Timeline – 1931 – Our PhDs Win Pultizer Prizes, Too

Among our distinguished PhDs in History and History of Science are the following winners of the Pultizer Prize in History:

• Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (History PhD, 1910)—in 1931 for The Coming of the War, 1914 (1930).
• R. Carlyle Buley (History PhD, 1925)—in 1951 for The Old Northwest: Pioneer Period, 1815-1840 (1950).
• T. Harry Williams (History PhD, 1937)—in 1970 for Huey Long (1969).
• Thomas K. McCraw (History PhD, 1970)—in 1985 for Prophets of Regulation (1984).
• Edward J. Larson (History of Science PhD, 1984)—in 1998 for Summer for the Gods (1997).
• David W. Blight (History PhD, 1985)—in 2019 for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018).

The full list of Pulitzer Prize winners is available online.