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Award-Winning Books: Pulitzer for History

Features titles of award winners such as the Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King awards. Also includes the call number if the Vise Library owns a particular item.

What is the Pulitzer Prize for History?

The Pulitzer Prize for History is for "a distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States." --https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/220

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"Frederick Douglass" by David W. Blight - 2019 Winner