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The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1943.
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1944.
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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.
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Earle L. "Buddy" Bunker was a photographer for the Omaha World-Herald and one of the two winners of the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Photography. Bunker won the Pulitzer for his photograph which he titled "Homecoming".
Elizabeth Anne Fenn is an American historian. Her book Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History. She serves as the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill chair in Western American History at University of Colorado-Boulder.
Edward Joseph Mowery was an award-winning American journalist.
Jacqueline Marie Banaszynski is an American journalist. She was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1988. Banaszynski went on to become a professor and a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Chair at the school of journalism at University of Missouri.
Margo Huston is an American reporter. She won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting while working at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The Victory at Sea is a 1920 military history book by Admiral William Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick. It concern's Sims' career in the Atlantic theater of World War I. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for History.
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Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History is a book by Paul Horgan. It won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Bancroft Prize in 1955.
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References
- ↑ "1943 Pulitzer Prizes". Pulitzer. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ↑ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 292–. ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2 . Retrieved 12 September 2020.
