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Annual American book award
The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established
Bancroft_Prize
American intellectual (1917–2007)
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (/ˈʃlɛsɪndʒər/ SHLESS-in-jər; born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian
Arthur_M._Schlesinger_Jr.
American historian (1860-1945)
Frederic Bancroft (October 30, 1860 – February 22, 1945) was an American historian, author, and librarian. The Bancroft Prize, one of the most distinguished
Frederic_Bancroft
American historian
America was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in History, a Bancroft Prize, the Cundill History Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize. DuVal was born in 1970. Her
Kathleen_DuVal
Discredited 2000 book
the book was awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 2001, it later became the first work for which the prize was rescinded, following a decision of
Arming_America
Native American history book by Kathleen DuVal
the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2025 Bancroft Prize, the 2025 Mark Lynton History Prize, and the 2024 Cundill History Prize. History of Native
Native_Nations
American historian (born 1943)
(2010) won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Lincoln Prize, and the Bancroft Prize. Foner previously won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for Reconstruction
Eric_Foner
American history professor
history during the twentieth century. In 2011, she was awarded the Bancroft Prize from Columbia University for her first book, Ourselves Unborn: A History
Sara_Dubow
American historian and author (born 1945)
Parkman Prize and shared the 1999 Ray Allen Billington Prize. His Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion won the 2024 Bancroft Prize
Elliott_West
2011 book by Daniel T. Rodgers
by Daniel T. Rodgers and published by Belknap Press. It won the 2012 Bancroft Prize. Boyer, Paul S. (July 2012). "The Big Picture and the Closeup: Two Perspectives
Age_of_Fracture
American historian
American historian of constitutional law, and a winner of the 2016 Bancroft Prize. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Harvard Law
Mary_Sarah_Bilder
American historian
the Bancroft Prize for his first book Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970), and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his
David_M._Kennedy_(historian)
American historian (born 1948)
University Bancroft Prize for Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery 2020: Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, Finalist
Joseph_P._Reidy
2018 book by David W. Blight
platforms. 2019 Bancroft Prize, winner 2019 Francis Parkman Prize, winner 2019 Lincoln Prize, winner 2019 Mark Lynton History Prize, shortlist 2019 Plutarch
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Frederick_Douglass:_Prophet_of_Freedom
2016 book by Andrés Reséndez
the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2016. Reséndez won the 2017 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy for The Other Slavery. Popular media
The_Other_Slavery
2020 non-fiction book by Claudio Saunt
eastern United States during the early 19th century. It was awarded the Bancroft Prize in American history, and was a finalist for the National Book Award
Unworthy_Republic
German-American historian
A Global History (2014), which won the 2015 Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History. The New York Times called it "one
Sven_Beckert
American historian (born 1949)
the Bancroft Prize and Frederick Douglass Prize for Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and the Pulitzer Prize and Lincoln Prize for Frederick
David_W._Blight
American historian (born 1955)
the early American Republic. Taylor has received two Pulitzer Prizes and the Bancroft Prize, and was also a finalist for the National Book Award for non-fiction
Alan_Taylor_(historian)
American historian (born 1972)
Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War won the 2009 Bancroft Prize and the 2009 George Perkins Marsh Prize. Andrews was born January 15, 1972. He graduated
Thomas_G._Andrews_(historian)
American historian (born 1966)
Phillip's War and its legacy; it was published in 1998 and was awarded the Bancroft Prize. In addition to her books and articles on history, in 2008 Lepore published
Jill_Lepore
American historian
Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History, which won the 2013 Bancroft Prize in history of the Americas and, in 2020, American Contagions: Epidemics
John_Fabian_Witt
Nonfiction book by Thomas J. Sugrue
has won multiple awards including Bancroft Prize in 1998. Origins of the Urban Crisis won the 1998 Bancroft Prize in American History, the 1996 Social
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
The_Origins_of_the_Urban_Crisis
