History Professors Win 2008 Pulitzer Prizes

From the UCLA Newsroom:  Professor of history Saul Friedlander, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for the second volume of his seminal work, "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945."  Friedlander, holder of UCLA's 1939 Club Chair in Holocaust Studies, is considered one of the world's premier historians in the field and his books the definitive work on Jews during the Third Reich.  Emeritus professor Daniel Walker Howe won the Pulitzer in history for "What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848."  They are the second and third UCLA faculty scholars to receive Pulitzer prizes for their books.  Professor Jared Diamond won in 1998 for "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies."  More from UCLA Today.