Pulitzer Stories

William A. Henry III sees the great American myth in a classic movie.

As part of the Pulitzer Centennial Campfires Initiative, University of Central Oklahoma students participated in an event with past prize winners and wrote up accounts of what they learned. Here, Addam Francisco writes about reporter Hailey Branson-Potts, who covered the San Bernadino attack for the LA Times.

A longtime Pulitzer Poetry jury chair — and former Connecticut governor — issues a proclamation to celebrate 'the blessings that have been our common lot.'

The South Dakota Humanities Council commissioned essays on Pulitzer winners as part of its Centennial Campfire project. This interview with Fenn, who won the 2015 History prize,

Merriman Smith’s race to keep up with the story that began November 22, 1963.

Smith might have been the unhappiest reporter in President Kennedy’s motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963. He had split from his wife, he was broke, and United Press International, his employer, wouldn’t pay an advance for the trip because he was behind on his expense reports.

A collateral cost of being a felon – or of being obese, addicted, illiterate, undocumented, homeless, or on public assistance – is how easily your experiences will be discounted

In a column that helped him win a Pulitzer Prize, a critic puts the Brooklyn Bridge in historical perspective.

As part of the Pulitzer Centennial Campfires Initiative, University of Central Oklahoma students participated in an event with past prize winners and wrote up accounts of what they learned. Here, Manuelle Arias writes about LA Times photographer is Don Barletti's experience in Central America.

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