Book by Paul Starr
Basic Books in 1982. It won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction as well as the Bancroft Prize. Capers Jones wrote, "Paul Starr's book detailed
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
The_Social_Transformation_of_American_Medicine
2010 book by Eric Foner
praised by critics and won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. In the preface to The Fiery Trial, Eric Foner
The_Fiery_Trial
American historian, author and academic
Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University. She was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 2017 for Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern
Nancy_Tomes
1972 book by Frances FitzGerald
it won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize for history, the National Book Award and the Hillman Prize. It was published in
Fire_in_the_Lake
1952 book by Bernard DeVoto
The Course of Empire is a 1952 book by the American journalist and historian Bernard DeVoto. It is the third volume of a trilogy that includes The Year
The Course of Empire (history book)
The_Course_of_Empire_(history_book)
Ongoing multi-volume narrative history of the United States
received the 1997 Bancroft Prize in American history, and Kennedy's Freedom from Fear also received the 2000 Francis Parkman Prize. When originally published
Oxford History of the United States
Oxford_History_of_the_United_States
1999 history book by John W. Dower
the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the 1999 National Book Award, the 2000 Bancroft Prize,, the 1999 John K. Fairbank Prize, the 2000 L.L. Winship/PEN
Embracing_Defeat
American historian
Andy Horowitz is an American historian and author. In 2021, he won a Bancroft Prize for his book Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 about the flooding caused
Andy_Horowitz
American historian (1933–2026)
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969) won the 1970 Bancroft Prize. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President
Gordon_S._Wood
University; recipient of Bancroft Prize (1995) Edward Countryman (M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1971) – historian and educator; recipient of Bancroft Prize (1982) Nancy F.
List of Cornell University alumni
List_of_Cornell_University_alumni
American historian (born 1938)
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the John K. Fairbank Prize of
John_W._Dower
are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize, Lakatos Award, National Medals of Humanities and Science, Bancroft Prize, Grammy Award, Guggenheim Fellowship
List of Graduate Center, CUNY faculty
List_of_Graduate_Center,_CUNY_faculty
1954 book by Paul Horgan
History is a book by Paul Horgan. It won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Bancroft Prize in 1955. "Great River: The Rio Grande in North American
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
Great_River:_The_Rio_Grande_in_North_American_History
American academic
and the Making of the Alien in America. In 2026, Lew-Williams won the Bancroft Prize for John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American
Beth_Lew-Williams
American historian (born 1962)
Historical Nonfiction. 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship for US History. 2018 Bancroft Prize. The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century
Louis_S._Warren
American biographer and educator (1936–2017)
2017) was an American biographer and educator. He won a Pulitzer Prize and a Bancroft Prize for his 1984 biography of Cotton Mather, The Life and Times of
Kenneth_Silverman
2022 book by Beverly Gage
received multiple prizes: the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize, the 2023 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
G-Man:_J._Edgar_Hoover_and_the_Making_of_the_American_Century
American historian
published Unruly Americans in 2007. Holton's Abigail Adams was awarded the Bancroft Prize for 2010. The book focuses on the role of creditors and bond speculators
Woody_Holton
American historian and educator (born 1945)
University of Virginia. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the Bancroft Prize for his book A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman
Melvyn_P._Leffler
American historian (born 1953)
Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His book, In the Presence of Mine Enemies, Civil War in the Heart of America, won the Bancroft Prize for distinguished writing
Edward_L._Ayers
American legal historian and law professor
books in modern American legal historiography. It won the Bancroft Prize, the preeminent prize in American history in the United States. A product of its
Morton_Horwitz
American historian
Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail, which won the 2013 Bancroft Prize in history of the Americas, and the 2013 Albert J. Beveridge Award.
