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Encyclopedia > Bancroft Prize

The Bancroft Prize was established in 1948 with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft and is awarded by Columbia University for books about diplomacy or about the history of the Americas which were first published the year before. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... The historian Frederic Bancroft (1860–1945) was born in Illinois and studied at Amherst College and Columbia University. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ... The United Nations, with its headquarters in New York City, is the largest international diplomatic organization. ... World map showing the Americas The Americas commonly refers to the landmass in the Western Hemisphere consisting of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. ...

Past winners of the Bancroft Prize
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 Wilson Peale. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969.
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, Mervyn 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 Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York : Norton, 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.
Clarke, Eskine. Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2005.

Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 - March 5, 1971) was an educator, historian, and author and journalist. ... Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 - November 13, 1955) was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West. ... Robert Emmet Sherwood (4 April 1896–14 November 1955) American playwright, editor, and screenwriter. ... Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR (July 9, 1887 - May 15, 1976) was an American historian, notable for producing both authoritative scholarship and highly readable, an ability recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes. ... Lawrence Henry Gipson (1880–September 26, 1971) was a U.S. historian, who won the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for History. ... Herbert Eugene Bolton, history professor and first Director of the Bancroft Library Herbert Eugene Bolton (July 20, 1870–January 30, 1953) was an American historian and one of the most prominent authorities in Spanish-American history. ... Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 - December 17, 1999) was a preeminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. ... Journalist/writer. ... Clinton Rossiter wrote The American Presidency along with 20 other books on American institutions. ... William Leonard Langer Ph. ... Paul Horgan was an American author of fiction and non-fiction, most of which was set in the Southwestern United States. ... George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as the father of containment and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. ... Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ... Daniel J. Boorstin Daniel J. Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004), a Jewish-American historian and writer, was the Librarian of Congress from 1975 until 1987. ... Margaret Kernochan Leech (1893-1974) was an American author and historian, who won two Pulitzer Prizes in history, for her books Reveille in Washington (1942) and In the Days of McKinley (1960). ... Lawrence A. Cremin is a Pulitzer Prize winning author of the History of American Education. ... John G.Stoessinger ... It has been suggested that The Peopling of British North America be merged into this article or section. ... Rexford Guy Tugwell (July 10, 1891 - July 21, 1979) was an agricultural economist who became part of Franklin D. Roosevelts Brains Trust, a group of Columbia academics who helped develop policy recommendations leading up to Roosevelts 1932 election as President. ... Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. ... Erik Barnouw (*1908, in Den Haag; † 2001 in Fair Haven, Vermont, USA) was an american media historian. ... For the politician, see David M. Kennedy. ... Joseph Frazier Wall was an American historian and professor of history at Grinnell College. ... Carl N. Degler (born 1921), is an American historian. ... Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR (July 9, 1887 - May 15, 1976) was an American historian, notable for producing both authoritative scholarship and highly readable, an ability recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes. ... See also Frances Fitzgerald (Irish politician) Frances FitzGerald (born 1940) is an American journalist best known for her work Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972). ... President George W. Bush and Laura Bush stand with 2005 National Humanities Medal recipient John Lewis Gaddis. ... Townsend Walter Hoopes II was an American who reached the height of his career as Under Secretary of Defense for the Air Force from 1967 to 1969. ... Robert William Fogel (born July 1, 1926) is an American economic historian and scientist, and Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel winner in 1993 (with Douglass North). ... Alexander L. George (b. ... Eugence Dominic Genosvese (May 19, 1930-) was formally a Marxist and historian of the American South. ... Richard W. B. Lewis (1917- June 13, 2002) was an American literary scholar and critic. ... Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. ... Robert Dallek Robert Dallek, born May 16 1934, is a prominent American historian with a specialism of American Presidents. ... Jean Strouse (b. ... Kenneth T. Jackson (b. ... Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943 in New York City) is the Dewitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. ... Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in Harvard Universitys history department. ... Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, an American professor, historian and author, received a 1991 Pulitzer Prize in history for A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her diary, 1785–1812. ... WILLIAM CRONON studies American environmental history and the history of the American West. ... Stanley M. Elkins is As of 2004 the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor Emeritus of history at Smith College. ... Alan Taylor, historian and author of books about early American history, including Colonial America, the American Revolution, and the Early American Republic. ... Walter LaFeber (born 1933, Walkerton, Indiana) is Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History at Cornell University. ... For the historian, see John W. Dower. ... Michael Bellesiles is the author of Arming America: Origins of a National Gun Culture, a book which ignited passions on both sides of the gun control debate with its central argument: that guns were uncommon in early America and were of little use. ... 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The Bancroft Prizes: Description & Guidelines (342 words)
The Bancroft Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University in the City of New York.
Previous winners of the Bancroft Prize are eligible for an award in a later year.
Works submitted in competition may be sent to: Attention: Bancroft Prize Committee, Columbia University, c/o The Office of the University Librarian, 517 Butler Library, Mail Code 1101, 535 West 114th Street, New York, NY 10027, preferably as published, but in no case later than November 1, 2005.
Columbia News ::: Three Authors Honored with Bancroft Prizes (1082 words)
The Bancroft Prize, one of the most distinguished awards in the field of history, is presented annually to the authors of books of exceptional merit and distinction in the fields of American history and biography.
He is the recipient of the 2001 The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, also for The Chief.
The Bancroft Prizes were established at Columbia in 1948 with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, the historian, author and librarian of the Department of State, to provide steady development of library resources, to support instruction and research in American history and diplomacy and to recognize exceptional books in the field.
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