Annal:1987 Pulitzer Prize for History
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1987. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
- 1987 Pulitzer–History winner
- Score: 10.37
“These two volumes [The Peopling Of British North America: An Introduction and Voyagers To The West] bring to a triumphant culmination not only a distinguished career but some of the best work of an entire generation of American historians …. He wants to come closer than any predecessor to a comprehensive account of immigration to British North America—the origins, the motives, the experience—and these volumes persuade me that he has succeeded….Bailyn has inaugurated one of the most important historical works of the last thirty years.” — David Levin, The Nation
