Did you know that annually a Pulitzer Prize is awarded to recognize the best work of history published in the given year? 

Some of the past works so honored are:

·Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fisher (2005)

·Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (2001)

·Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson (1998)

·The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood (1993)

·Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (1989)

·Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson (1989)

·Mary Chestnut’s Civil War by C. Vann Woodward (1982)

·The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin (1974)

·The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller (1966)

·The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter (1956)

·A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (1954)

·The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1946)

·Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg (1940)