Editing Pulitzer Prize for History (section)

===1980s===
Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year.
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Pulitzer Prize for History winners, 1980-1989<ref name=":1" />
!Year
!Author
!Title
!Result

!Ref.
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1980 in literature|1980]]
|{{sortname|last=Litwack|first=Leon F.}}
|''[[Been in the Storm So Long|Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery]]''
|Winner

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Nash|first=Gary B.}}
|{{Sort|Urban Crucible|''The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution''}}
|Finalist

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Unruh|first=John B.}}
|{{Sort|Plains Across|''[[The Plains Across|The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–60]] ''}}
|Finalist

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|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1981 in literature|1981]]
|{{sortname|last=Cremin|first=Lawrence A.}}
|''[[American Education|American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876]]''
|Winner

|<ref>{{cite web |date=September 5, 1990 |title=L.A. Cremin, Historian on Education, Dies |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1145999.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120060650/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1145999.html |archive-date=November 20, 2018 |work=The Washington Post}}</ref>
|-
|{{sortname|last=Kennedy|first=David M.|link=David M. Kennedy (historian)}}
|''Over Here: The First World War and American Society''
|Finalist

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Koehler|first=Lyle}}
|{{Sort|Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England|''A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England''}}
|Finalist

|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1982 in literature|1982]]
|{{sortname|last=Woodward|first=C. Vann}}
|''[[Mary Chesnut's Civil War]]''
|Winner

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Fredrickson|first=George M.}}
|''White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History''
|Finalist

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Iriye|first=Akira}}
|''Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945''
|Finalist

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|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1983 in literature|1983]]
|{{sortname|last=Isaac|first=Rhys L.}}
|{{Sort|Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790|''[[The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790]]''}}
|Winner

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Middlekauff|first=Robert}}
|{{Sort|Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789|''[[The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789]]''}}
|Finalist

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Wyatt-Brown|first=Bertram}}
|''Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South''
|Finalist

|
|-
![[1984 in literature|1984]]
! colspan="3" |No Award presented
!
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1985 in literature|1985]]
|{{sortname|last=McCraw|first=Thomas K.}}
|''[[Prophets of Regulation|Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn]]''
|Winner

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Prucha|first=Francis Paul}}
|{{Sort|Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians|''The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians''}}
|Finalist

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Williamson|first=Joel}}
|{{Sort|Crucible of Race|''The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation''}}
|Finalist

|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |[[1986 in literature|1986]]
|{{sortname|last=McDougall|first=Walter A.}}
|''[[...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age]]''
|Winner

|
|-
|{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Jacqueline}}
|''Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present''
|Finalist

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|-
|{{sortname|last=McDonald|first=Forrest}}
|''Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution''
|Finalist

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Miller|first=Kerby A.}}
|''Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America''
|Finalist

|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1987 in literature|1987]]
|{{sortname|last=Bailyn|first=Bernard}}
|''[[Voyagers to the West|Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution]]''
|Winner

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Eisenhower|first=David}}
|''Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945''
|Finalist

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Garrow|first=David}}
|''[[Bearing the Cross|Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference]]''
|Finalist

|
|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="3" |[[1988 in literature|1988]]
|{{sortname|last=Bruce|first=Robert V.}}
|{{Sort|Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876|''[[The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876]]''}}
|Winner

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Montgomery|first=David|link=David Montgomery (historian)}}
|{{Sort|Fall of the House of Labor|''[[The Fall of the House of Labor|The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925]]''}}
|Finalist

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Rosenberg|first=Charles E.}}
|{{Sort|Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System|''The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System''}}
|Finalist

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|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
! rowspan="4" |[[1989 in literature|1989]]
|{{sortname|last=Branch|first=Taylor}}
|''[[Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963]]''
|Winner

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|- style=background-color:lightyellow;
|{{sortname|last=McPherson|first=James M.}}
|''[[Battle Cry of Freedom (book)|Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era]]''
|Winner

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Foner|first=Eric}}
|''[[Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution – 1863–1877]]''
|Finalist

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|-
|{{sortname|last=Sheehan|first=Neil}}
|{{Sort|Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam|''[[A Bright Shining Lie|A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam]]''}}
|Finalist
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