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The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War is a book by Perry Miller It won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for History.
The War with Mexico is a book by Justin Harvey Smith. It won the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for History.
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History of the American Frontier is a book by Frederic L. Paxson originally published in 1924 by Houghton Mifflin which won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for History.
Art and Life in America is a book by Oliver W. Larkin published in 1949 by Rinehart & Company which won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a book which comprehensively deals about Art and artists in the United States.
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Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History is a book by Paul Horgan. It won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for History.
The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation is a book by Charles Howard McIlwain. It won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for History.
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- ↑ Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 284. ISBN 1-57356-111-8.
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