W._Jeffrey_Bolster
American writer, translator, and critic (1922–2015)
She earlier assisted R. W. B. Lewis in researching his Pulitzer- and Bancroft-prize-winning 1976 biography of Wharton. She wrote the novels Murder in Pastiche:
Marion_Mainwaring
American historian and journalist (1886–1964)
American Magazines (1938) won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History, and Volume 4 won the Bancroft Prize in 1958. Mott served as president of Kappa Tau Alpha
Frank_Luther_Mott
British historian (born 1949)
slavery in the Americas. In 1999, he won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the
Philip_D._Morgan
American historian (1934–2020)
Fire won the Francis Parkman Prize in 1996, and William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism won the Bancroft Prize in 2007. In the first half
Robert_D._Richardson
American historian
history awards: the Bancroft Prize, Francis Parkman Prize, the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Frederick Douglass Prize (second prize). He is the Gable
James_F._Brooks
American historian (born 1935)
War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, won the 1967 Bancroft Prize. As of 2011, he was senior fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the
William_W._Freehling
American historian (1919–2002)
American Republic, 1788–1800 (1993) with Stanley Elkins, which won the Bancroft Prize in 1994. McKitrick was born in Battle Creek, Michigan. He graduated
Eric_McKitrick
American historian (born 1951)
Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. Wilentz was born on February 20, 1951
Sean_Wilentz
Topics referred to by the same term
Bancroft may refer to: Bancroft (surname) Bancroft, Idaho, a city Bancroft, Iowa, a city Bancroft, Kentucky, a home rule-class city Bancroft, Louisiana
Bancroft
Australian historian of Caribbean studies (born 1943)
During his career, Higman wrote multiple books, including the 1977 Bancroft Prize-winning work Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807–1834, before
B._W._Higman
American historian
American Studies" In 2019, Our Beloved Kin was one of the winners of the Bancroft Prize. There is a significant controversy around the veracity of Lisa Brooks'
Lisa_Brooks
American academic
Misplaced Massacre, won the 2014 Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Award, Tom Watson Brown Book Award, and Robert M. Utley Prize. Kelman received his Bachelor
Ari_Kelman
American historian
political process theory as a method of constitutional interpretation. 2005 Bancroft Prize Klarman, Michael J. (1994). "How Brown Changed Race Relations: The Backlash
Michael_Klarman
1974 book
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974) is a quantitative study of slavery by the economists Robert Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Time_on_the_Cross:_The_Economics_of_American_Negro_Slavery
American university press
press in the United States. Three of UNP's books have received the Bancroft Prize, the highest honor bestowed on history books in the U. S. Domestic distribution
University_of_Nebraska_Press
American historian (1944–2025)
Royal Historical Society L.H.D. Honoris Causa Manhattan College 1982 Bancroft Prize for A People in Revolution 1966–1971 Danforth Graduate Fellow 1966–1967
Edward_Countryman
American historian and author (born 1940)
emphasis on gender and family issues. She is a two-time recipient of the Bancroft Prize. Her best-known book is the 2009 biography, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond
Linda_Gordon
American historian (1916–2013)
(later Wohlstetter), also a historian and, like Edmund, a winner of the Bancroft Prize. In 1925, the family moved from Washington, D.C., to Arlington, Massachusetts
Edmund_Morgan_(historian)
American historian
laude, and from Yale University with an MA and Ph.D. in 1975. 1988 Bancroft Prize 2008 LGBT Award for Nonfiction from the Lambda Literary Foundation The
Michael_S._Sherry
History book series by Allan Nevins
Ordeal of the Union is an eight-volume series of books (published 1947–1971) on mid-19th century American history, and particularly on the American Civil
Ordeal_of_the_Union
American historian (1907–85)
