Video: 'The Pulitzer Prizes at 100'

(Monday, June 4, 1917) — The first Pulitzer Prizes for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States were awarded today.

Herbert Bayard Swope of the New York World was recognized for a series of articles, “Inside the German Empire”; the New York Tribune for an editorial on the one-year anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania; Jean Jules Jusserand for his book With Americans of Past and Present Days; and Laura E. Richards, Maude Howe Elliott and Florence Howe Hall for their biography about Julia Ward Howe.