The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.

New York World
Journalism
Herbert B. Swope
With Americans of Past and Present Days
History
Jean Jules Jusserand
Julia Ward Howe
Biography
Maude H. Elliott
Laura E. Richards
Pulitzer Prize