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A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 is a history book by James Ford Rhodes. It won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1918. The book is about the American Civil War.
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The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War is a nonfiction history book by Perry Miller. It won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for History. Miller writing about "Evangelical Basis", "The Legal Mentality", "Science". Book three was incomplete. The Life of the Mind was published posthumously.
Scientists Against Time is a nonfiction history book by James Phinney Baxter III. It was published in 1946 by Little, Brown and Company, and won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History.
History of the American Frontier is a history book by Frederic L. Paxson, originally published in 1924 by Houghton Mifflin. It won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1925.
In the Days of McKinley is a nonfiction history book by Margaret Leech published in 1959 by Harper & Brothers Publishers. It won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a biography of the former American President William McKinley.
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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Thomas Harry Williams was an American historian and author. For the majority of his academic career between the 1930s to 1970s, Williams taught history at Louisiana State University. While at LSU, Williams was a Boyd Professor of History from 1953 to 1979. Near the end of his tenure at LSU, the university created the T. Harry Williams Chair of American History. He also taught at extension schools in Wisconsin and at the Municipal University of Omaha.
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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.
