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Bancroft Prize Winners

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, 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.

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