For a distinguished book upon the history of the United States, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).

Awarded to Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove (Alfred A. Knopf)

Columbia University President, George Rupp (left), presents Jack N. Rakove with the Pulitzer Prize for History.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "Founding Mothers and Fathers" by Mary Beth Norton (Alfred A. Knopf), and "The Battle for Christmas" by Stephen Nissenbaum (Alfred A. Knopf).