The Pulitzer Prize is an award administered by Columbia University for achievements in newspaper,magazine,online journalism,literature,and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer,who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career,including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2023,Powers has published thirteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory.
Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan was an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971,Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series of articles revealed a secret United States Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and led to a U.S. Supreme Court case,New York Times Co. v. United States,403 U.S. 713 (1971),which invalidated the United States government's use of a restraining order to halt publication.
John Lewis Gaddis is an American military historian,political scientist,and writer. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy,and he has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. Gaddis is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th-century American statesman George F. Kennan. George F. Kennan:An American Life (2011),his biography of Kennan,won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Bernard Bailyn was an American historian,author,and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1953. Bailyn won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice. In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture. He was a recipient of the 2010 National Humanities Medal.
Thomas Andrew Bailey was a professor of history at his alma mater,Stanford University,and wrote many historical monographs on diplomatic history,as well as the widely used American history textbook,The American Pageant. He was known for his witty style and clever terms he coined,such as "international gangsterism." He popularized diplomatic history with his entertaining textbooks and lectures,the presentation style of which followed Ephraim Douglass Adams. Bailey contended foreign policy was significantly affected by public opinion,and that current policymakers could learn from history.
Jay Anthony Lukas was an American journalist and author,best known for his 1985 book Common Ground:A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. Common Ground is a classic study of race relations,class conflict,and school busing in Boston,Massachusetts,as seen through the eyes of three families:one upper-middle-class white,one working-class white,and one working-class African-American.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. was an American historian,social critic,and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a specialist in American history,much of Schlesinger's work explored the history of 20th-century American liberalism. In particular,his work focused on leaders such as Harry S. Truman,Franklin D. Roosevelt,John F. Kennedy,and Robert F. Kennedy. In the 1952 and 1956 presidential campaigns,he was a primary speechwriter and adviser to the Democratic presidential nominee,Adlai Stevenson II. Schlesinger served as special assistant and "court historian" to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration,from the 1960 presidential campaign to the president's state funeral,titled A Thousand Days:John F. Kennedy in the White House,which won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
John W. Dower is an American author and historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat:Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction,the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction,the Bancroft Prize,the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,the Mark Lynton History Prize,and the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association.
Walter Fredrick LaFeber was an American academic who served as the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University. Previous to that he served as the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell.
Frances FitzGerald is an American journalist and historian,who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake:The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972),an account of the Vietnam War. It was a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize,Bancroft Prize,and National Book Award.
David Ebershoff is an American writer,editor,and teacher. His debut novel,The Danish Girl,was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 2015,while his third novel,The 19th Wife,was adapted into a television movie of the same name in 2010.
The Oxford History of the United States (1982–present) is an ongoing multi-volume narrative history of the United States published by Oxford University Press.
Odd Arne Westad FBA is a Norwegian historian specializing in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. He is the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University,where he teaches in the Yale History Department and in the Jackson School of Global Affairs. Previously,Westad held the S.T. Lee Chair of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University,teaching in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Westad has also taught at the London School of Economics,where he served as director of LSE IDEAS. In the spring semester 2019 Westad was Boeing Company Chair in International Relations at Schwarzman College,Tsinghua University.
Samuel Flagg Bemis was an American historian and biographer. For many years he taught at Yale University. He was also president of the American Historical Association and a specialist in American diplomatic history. He was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes. Jerald A. Combs says he was "the greatest of all historians of early American diplomacy."
Glenn Frankel is an American author and academic,journalist and winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He spent 27 years with The Washington Post,where he was bureau chief in Richmond (Va.),Southern Africa,Jerusalem and London,and editor of The Washington PostMagazine. He served as a visiting journalism professor at Stanford University and as Director of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Author of five books,his latest works explore the making of an iconic American movie in the context of the historical era it reflects. In 2018 Frankel was named a Motion Picture Academy Film Scholar. He was named a 2021-2 research fellow of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York for a book about Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
Edward Lynn "Ed" Ayers is an American historian,professor,administrator,and university president. In July 2013,he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony for Ayers's commitment "to making our history as widely available and accessible as possible." He served as the president of the Organization of American Historians in 2017–18.
David Nasaw is an American author,biographer and historian who specializes in the cultural,social and business history of early 20th Century America. Nasaw is on the faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York,where he is the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Professor of History.
Freedom from Fear:The American People in Depression and War,1929–1945 is a Pulitzer Prize–winning book written in 1999 by the American historian David M. Kennedy. It is part of the Oxford History of the United States. The book covers America's coping with the Great Depression and World War II.
David S. Painter is an associate professor of international history at Georgetown University. He is a leading scholar of the Cold War and United States foreign policy during the 20th century,with particular emphasis on their relation to oil.
Presentation by Kennedy on Freedom from Fear,June 5,1999,C-SPAN 