of Michigan, for his book, Star of Empire. 1965 Bancroft Prize for his Portrait of a General (the prize has been generally considered to be among the most
William_B._Willcox
American historian
students Source: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2022 Bancroft Prize, 2022 Shelby Collum Davis for Historical Studies, Princeton University
Mae_Ngai
American historian and 12th Librarian of Congress (1914–2004)
Experience (1958) won the 1959 Bancroft Prize. The Society of American Historians awarded Boorstin the 1966 Francis Parkman Prize for The Americans: The National
Daniel_J._Boorstin
American historian (born 1942)
America 1999: Ellis W. Hawley Prize for Atlantic Crossings 1999: George Louis Beer Prize for Atlantic Crossings 2011: Bancroft Prize for Age of Fracture The
Daniel_T._Rodgers
American historian and academic (born 1941)
Fellowship 1980 – Fulbright Scholar to Finland 1973 – Bancroft Prize 1973 – National Historical Society Prize Library resources By John Lewis Gaddis Resources
John_Lewis_Gaddis
American historian (1941–2018)
1999 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University; 1999 Elliott Rudwick Prize of the Organization of American Historians; 1999 Frederick Douglass Prize for
Ira_Berlin
American historian (born 1941)
Century America, which won several prizes including the Joan Kelly Prize, the Philip Taft award, and the Bancroft Prize. Among her other fellowships and
Alice_Kessler-Harris
American publishing house
Journalists. John Doe Chinaman by Beth Lew-Williams was awarded the 2026 Bancroft Prize. Books portal Literature portal Massachusetts portal List of English-language
Harvard_University_Press
Finnish historian and academic (born 1967)
2008 book, The Comanche Empire, was positively reviewed and won the Bancroft Prize. In it, Hämäläinen argued that the Comanche occupation of the Southern
Pekka_Hämäläinen
American historian
Georgia Upcountry, 1850–1890 2004 Pulitzer Prize for History, for A Nation Under Our Feet 2004 Bancroft Prize, for A Nation Under Our Feet Merle Curti Award
Steven_Hahn
American historian
and Australia, 1880-1940. Her second book received one of three 2010 Bancroft Prizes and the 2011 Athearn Book Award. Two years later, Jacobs also received
Margaret_D._Jacobs
American historian
then joined the faculty of The College of New Jersey. He received the Bancroft Prize in 1977 for his book Class and Community. He wrote mainly on the US
Alan_Dawley
American biographer
1958, 1964), for which he received the Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, and he was a principal
Ernest_Samuels
American historian (born 1953)
colonial era, and is one of only five historians to be awarded the Bancroft Prize twice. He is the Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History Emeritus at
James_Merrell
American academic (1912–2007)
institute until 2002. In 1963, Columbia University awarded her the Bancroft Prize in American History. Wohlstetter taught at the University of Chicago
Roberta_Wohlstetter
Works relating to slavery in the United States
MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-81092-9. Bancroft Prize for American History, 1999 —— (2003). Generations of Captivity: A History
Bibliography of slavery in the United States
Bibliography_of_slavery_in_the_United_States
American journalist and historian
account of the Vietnam War. It was a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award. Frances FitzGerald was born in New York
Frances FitzGerald (journalist)
Frances_FitzGerald_(journalist)
American medical historian
of Medicine 2008 Bancroft Prize 2007 Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association and the Arthur Viseltear Prize from the American
Allan_M._Brandt
American historian
Jr. Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary. 2005 Bancroft Prize 1998–1999 Fulbright Professor of American Studies Israel on the Appomattox:
Melvin_Patrick_Ely
American historian and academic
1800–1860" — which won the 2012 Bancroft Prize, and the Caughey Western History Prize. This book was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in History. Professor
Anne_F._Hyde
American historian (1944–1995)
Institute for International Studies has been named in his honor. 1975 Bancroft Prize "America's 'New Thinking'", Foreign Policy, Fall, 1988 Alexander L.
