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

	The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae M. Ngai 4.11 avg rating — 138 ratings Bancroft Prize (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia Bay 4.29 avg rating — 108 ratings Bancroft Prize (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 by Andy Horowitz 4.31 avg rating — 176 ratings Bancroft Prize (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt 4.23 avg rating — 1,439 ratings Bancroft Prize (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery by Joseph P. Reidy 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings Bancroft Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age by Lizabeth Cohen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 115 ratings Bancroft Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight 4.13 avg rating — 10,760 ratings Bancroft Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) by Lisa Brooks 4.15 avg rating — 271 ratings Bancroft Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England by Douglas L. Winiarski 4.33 avg rating — 36 ratings Bancroft Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God's Red Son: the Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America by Louis S. Warren 4.27 avg rating — 128 ratings Bancroft Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 by Waldo Heinrichs 4.02 avg rating — 114 ratings Bancroft Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers by Nancy Tomes 3.92 avg rating — 38 ratings Bancroft Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 4,159 ratings Bancroft Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez 4.06 avg rating — 1,694 ratings Bancroft Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast by Andrew Lipman 3.93 avg rating — 133 ratings Bancroft Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Mary Sarah Bilder 3.77 avg rating — 47 ratings Bancroft Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Border Law by Deborah A. Rosen 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings Bancroft Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World by Greg Grandin (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 863 ratings Bancroft Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert 3.87 avg rating — 3,068 ratings Bancroft Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek by Ari Kelman (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 348 ratings Bancroft Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time by Ira Katznelson 3.96 avg rating — 690 ratings Bancroft Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster 4.07 avg rating — 143 ratings Bancroft Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History by John Fabian Witt really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 212 ratings Bancroft Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin 3.98 avg rating — 53 ratings Bancroft Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Age of Fracture by Daniel T. Rodgers 3.98 avg rating — 381 ratings Bancroft Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 by Anne F. Hyde 4.07 avg rating — 196 ratings Bancroft Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865 by Christopher Tomlins 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings Bancroft Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America by Sara Dubow 3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings Bancroft Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner 4.17 avg rating — 6,116 ratings Bancroft Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon 4.10 avg rating — 544 ratings Bancroft Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars