Friday, September 27, 2024

Bancroft Prize: history and diplomacy


The Bancroft Prize is awarded annually 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 (1860-1945), a historian, author and librarian. The prize awarded to Michael A. Bellesiles in 2001 was rescinded in 2002, after Columbia’s trustees concluded that Bellesiles had "violated basic norms of scholarship and the high standards expected of Bancroft Prize winners." That marked the first time the prize has ever been rescinded.

2024
Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion, by Elliott West

Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia, by Carolyn Woods Eisenberg

2023
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands, by Kelly Lytle Hernández

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, by Beverly Gage

The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America, by John Wood Sweet

2022
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, by Mia Bay

The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics, by Mae Ngai

2021
Katrina: A History, 1915-2015, by Andy Horowitz

Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, by Claudio Saunt

2020
Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, by Lizabeth Cohen

Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery, by Joseph P. Reidy

2019
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David Blight

Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War, by Lisa Brooks

2018
Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945, by Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio


God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America, by Louis S. Warren


Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England, by Douglas L. Winiarski

2017
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Slavery in America, by Andres Resendez


Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, by Heather Ann Thompson


Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients Into Consumers, by Nancy Tomes

2016
Madison's Hand: Revisiting the Constitutional Convention, by Mary Sarah Bilder

Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood, by Deborah Rosen


The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast, by Andrew Lipman

2015
Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert

The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, by Greg Grandin

2014
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek, by Ari Kelman

Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, by Ira Katznelson

2013
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail, by W. Jeffrey Bolster

Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History, by John Fabian Witt

2012
Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860, by Anne Hyde

Age of Fracture, by Daniel Rodgers

Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, by Tomiko Brown-Nagin

2011
Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America, by Sara Dubow

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner

Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865, by Christopher Tomlins

2010
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, by Linda Gordon

Abigail Adams, by Woody Holton

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

2009
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, by Thomas G. Andrews

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust

The Comanche Empire, by Pekka Hämäläinen

2008
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America, by Allan M. Brandt


The Populist Vision, by Charles Postel


Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America, by Peter Silver

2007
Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South, by Jack Temple Kirby


William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, by Robert D. Richardson

2006
Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic, by Erskine Clarke


The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, by Odd Arne Westad


The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, by Sean Wilentz

2005
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War, by Melvin Patrick Ely


From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Michael J. Karman


Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810–1860, by Michael O’Brien

2004
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859–1863, by Edward L. Ayers


A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, by Steven Hahn


Jonathan Edwards: A Life, by George M. Marsden

2003
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands, by James F. Brooks


The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717, by Alan Gallay

2002
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, by David W. Blightk


In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America, by Alice Kessler-Harris

2001
Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, by Michael Bellesiles (This award was rescinded in 2002.)
 

Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush, by Susan Lee Johnson
 

The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, by David Nasaw

2000
Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the American Frontier, by  James H. Merrell


Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, by John Dower


The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, by Linda Gordon


1999
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, by Ira Berlin


Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Low Country, by Philip D. Morgan


The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, by Jill Lepore

1998
Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, by Christine Leigh Heyrman


The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations, by Walter LaFeber


The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, by Thomas J. Sugrue

1997
Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776–1995, by David E. Kyvig


Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974, by James T. Patterson

1996
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, by Alan Taylor


Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, by David S. Reynolds

1995
The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844, by John L. Brooke


Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, by John Dittmer

1994
The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800, by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick


Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy, by Winthrop D. Jordan


W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919, by David Levering Lewis

1993
The Private Years, Vol. 1 of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, by Charles Capper


A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War, by Melvyn P. Leffler

1992
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, by William Cronon


The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans, by Charles Royster

1991
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939, by Lizabeth Cohen


A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

1990
The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal, by James H. Merrell


Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow, by Neil R. McMillen

1989
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, by Eric Foner


Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America, by Edmund S. Morgan

1988
The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon, by Michael S. Sherry


Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom, by Peter Kolchin

1987
A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia, by Thomas Doerflinger


Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860–1900, by Roger Lane

1986
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, by Kenneth T. Jackson


Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present, by Jacqueline Jones

1985
The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784–1860, by Suzanne Lebsock


The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, by Kenneth Silverman

1984
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915, by Louis R. Harlan


The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry, by Paul Starr

1983
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England, by John Putnam Demos


Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist, by Nick Salvatore

1982
A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760–1790, by Edward Countryman


Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790–1865, by Mary P. Ryan

1981
Walter Lipmann and the American Century, by Ronald Steel


Alice James: A Biography, by Jean Strouse

1980
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945, by Robert Dallek


Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826–1860, by Thomas Dublin


Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, by Donald Worster

1979
Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War Against Japan, 1941–1945, by Christopher Thorne


Rockdale: The Growth of An American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution, by Anthony F.C. Wallace

1978
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.


The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860, by Morton J. Horwitz

1977
Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn, by Alan Dawley


The Minutemen and Their World, by Robert A. Gross


Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807–1834, by Barry W. Higman

1976
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823, by David Brion Davis


Edith Wharton: A Biography, by R.W.B. Lewis

1975
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery and Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods, by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman


Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, by Alexander L. George and Richard Smoke


Roll, Jordan, Roll, by Eugene Genovese

1974
Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher, by Ray Allen Billington


The Devil and John Foster Dulles, by Townsend Hoopes


The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970, by Stephan Thernstrom

1973
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, by Frances FitzGerald


The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, by John Lewis Gaddis

Booker T. Washington, by Louis R. Harlan

1972
Neither Black Nor White, by Carl N. Degler


The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596–1728, by Robert Middlekauff


The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, by Samuel E. Morison

1971
The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States from 1953, Vol. III, by Erik Barnouw


Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David M. Kennedy


Andrew Carnegie, by Joseph Frazier Wall

1970
Charles Willson Peale, by Charles Sellers


The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787, by Gordon S. Wood


Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, by Dan T. Carter

1969
White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812, by Winthrop D. Jordan


Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution, by N. Gordon Levin Jr.


The Brains Trust, by Rexford Guy Tugwell

1968
A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present, by Henry Allen Bullock


From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690–1765, by Richard L. Bushman


The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn

1967
Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816–1836, by William W. Freehling


James K. Polk, Continentalist, 1843–1846, Vol. II, by Charles Sellers


The Washington Community, 1800–1828, by James Sterling Young

1966
The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence, by Richard B. Morris


Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929–1946, by Theodore W. Friend III

1965
Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812–1823, by Bradford Perkins


Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence, by William B. Willcox


The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1933–1938, by Dorothy Borg

1964
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940, by William E. Leuchtenburg


The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison, by John L. Thomas


Power, Freedom, and Diplomacy: The Foreign Policy of the United States of America, by Paul Seabury

1963

John Adams, by Page Smith

Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision, by Roberta Wohlstetter


The Might of Nations: World Politics in Our Time, by John G. Stoessinger

1962
The Transformation of the School, by Lawrence A. Cremin


To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy, by Felix Gilbert


Charles Francis Adams, 1807–1866, by Martin B. Duberman

1961
The Jefferson Image in the American Mind, by Merrill D. Peterson


Wilson: The Struggle for Neutrality, 1914–1915, by Arthur S. Link

1960
The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800, by  R.R. Palmer


In the Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech

1959
Henry Adams, The Middle Years, by Ernest Samuels


The Americans: The Colonial Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin

1958
The Crisis of the Old Order, by Arthur M. Schlesinger


A History of American Magazines. Vol. 4., by Frank Luther Mott

1957
Russia Leaves the War, by George F. Kennan


Wilson: The New Freedom, by Arthur S. Link

1956
Henry Adams, by Elizabeth Stevenson


Last Full Measure: Lincoln the President, by J.G. Randall and Richard N. Current

1955
Great River, The Rio Grande, by Paul Horgan


The Jacksonians, by Leonard D. White

1954
Seedtime of the Republic, by Clinton Rossiter


The Undeclared War, by William L. Langer and S. Everett Gleason

1953
The Era of Good Feelings, by George Dangerfield


Rendezvous with Destiny, by Eric F. Goldman

1952
Charles Evans Hughes, by Merlo J. Pusey


Origins of the New South, 1877–1913, by C. Vann Woodward

1951
Our More Perfect Union, by Arthur N. Holcombe


Virgin Land, by Henry N. Smith

1950
The Victorious Year, 1758–1760, Vol. VII of The Great War for Empire, by Lawrence H. Gipson


Coronado, by Herbert E. Bolton

1949
Roosevelt and Hopkins, by Robert E. Sherwood


The Rising Sun in the Pacific, by Samuel E. Morison

1948
Ordeal of the Union, by Allan Nevins


Across the Wide Missouri, by Bernard DeVoto

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