Richard_Smoke
American historian (born 1957)
and Early American history, including issues of slavery. He won the Bancroft Prize in 2003 for his The Indian Slave Trade: the Rise of the English Empire
Alan_Gallay
American author
politics, including The Might of Nations, which received the distinguished Bancroft Prize for History. Stoessinger was also the Acting Director for the Political
John_G._Stoessinger
American historian
a Distinguished Professor of History at Binghamton University. 1980 Bancroft Prize 1980 Merle Curti Award 2000 Guggenhein Fellow 2006 Merle Curti Award
Thomas_Dublin
American historian and author (1897–1955)
the Wide Missouri was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History and the inaugural Bancroft Prize in 1948 and The Course of Empire received National
Bernard_DeVoto
American historian (1938–2009)
and the persistent stereotyping of Southerners. He was awarded the Bancroft Prize for his 2006 book Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South
Jack_T._Kirby
Norwegian historian (born 1960)
Interventions and the Making of Our Times, won the 2006 Bancroft Prize, the Michael Harrington Prize of the American Political Science Association, and the
Odd_Arne_Westad
University in Brighton and Hove, England
Society of Literature Prize, the Order of the British Empire and the Bancroft Prize. Alumni include heads of states, diplomats, politicians, eminent scientists
University_of_Sussex
A. Cremin – Pulitzer Prize for History, Bancroft Prize Justin Davidson – Pulitzer Prize for Criticism Bob Drogin – Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Will
List of Columbia University alumni and attendees
List_of_Columbia_University_alumni_and_attendees
American historian
Jackson. It received the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the 2021 Bancroft Prize. Unworthy Republic was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for
Claudio_Saunt
American historian (1943–2025)
comparisons with Russian serfdom and other forms of labor. Kolchin won the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Avery O. Craven Award for his book Unfree
Peter_Kolchin
2004 book
American historian Michael Klarman. It was a winner of the 2005 Bancroft Prize. "The Bancroft Prizes: Current & previous awards". Columbia University Libraries
From_Jim_Crow_to_Civil_Rights
American historian
the Pacific Ocean, and borderlands history. In 2017, Reséndez won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy for The Other Slavery: The Uncovered
Andrés_Reséndez
American historian (1925–2013)
Visiting Fellow, St. Catherine's College, Oxford 1994 Bancroft Prize 1995 Order of Cincinnatus Prize Stanley M. Elkins (1976). Slavery: A Problem in American
Stanley_Elkins
American historian and professor
University of Southern Mississippi. 1990 Bancroft Prize 1990 Gustavus Myers Prize 1990 McLemore Prize 1990 Pulitzer Prize finalist 2005 B. L. C. Wailes Award
Neil_R._McMillen
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Gitanjali | கீதாஂஜலி
Collection of pomes ir song, Tagores poems which got nobel prize, An offering of songs
Gitanjali | கீதாஂஜலி
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived at a place where bees were kept, from Middle English bee ‘bee’ + croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’, or a habitational name from some minor place named with these elements.
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Prize
Boy/Male
British, English
Pasture; Field of Beans
Boy/Male
British, English
Pasture
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Beecroft.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Prize, Honor
Boy/Male
English
From the bean field.
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English
English : unexplained.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Vaijayanthi | வைஜயஂதீ
Prize, A garland of Lord Vishnu
Vaijayanthi | வைஜயஂதீ
Boy/Male
English
Pasture; field.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various minor places called Bancroft, from Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) + croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’.John Bancroft came to MA on board the ‘James’ in 1632.
Surname or Lastname
English (also established in Ireland)
English (also established in Ireland) : habitational name from for example Barcroft in Haworth, West Yorkshire, so named with Old English bere ‘barley’ + croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’.This is the name of a family established in Ireland by William Barcroft (1612–96). They can be traced to the parish of Barcroft, Lancashire, in the reign of Henry III (1216–72).
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Bean Field
Girl/Female
Tamil
Vaijayanti | வைஜயஂதீ
Prize, A garland of Lord Vishnu
Vaijayanti | வைஜயஂதீ
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name from Middle English hay, hey ‘hay’ + croft ‘field attached to a house’, ‘paddock’, or a habitational name from a minor place named with these elements, such as Haycroft in Swyncombe, Oxfordshire or Haycroft in Gloucestershire.
Boy/Male
English
Pasture; field.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, English
From the Bean Field; Field of Beans
Girl/Female
Tamil
Geethanjali | கீதாஂஜலி
Collection of pomes ir song, Tagores poems which got nobel prize, An offering of songs
Geethanjali | கீதாஂஜலி
Girl/Female
Tamil
Geetanjali | கீதாஂஜலிÂ
Collection of pomes ir song, Tagores poems which got nobel prize, An offering of songs
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