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 in 1948 by a bequest from Frederic Bancroft. The prize is generally considered the most prestigious award in the field of American history writing and comes with a $10,000 stipend (raised from $4,000 beginning in 2004).
| Year | Book |
|---|---|
| 1948 | Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union. New York : Charles Scribner and Sons, 1947. |
| DeVoto, Bernard. Across the Wide Missouri. New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1947. | |
| 1949 | Sherwood, Robert E. Roosevelt and Hopkins. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1948. |
| Morison, Samuel E. The Rising Sun in the Pacific. New York : Little, Brown, 1948. | |
| 1950 | Gipson, Lawrence H. The Victorious Year, 1758–1760. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Vol. VII of The Great War for Empire. |
| Bolton, Herbert E. Coronado. Whittlesey House and the University of New Mexico Press, 1949. | |
| 1951 | Holcombe, Arthur N. Our More Perfect Union. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1950. |
| Smith, Henry N. Virgin Land. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1950. | |
| 1952 | Pusey, Merlo J. Charles Evans Hughes. New York : Macmillan, 1951. |
| Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877–1913. Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana State University Press, 1951. | |
| 1953 | Dangerfield, George. The Era of Good Feelings. New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1952. |
| Goldman, Eric F. Rendezvous with Destiny. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. | |
| 1954 | Rossiter, Clinton. Seedtime of the Republic. New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1953. |
| Langer, William L. and S. Everett Gleason. The Undeclared War. New York : Harper & Bros., 1953. | |
| 1955 | Horgan, Paul. Great River, The Rio Grande. Rinehart, 1954. |
| White, Leonard D. The Jacksonians. New York : Macmillan, 1954. | |
| 1956 | Stevenson, Elizabeth. Henry Adams. New York : Macmillan, 1955. |
| Randall, J. G. and Richard N. Current. Last Full Measure: Lincoln the President. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1955. | |
| 1957 | Kennan, George F. Russia Leaves the War. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1956. |
| Link, Arthur S. Wilson: The New Freedom. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1956. | |
| 1958 | Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Crisis of the Old Order. New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1957. |
| Mott, Frank Luther. A History of American Magazines. Vol. 4. Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957. | |
| 1959 | Samuels, Ernest. Henry Adams, The Middle Years. Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958. |
| Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The Colonial Experience. New York : Random House, 1958. | |
| 1960 | Palmer, R. R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1959. |
| Leech, Margaret. In the Days of McKinley. New York : Harper & Bros., 1959. | |
| 1961 | Peterson, Merrill D. The Jefferson Image in the American Mind. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1960. |
| Link, Arthur S. Wilson: The Struggle for Neutrality, 1914–1915. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1960. | |
| 1962 | Cremin, Lawrence A. The Transformation of the School. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. |
| Gilbert, Felix To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1961. | |
| Duberman, Martin B. Charles Francis Adams, 1807–1866. New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1961. | |
| 1963 | Smith, Page. John Adams. New York : Doubleday, 1962. |
| Wohlstetter, Roberta. Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. Palo Alto, CA : Stanford University Press, 1962. | |
| Stoessinger, John G. The Might of Nations: World Politics in Our Time. New York : Random House, 1962. | |
| 1964 | Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940. New York : Harper & Row, 1963. |
| Thomas, John L. The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison. New York : Little, Brown, 1963. | |
| Seabury, Paul. Power, Freedom, and Diplomacy: The Foreign Policy of the United States of America. New York : Random House, 1963. | |
| 1965 | Perkins, Bradford. Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812–1823. Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 1964. |
| Willcox, William B. Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. | |
| Borg, Dorothy. The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1933–1938. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1964. | |
| 1966 | Morris, Richard B. The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence. New York : Harper & Row, 1965. |
| Friend, Theodore W., III. Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929–1946. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1965. | |
| 1967 | Freehling, William W. Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816–1836. New York : Harper & Row, 1966. |
| Sellers, Charles. James K. Polk, Continentalist, 1843–1846. Vol. II. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1966. | |
| Young, James Sterling. The Washington Community, 1800–1828. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1966. | |
| 1968 | Bullock, Henry Allen. A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1967. |
| Bushman, Richard L. From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690–1765. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1967. | |
| Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967. | |
| 1969 | Jordan, Winthrop D. White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1968. |
| Levin, N. Gordon, Jr. Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1968. | |
| Tugwell, Rexford Guy. The Brains Trust. New York : The Viking Press, 1968. | |
| 1970 | Sellers, Charles. Charles Willson Peale. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969.[1] |
| Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1969. | |
| Carter, Dan T. Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South. Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana State University Press, 1969. | |
| 1971 | Barnouw, Erik. The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States from 1953. Vol. III. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1970. |
| Kennedy, David M. Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1970. | |
| Wall, Joseph Frazier. Andrew Carnegie. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1970. | |
| 1972 | Degler, Carl N. Neither Black Nor White. New York : Macmillan, 1971. |
| Middlekauff, Robert. The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596–1728. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1971. | |
| Morison, Samuel E.. The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1971. | |
| 1973 | FitzGerald, Frances. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. Boston : Atlantic, Little, Brown, 1972. |
| Gaddis, John Lewis. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War. New York : Columbia University Press, 1972. | |
| Harlan, Louis R.. Booker T. Washington. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1972. | |
| 1974 | Billington, Ray Allen. Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1973. |
| Hoopes, Townsend. The Devil and John Foster Dulles. Boston : Atlantic, Little, Brown, 1973. | |
| Thernstrom, Stephan. The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1973. | |
| 1975 | Fogel, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery and Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods. Boston : Atlantic, Little, Brown, 1974. |
| George, Alexander L. and Richard Smoke. Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice. New York : Columbia University Press, 1974. | |
| Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan, Roll. New York : Pantheon, 1974. | |
| 1976 | Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1975. |
