War + Peace

As Veterans Day approaches, read the jury report assessing the 1945 Poetry winner's World War II-inspired work.

Pulitzer-winning reportage of the September 11th attacks offers indelible first drafts of history.

Burns' latest project, 'The Vietnam War,' is airing on PBS. Recently retired Pulitzer administrator Mike Pride speaks to him about the making of the film — and why three prize-winning images conjure the war for young Americans.

A veteran journalist sees the writing on the wall.

The My Lai story, as readers experienced it when it was first published in 1969.

The AP assigns the right reporter to cover the interment of a World War I soldier at the dedication of the Tomb of the Unknowns in 1921.

Thomas L. Friedman, columnist for The New York Times, helped the country put the shock of 9/11 in context.

Typical Ernie Pyle: ‘For once we have enough of something and at the right time.’

On this day in 1979, Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq. Here, read two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Shadid's telling of how the regime fell 24 years later.

Higgins was the only woman among six reporters honored in 1951 for covering the Korean War. The Pulitzer jury noted: 'She is entitled to special consideration by reason of being a woman, since she had to work under unusual dangers.'