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	Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The very first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on June 4, 1917, and in recent times, they are announced each year, in the month of April.
		The prize was established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher in the late 19th century.
		In addition to the prizes, Pulitzer travelling fellowships are awarded to four outstanding students of the Graduate School of Journalism as selected by the faculty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize (771 words)

	Ellis Wins Pulitzer Prize for History
		The Pulitzer Prize is one of this country's most prestigious awards and sought-after accolades in journalism, letters, and music.
		In letters, prizes were to go to an American novel, an original American play performed in New York, a book on the history of the United States, an American biography, and a history of public service by the press.
		History professor William McFeely, a Mount Holyoke professor from 1970 to 1986, won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Grant: A Biography (W. Norton, 1981).
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/042001/ellis.shtml (1005 words)

	Pulitzer Prize-winning history Professor Don E. Fehrenbacher dies (12/97)
		Among his many honors and awards, Fehrenbacher won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize in history for The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, a comprehensive study of American political, legal and constitutional history in the context of the 1857 Supreme Court decision.
		It was the second time he had been associated with the Pulitzer in history: The 1977 award went to the late Stanford Professor David M. Potter, whose posthumous book on The Impending Crisis: 1848-1861 was completed and edited by Fehrenbacher.
		It was a measure of Fehrenbacher's breadth of scholarship on the history of the 19th century that David Potter had asked him to complete his unfinished magnum opus on the coming of the Civil War, Degler said.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/97/971218fehrenbach.html (581 words)

	Department of History \| HISTORY
		The Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, Ellis is a nationally recognized scholar on American history from colonial times through the early decades of the Republic.
		Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University, New York City, for public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music.
		The prizes have varied in number and category over the years but currently number 14 prizes in the field of journalism, six prizes in letters, and one prize in music.
	www.wm.edu /history?fetchid=2479&template=print (490 words)

	Pulitzer Prize -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		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.
		The Swedish Academy of Letters, in awarding the $825,000 prize, proclaimed her “a literary artist of the first rank” and offered high praise for her masterful style by adding, “She delves into the language itself, a...
		Pulitzer was the grandson of the founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, of which he became editor and publisher in 1955 on the death of his father.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9061873?tocId=9061873 (793 words)

	CNN.com - September 11 coverage dominates Pulitzers - April 8, 2002
		McWhorter won the Pulitzer in the general nonfiction category for her memoir of the Civil Rights struggle, "Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution." It was her first book.
		The prize for music was awarded to Henry Brant for "Ice Field." Brant works in what is called "spatial music," in which the instruments are spread throughout the concert hall.
		In feature writing, the Pulitzer committee honored Barry Siegel of the Los Angeles Times for what the board called his "humane and haunting" story of a case involving a man, the death of his son, and the connection of the judge to the case.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/04/08/pulitzer.prizes (723 words)

	Variety.com - History plans 'Brothers' doc
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Susan Werbe, executive producer of "Founding Brothers" for History, said she plans to use the book as the basis for a four-hour documentary that would in effect be a followup to last November's successful four-hour "Founding Fathers" on History Channel.
		History is happy it signed the deal before Ellis won the Pulitzer because the prize would have elevated the license fee.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117797579 (316 words)

	Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
		Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 is a nonfiction book written by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace.
		It was the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Gotham:_A_History_of_New_York_City_to_1898 (172 words)

	News Release - DeKalb County Public Library
		A first for Atlanta - a series of public appearances by three of America's most distinguished historians, all winners of the Pulitzer Prize - begins later this month at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum.
		The series, "A Trio of Pulitzers," is sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book at the DeKalb County Public Library with the Carter Library.
		David Herbert Donald, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in History at Harvard University, ends the series with a lecture Thursday November 11 at 8:00 PM.
	www.dekalb.public.lib.ga.us /new/3pulitz.htm (295 words)

	UGA FACULTY MEMBER WINS PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		History department chair David Roberts, on hearing the news, commented that Larson is "a terrific writer with a knack for concise and elegant expression.
		Larson, 44, a faculty member at UGA since 1987, holds a joint appointment with the School of Law and the history department in the College of Arts and Sciences.
		Larson holds both a law degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Wisconsin.
	www.uga.edu /uc/nr/current/04-14-98a.html (387 words)

	Pulitzer Prize Winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Will Read from Her New Book Nov. 14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		DURHAM, N.H. -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, former professor of history at the University of New Hampshire and winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1991, will read and show slides from her new book, The Age of Homespun, at UNH Tuesday, Nov. 13.
		She received her Ph.D. at UNH in 1980, and taught in the history department for a decade.
		She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1991 for A Midwife¹'sTale.
	www.unh.edu /news/news_releases/2001/november/kb_20011101ulrich.html (288 words)

	Boy captivated by history becomes Pulitzer Prize winning historian
		For many current and former Brandeis undergraduate and graduate students of American history, that mentor, teacher, admired colleague, and friend is historian David Hackett Fischer.
		History was all around me, and I think that certainly had an impact.
		Not just history is woven into the fabric of his childhood, but storytelling, fueled by the conflict between North and South that meets and mingles in his border state.
	my.brandeis.edu /profiles/one-profile?profile_id=557 (677 words)

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		Professor Mark E. Neely, Jr., winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in history, will be a featured speaker in the 26th annual Evening Series Lectures cosponsored by The Museum of the Confederacy and the Library of Virginia.
		Conventional wisdom holds that the Civil War was the first "total war." Students of world history know that wars ravaged civilian populations long before the 1860s, but the names of William T. Sherman, Andersonville, and the Immortal 600 provide ample evidence that America’s "civil war" was anything but.
		Gillispie, history instructor at Sampson Community College, N.C., is the author of two recent articles published in North & South magazine: "Guests of the Yankees: A Reevaluation of Union Treatment of Confederate Prisoners" and "Postwar Mythmaking: Popular Writing on the Treatment of Prisoners, 1865-1920." He has completed a book manuscript on the subject.
	www.richmond.com /printer.cfm?article=2913032 (349 words)

	Celebrating Women's History Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		A native of Newburgh, Margaret Leech was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for history and the only woman to gain that recognition twice.
		The Pulitzer Prize, named after the Hungarian-born journalist Joseph Pulitzer, was first established in 1917 as an incentive to achieve excellence.
		Leech’s first Pulitzer came in 1942 for Reveille in Washington, her book on the nation’s capital during the Civil War period.
	www.senate.state.ny.us /sws/wod/ed_leech.html (195 words)

	The Johns Hopkins Gazette: April 15, 2002
		Harris received a doctorate in history from Johns Hopkins after graduating from MIT with a bachelor's degree in humanities and science.
		Drawing on a wide range of sources, from census records to oral histories, Harris' narrative of life in these three regions emerges through the stories of individuals: planters, sharecroppers, small farmers, educators, activists, businessmen and artists.
		Harris takes his acclaimed history up to the end of the New Deal era when, he contends, changes in these regions had prepared the way for the civil rights movement and the end of segregation.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2002/15apr02/15souths.html (482 words)

	Pulitzer Prize in history awarded to UW grad (Apr 17, 1998)
		The 1998 Pulitzer Prize in history has been awarded to Edward J. Larson, a professor of history and law at the University of Georgia and a UW-Madison graduate.
		Larson was cited for his book, "Summer for the Gods," a cultural history of the famous Scopes monkey trial of 1925, a trial that, until the O.J. Simpson case, was the most famous trial in American history.
		As told by Larson, the story of the Scopes trial was both that of a media circus and an earnest battle between fundamentalist religion and science, a battle that Larson contends continues today.
	www.news.wisc.edu /3982.html (170 words)

	Stanford professor wins Pulitzer Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Jack Rakove, a Stanford history professor, started doing research on some things politicians were saying about the Constitution back in 1983 because the arguments piqued his interest as a scholar.
		Two history professor emeriti, Carl Degler and Don Fehrenbacher, were Pulitzer winners in 1972 and 1979, respectively, but Rakove will be the only Pulitzer winner among current teaching faculty in the History Department.
		Jim Risser, the director of the John S. Knight Fellowships program at Stanford, is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board but abstained from the discussion and vote to award a prize to Rakove because they both work at Stanford.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/news/1997_Apr_11.PULITZER.html (457 words)

	Constance McLaughlin Green Biography / Biography of Constance McLaughlin Green Biography Biography
		An expert in urban history, Constance McLaughlin Green (1897-1975) won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for history at a time when there were few published women historians.
		Her father, Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, was a professor of constitutional history at the University of Michigan and then at the University of Chicago.
		He won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1936, an accomplishment his daughter repeated in 1963 for the first volume of her study of Washington, D.C. Green was a pioneer in the field of urban history, and her work provides an example of the early narrative approach to the subject.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-constance-mclaughlin-green (260 words)

	The Flat Hat: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Professor Joseph J. Ellis, '65, was awarded Monday with the Pulitzer Prize for History for his sixth book, "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation".
		Ellis has the distinction of being one of the nation's foremost authorities on America's colonial period and the early years of the republic.
		Previously, he won the National Book Award in Nonfiction for "American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson," which also was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1997.
	flathat.wm.edu /April202001/newsstory2.shtml (253 words)

	Cornell News: Women's history lectures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Ulrich, the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard, received the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in American history for her book A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on her Diary, 1785-1812.
		Widely recognized for her scholarly achievements, Ulrich is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, among them the Bancroft Prize in American History (1991), the John S. Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association in 1990, a MacArthur Fellowship "genius award" from 1992 to 1997 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991.
		The Becker Lectures in History series is the most important event sponsored by the Department of History.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/April99/Becker.Lecture.Ulrich.html (371 words)

	WHITE HOUSE MILLENNIUM EVENING
		Professor Bailyn won the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes (1968) for Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), the National Book Award in History in 1975 for The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974), and the Pulitzer Prize in History, for Voyagers to the West (1986).
		The former president of the American Historical Association, he is a foreign member of the British Academy and the Mexican Academy of History and Geography; in 1994 he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences, the first American historian to be elected to that body since George Bancroft in 1867.
		These innovations were developed over time by the colonials to protect the self-rule and ideas of liberty they felt were under attack by the assertion of British authority in the American colonies in the 1760's and 1770's.
	clinton2.nara.gov /Initiatives/Millennium/bailyn.html (660 words)

	Pulitzer Prize History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Pulitzer Prize was endowed by Joseph Pulitzer in 1917.
		There are prizes in letters that are for fiction, history, biography or autobiography, poetry and general nonfiction.
		Paid from Pulitzer endowments, a gold medal is one of the special awards for public service in journalism.
	iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Fall98/Brake/3main.htm (115 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Pulitzer Prize for History -- April 20, 1999
		TERENCE SMITH: The Pulitzer Prize in History went to Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace for their book, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.
		The authors are history professors teaching in New York City, Mike Wallace at John K. College of Criminal Justice, and Edwin Burrows at Brooklyn College.
		We had been collaborating on a history of the United States, and we thought, well, we had some pretty good ideas, maybe we should try sort of a test of those ideas and maybe do the history of New York City, which we thought we could finish pretty quickly.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june99/pulitzer_4-20.html (1555 words)

	Pulitzer Prize Winners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, this award honors books which address the largest themes in life, the raw passion and tragedy of the human condition.
		The prize for music went to "On the Transmigration of Souls" by John Adams.
		A tribute to victims, survivors and heroes of September 11, "On the Transmigration of Souls" was premiered by the New York Philharmonic on September 19, 2002.
	www.literature-awards.com /pulitzerprize.htm (410 words)

	Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Prize Winner- History- April 17, 2000
		ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The winner in history this year is David Kennedy for his book "Freedom From Fear, the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945." In telling his story, Kennedy combines grand narrative sweep with revealing details that remain in the mind long after book has been read.
		He is a professor of history at Stanford university and has also written books about World War I and the history of the birth control movement in the United States.
		In fact, the whole series, the Oxford History of the United States, which this but one volume, was conceived originally by its original general editors, two wonderful historians, C. Van Woodward and Richard Hoffstader.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/jan-june00/kennedy_4-17.html (1469 words)

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