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AAS Members Who Have Won A Bancroft Prize

1948

   Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union
    Bernard DeVeto, Across the Wide Missouri
     

1949

   Samuel Eliot Morison, The Rising Sun in the Pacific
     

1953

   Herbert E. Bolton, Coronado
    Lawrence H. Gipson, Volume III, The Victorious Years, 1758-1760, of the series titled The Great War for the Empire
     

1951

   Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land
     

1952

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

1953

   George Dangerfield, The Era of Good Feelings
     

1954

   Clinton Rossiter, Seedtime of the Republic
     

1955

   Paul Horgan, Great River, The Rio Grande
     

1958

   Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines, Volume IV
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order
     

1959

   Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans; The Colonial Experience
     

1961

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

1962

   Lawrence A. Cremin, The Transformation of the School
     

1965

   Bradford Perkins, Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812-1823
    William B. Willcox, Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence
     

1966

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

1967

   William W. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War. The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836
     

1968

   Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
    Richard L. Bushman, From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765
     

1969

   Winthrop D. Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
     

1970

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

1972

   Carl N. Degler, Neither Black nor White
    Robert L. Middlekauf, The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellect 1596-1728
    Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages
     

1974

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

1975

   Eugene Genovese, Roll Jordan, Roll
     

1976

   David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
     

1977

   Robert A. Gross, The Minutemen and Their World
     

1978

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

1979

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

1980

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

1982

   Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865
Edward Countryman , The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790
     

1983

   John Putman Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
     

1985

   Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
     

1986

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

1987

   Thomas Doerflinger, A Victorian Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia
     

1989

   Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution: 1863-1877
    Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America
     

1990

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

1991

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

1992

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

1994

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

1995

   John L. Brooke, The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-I844
     

1996

   David S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography
    Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
     

1998

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

1999

   Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
    Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in The Eighteenth Century Chesapeake and Low Country
     

2000

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

2002

   David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
     

2003

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

2004

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

2009

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

Additional Information

The Bancroft Prize has been awarded annually by Columbia University since 1948.