press) 2005
SAU call number: E263.P4 F575 2004
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) Pulitzer winner , 2004
SAU call number: E185.2 .H15 2003
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt and Company) Pulitzer winner ,2003
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (Farrar) Pulitzer winner ,2002
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf) Pulitzer winner ,2001
SAU call number: E302.5 .E45 2000
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy (Oxford University Press) Pulitzer winner, 2000
SAU call number: E801 .K46 1999
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (Oxford University Press) Pulitzer winner , 1999
SAU call number: F128.3 .B87 1999
