AAS Members Who Have Won A Bancroft Prize

Members, who now number more than a thousand persons, are elected by their colleagues in recognition of scholarship, for support of cultural institutions, for manifest interest in bibliographical matters, or for distinction as community or national leaders in humanistic affairs.

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

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 volution
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
2005		Michael O'Brien,Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860
2006		Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
2008		Pekka Hämäläinen,The Comanche Empire
2009		Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
2010		Woody Holton, Abigail Adams
2011		Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
2016		Mary Sarah Bilder, Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
2015		Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History
2018		Douglas L. Winiarski, Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England
2019		David Blight, Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom Lisa Brooks, Our Beloved Kin