The Pulitzer Prize has been honoring excellence in journalism and the arts since 1917.Read these prize winners:
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (2009)
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (2008)
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (2007)
Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky (2006)