Annal:1980 Pulitzer Prize for History
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1980. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
- 1981 NBA–History winner
- 1980 Pulitzer–History winner
- Score: 20.31
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this “rich and admirably written book” (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in “the peculiar institution.”
