AAS Members Who Have Won A Bancroft Prize
Members —who currently number over one thousand individuals—are elected by their colleagues in recognition of their eminent works of scholarship, artistic endeavors, or public engagement in pre-twentieth-century American history and culture.
The Bancroft Prize has been awarded annually by Columbia University since 1948.
- 2023 Kelly Lytle Hernández, Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands
- 2022 Mia Bay, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistances
- 2022 Mae Ngai, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
- 2019 David Blight, Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom
- 2019 Lisa Brooks, Our Beloved Kin
- 2018 Douglas L. Winiarski, Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England
- 2016 Mary Sarah Bilder, Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
- 2015 Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History
- 2011 Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
- 2010 Woody Holton, Abigail Adams
- 2009 Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
- 2008 Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire
- 2006 Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
- 2005 Michael O'Brien, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860
- 2004 Edward L. Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863
- 2003 James F. Brooks, Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
- 2002 David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
- 2000 James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
- 1999 Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
- 1999 Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
- 1999 Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in The Eighteenth Century Chesapeake and Low Country
- 1998 Christine Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
- 1996 David S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography
- 1996 Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
- 1995 John L. Brooke, The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-I844
- 1994 Winthrop D. Jordan, Tumult and Silence at Second Creek. An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy
- 1992 William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
- 1991 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on her Diary, 1785-1812
- 1990 James H. Merrell, The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal
- 1989 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution: 1863-1877
- 1989 Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America
- 1987 Thomas Doerflinger, A Victorian Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia
- 1986 Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
- 1986 Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present
- 1985 Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
- 1983 John Putman Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
- 1982 Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865
- 1982 Edward Countryman , The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790
- 1980 Thomas Dublin, Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860
- 1979 Anthony F.C. Wallace, Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution
- 1978 Alfred D. Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
- 1977 Robert A. Gross, The Minutemen and Their World
- 1976 David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
- 1975 Eugene Genovese, Roll Jordan, Roll
- 1974 Ray Allen Billington, Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher
- 1972 Carl N. Degler, Neither Black nor White
- 1972 Robert L. Middlekauff, The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellect 1596-1728
- 1972 Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages
- 1970 Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
- 1969 Winthrop D. Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
- 1968 Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
- 1968 Richard L. Bushman, From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765
- 1967 William W. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War. The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836
- 1966 Richard B. Morris, The Peacemakers The Great Powers and American Independence
- 1965 Bradford Perkins, Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812-1823
- 1965 William B. Willcox, Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence
- 1962 Lawrence A. Cremin, The Transformation of the School
- 1961 Merrill D. Peterson, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind
- 1959 Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans; The Colonial Experience
- 1958 Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines, Volume IV
- 1958 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order
- 1955 Paul Horgan, Great River, The Rio Grande
- 1954 Clinton Rossiter, Seedtime of the Republic
- 1952 C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
- 1953 Herbert E. Bolton, Coronado
- 1953 Lawrence H. Gipson, Volume III, The Victorious Years, 1758-1760, of the series titled The Great War for the Empire
- 1953 George Dangerfield, The Era of Good Feelings
- 1951 Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land
- 1949 Samuel Eliot Morison, The Rising Sun in the Pacific
- 1948 Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union
- 1948 Bernard DeVoto, Across the Wide Missouri