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

Awarded to Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (Oxford University Press)

Columbia University Provost Jonathan R. Cole (right) presents Edwin G. Burrows (left) and Mike Wallace (center) with the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in History.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age" by William E. Burrows (Random House), and "In A Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival" by Paula Mitchell Marks (William Morrow and Company, Inc.).