| Lewis, R. W. B. Edith Wharton: A Biography. New York : Harper & Row, 1975. | |
| 1977 | Dawley, Alan. Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1976. |
| Gross, Robert A. The Minutemen and Their World. New York : Hill and Wang, 1976. | |
| Higman, Barry W. Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807–1834. Cambridge, Eng. : Cambridge University Press, 1976. | |
| 1978 | Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1977. |
| Horwitz, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1977. | |
| 1979 | Thorne, Christopher. Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War Against Japan, 1941–1945. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1978. |
| Wallace, Anthony F. C. Rockdale: The Growth of An American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution. New York : Alfred Knopf, 1978. | |
| 1980 | Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1979. |
| Dublin, Thomas. Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826–1860. New York : Columbia University Press, 1979. | |
| Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1979. | |
| 1981 | Steel, Ronald. Walter Lipmann and the American Century. New York : Little, Brown, 1980. |
| Strouse, Jean. Alice James: A Biography. New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1980. | |
| 1982 | Countryman, Edward. A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760–1790. Baltimore, MD : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. |
| Ryan, Mary P. Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790–1865. Cambridge, Eng. : Cambridge University Press, 1981. | |
| 1983 | Demos, John Putnam. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1982. |
| Salvatore, Nick. Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist. Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press, 1982. | |
| 1984 | Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1982. |
| Starr, Paul. The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry. New York : Basic Books, 1983. | |
| 1985 | Lebsock, Suzanne. The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784–1860. New York : Norton, 1984. |
| Silverman, Kenneth. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather. New York : Harper & Row, 1984. | |
| 1986 | Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1985. |
| Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present. New York : Basic Books, 1985. | |
| 1987 | Doerflinger, Thomas. A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1986. |
| Lane, Roger. Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860–1900. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1986. | |
| 1988 | Sherry, Michael S. The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1987. |
| Kolchin, Peter. Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1987. | |
| 1989 | Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. New York : Harper & Row, 1988. |
| Morgan, Edmund S. Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America. New York : W. W. Norton, 1988. | |
| 1990 | Merrell, James H. The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1989. |
| McMillen, Neil R. Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press, 1989. | |
| 1991 | Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939. Cambridge, Eng. : Cambridge University Press, 1990. |
| Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. | |
| 1992 | Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York : W. W. Norton, 1991. |
| Royster, Charles. The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. | |
| 1993 | Capper, Charles. The Private Years. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1992. Vol. 1 of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. |
| Leffler, Melvyn P. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Palo Alto, CA : Stanford University Press, 1992. | |
| 1994 | Elkins, Stanley and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1993. |
| Jordan, Winthrop D. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy. Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana State University Press, 1993. | |
| Lewis, David Levering. W. E. B. DuBois: The Biography of a Race, 1868–1919. New York : Henry Holt, 1993. | |
| 1995 | Brooke, John L. The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844. Cambridge, Eng. : Cambridge University Press, 1994. |
| Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press, 1994. | |
| 1996 | Taylor, Alan. William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. |
| Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. | |
| 1997 | Kyvig, David E. Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776–1795. Lawrence, KS : University of Kansas Press, 1996. |
| Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1996. | |
| 1998 | Heyrman, Christine Leigh. Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. |
| LaFeber, Walter. The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations. New York : W. W. Norton, 1997. | |
| Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1997. | |
| 1999 | Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1998. |
| Morgan, Philip D. A Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Low Country. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1998. | |
| Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. | |
| 2000 | Merrell, James H. Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the American Frontier. New York : W. W. Norton, 1999. |
| Dower, John Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York : W. W. Norton and The New Press, 1999. | |
| Gordon, Linda. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1999. | |
| 2001 | Bellesiles, Michael. Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. (Award rescinded in 2002 because of scholarly misconduct by the author.) |
| Johnson, Susan Lee. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush. New York : W. W. Norton, 2000. | |
| Nasaw, David. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2000. | |
| 2002 | Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. |
| Kessler-Harris, Alice. In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 2001. | |
| 2003 | Brooks, James F. Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2002. |
| Gallay, Alan. The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2002. | |
| 2004 | Ayers, Edward L. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859–1863. New York : W. W. Norton, 2003. |
| Hahn, Steven. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. | |
| Marsden, George M. Jonathan Edwards: A Life. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2003. | |
| 2005 | Ely, Melvin Patrick. Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. |
| Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 2004. | |
| O'Brien, Michael. Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810–1860. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2004. | |
| 2006 | Clarke, Erskine. Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2005. |
| Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. | |
| Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York : W. W. Norton, 2005. | |
| 2007 | Kirby, Jack Temple. Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2006. |
| Richardson, Robert D.. William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism. Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 2006. | |
| 2008 | Brandt, Allan M. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. New York : Basic Books, 2007. |
| Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision. New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. | |
| Silver, Peter. Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. New York : W. W. Norton, 2007. | |
| 2009 | Andrews, Thomas G. Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2008. |
| Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. | |
| Hämäläinen, Pekka. The Comanche Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. |
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