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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1919.
The Pulitzer Prizes for 1921:
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1924.
The Pulitzer Prizes for 1981 were announced on April 13, 1981.
Justin Harvey Smith was an American historian and specialist on the Mexican–American War.
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1944.
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1957.
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1964.
Louis Isaac Jaffe was a Lithuanian-American Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and former director of the American Red Cross News Service, in Paris, for the European bureau. He served for over three decades, and serving as the editorial page editor of the newspaper, Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Virginia.
Roy Franklin Nichols was an American historian who won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Disruption of American Democracy.
Whispers Out of Time (1984) is a composition by Roger Reynolds for string orchestra. He was awarded the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Music for the piece, causing Kyle Gann to quip that it was the first time it was being given to an experimental composer since Charles Ives in 1947. It premiered on December 11, 1988, at Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Massachusetts, with Harvey Sollberger conducting.
- The soul is a captive
- A magma of interiors
- Like a wave breaking on a rock
- The surprise, the tension are in the concept
- A chill, a blight moving outward
- The portrait's will to endure
The War with Mexico is a 1919 nonfiction book by Justin Harvey Smith. It won the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for History.
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References
- ↑ Heinz-Dietrich Fischer; Erika J. Fischer (2011). Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 13–14. ISBN 978-3110939125.
- ↑ Rodney W. Howe (1994). An historical analysis of "Law and the Jungle", the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial by Harvey E. Newbranch (Thesis). University of Nebraska–Lincoln. OCLC 30575882.
