Bancroft Prize Winners

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 establ...more

Winners

	Age of Fracture by Daniel T. Rodgers 4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings Bancroft Prize (2012)	My rating:
	Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings Bancroft Prize (2012)	My rating:
	Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 by Anne F. Hyde 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings Bancroft Prize (2012)	My rating:
	The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner 4.09 avg rating — 431 ratings Bancroft Prize (2011)	My rating:
	Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580 1865 by Christopher Tomlins 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings Bancroft Prize (2011)	My rating:
	Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America by Sara Dubow 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings Bancroft Prize (2011)	My rating:
	Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon 3.99 avg rating — 98 ratings Bancroft Prize (2010)	My rating:
	Abigail Adams by Woody Holton 3.75 avg rating — 303 ratings Bancroft Prize (2010)	My rating:
	White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 by Margaret D. Jacobs 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings Bancroft Prize (2010)	My rating:
	The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen 4.24 avg rating — 93 ratings Bancroft Prize (2009)	My rating:
	Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War by Thomas G. Andrews 3.64 avg rating — 70 ratings Bancroft Prize (2009)	My rating:
	This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust 3.91 avg rating — 1,272 ratings Bancroft Prize (2009)	My rating:
	The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America by Allan M. Brandt 3.99 avg rating — 95 ratings Bancroft Prize (2008)	My rating:
	Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America by Peter Silver 3.50 avg rating — 52 ratings Bancroft Prize (2008)	My rating:
	The Populist Vision by Charles Postel 3.38 avg rating — 29 ratings Bancroft Prize (2008)	My rating:
	William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson 4.23 avg rating — 142 ratings Bancroft Prize (2007)	My rating:
	Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South by Jack Temple Kirby 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings Bancroft Prize (2007)	My rating:
	The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times by Odd Arne Westad 3.90 avg rating — 88 ratings Bancroft Prize (2006)	My rating:
	The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz 4.00 avg rating — 221 ratings Bancroft Prize (2006)	My rating:
	Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic by Erskine Clarke 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings Bancroft Prize (2006)	My rating:
	From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Michael J. Klarman 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings Bancroft Prize (2005)	My rating:
	Conjectures of Order Set: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860 by Michael O'Brien 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings Bancroft Prize (2005)	My rating:
	Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War by Melvin Patrick Ely 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings Bancroft Prize (2005)	My rating:
	In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America 1859-1863 by Edward L. Ayers 3.88 avg rating — 98 ratings Bancroft Prize (2004)	My rating:
	A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn 3.97 avg rating — 89 ratings Bancroft Prize (2004)	My rating:
	Jonathan Edwards by George M. Marsden 4.42 avg rating — 276 ratings Bancroft Prize (2004)	My rating:
	The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise Of The English Empire In The American South, 1670-1717 by Alan Gallay 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings Bancroft Prize (2003)	My rating:
	Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks 3.42 avg rating — 45 ratings Bancroft Prize (2003)	My rating:
	Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight 4.12 avg rating — 249 ratings Bancroft Prize (2002)	My rating:
	In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America by Alice Kessler-Harris 3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings Bancroft Prize (2002)	My rating: