The Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University in the City of New York to the authors of distinguished works in either or both of the following categories: American History (including biography) and Diplomacy. 2004 IN THE PRESENCE OF MINE ENEMIES: WAR IN THE HEART OF AMERICA, 1859-1863, by Edward L. Ayers A NATION UNDER OUR FEET: BLACK POLITICAL STRUGGLES IN THE RURAL SOUTH FROM SLAVERY TO THE GREAT MIGRATION, by Steven Hahn JONATHAN EDWARDS: A LIFE, by George M. Marsden 2003 CAPTIVES AND COUSINS: SLAVERY, KINSHIP, AND COMMUNITY IN THE SOUTHWEST BORDERLANDS, by James F. Brooks THE INDIAN SLAVE TRADE: THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH EMPIRE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, 1670-1717, by Alan Gallay 2002 RACE AND REUNION: THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICAN MEMORY by David W. Blight IN PURSUIT OF EQUITY: WOMEN, MEN, AND THE QUEST FOR ECONOMIC CITIZENSHIP IN 20TH-CENTURY AMERICA by Alice Kessler-Harris 2001 ROARING CAMP: THE SOCIAL WORLD OF THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH by Susan Lee Johnson THE CHIEF: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST by David Nasaw 2000 INTO THE AMERICAN WOODS: NEGOTIATORS ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER by James H. Merrell EMBRACING DEFEAT: JAPAN IN THE WAKE OF WORLD WAR II by John Dower THE GREAT ARIZONA ORPHAN ABDUCTION by Linda Gordon 1999 MANY THOUSANDS GONE: THE FIRST TWO CENTURIES OF SLAVERY IN NORTH AMERICA by Ira Berlin SLAVE COUNTERPOINT: BLACK CULTURE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CHESAPEAKE AND LOW COUNTRY by Philip D. Morgan THE NAME OF WAR: KING PHILIP'S WAR AND THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN IDENTITY by Jill Lepore 1998 SOUTHERN CROSS: THE BEGINNINGS OF THE BIBLE BELT by Christine Leigh Heyrman THE CLASH: A HISTORY OF U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS by Walter LaFeber THE ORIGINS OF THE URBAN CRISIS: RACE AND INEQUALITY IN POSTWAR DETROIT by Thomas J. Sugrue 1997 EXPLICIT AND AUTHENTIC ACTS: AMENDING THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, 1776-1995 by David E. Kyvig GRAND EXPECTATIONS: THE UNITED STATES, 1945-1974 by James T. Patterson 1996 WILLIAM COOPER'S TOWN: POWER AND PERSUASION ON THE FRONTIER OF THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC by Alan Taylor WALT WHITMAN'S AMERICA: A CULTURAL BIOGRAPHY by David S. Reynolds 1995 THE REFINER'S FIRE: THE MAKING OF MORMON COSMOLOGY, 1644-1844 by John L. Brooke LOCAL PEOPLE: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN MISSISSIPPI by John Dittmer 1994 THE AGE OF FEDERALISM: THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC, 1788-1800 by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick TUMULT AND SILENCE AT SECOND CREEK: AN INQUIRY INTO A CIVIL WAR SLAVE CONSPIRACY by Winthrop D. Jordan W.E.B. Du Bois: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A RACE, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis 1993 MARGARET FULLER: AN AMERICAN ROMANTIC LIFE; VOLUME I: THE PRIVATE YEARS by Charles Capper A PREPONDERANCE OF POWER: NATIONAL SECURITY, THE TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION, AND THE COLD WAR by Melvyn P. Leffler 1992 NATURE'S METROPOLIS: CHICAGO AND THE GREAT WEST by William Cronon THE DESTRUCTIVE WAR: WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN, STONEWALL JACKSON, AND THE AMERICANS by Charles Royster 1991 MAKING A NEW DEAL: INDUSTRIAL WORKERS IN CHICAGO, 1919-1939 by Lizabeth Cohen A MIDWIFE'S TALE: THE LIFE OF MARTHA BALLARD, BASED ON HER DIARY, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1990 THE INDIANS' NEW WORLD: CATAWBAS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS FROM EUROPEAN CONTACT THROUGH THE ERA OF REMOVAL by James H. Merrell DARK JOURNEY: BLACK MISSISSIPPIANS IN THE AGE OF JIM CROW by Neil R. McMillen 1989 RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA'S UNFINISHED REVOLUTION: 1863-1877 by Eric Foner INVENTING THE PEOPLE: THE RISE OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA by Edmund S. Morgan 1988 THE RISE OF AMERICAN AIR POWER: THE CREATION OF ARMAGEDDON by Michael S. Sherry UNFREE LABOR: AMERICAN SLAVERY AND RUSSIAN SERFDOM by Peter Kolchin 1987 A VIGOROUS SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE: MERCHANTS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN REVOLUTIONARY PHILADELPHIA by Thomas Doerflinger ROOTS OF VIOLENCE IN BLACK PHILADELPHIA, 1860-1900 by Roger Lane 1986 CRABGRASS FRONTIER: THE SUBURBANIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES by Kenneth T. Jackson LABOR OF LOVE, LABOR OF SORROW: BLACK WOMEN, WORK, AND THE FAMILY FROM SLAVERY TO THE PRESENT by Jacqueline Jones 1985 THE FREE WOMEN OF PETERSBURG: STATUS AND CULTURE IN A SOUTHERN TOWN, 1784-1860 by Suzanne Lebsock THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COTTON MATHER by Kenneth Silverman 1984 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: THE WIZARD OF TUSKEGEE, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan THE SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN MEDICINE; THE RISE OF A SOVEREIGN PROFESSION AND THE MAKING OF A VAST INDUSTRY by Paul Starr 1983 ENTERTAINING SATAN: WITCHCRAFT AND THE CULTURE OF EARLY NEW ENGLAND by John Putnam Demos EUGENE V. DEBS: CITIZEN AND SOCIALIST by Nick Salvatore 1982 A PEOPLE IN REVOLUTION: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND POLITICAL SOCIETY IN NEW YORK, 1760-1790 by Edward Countryman CRADLE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS: THE FAMILY IN ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK, 1790-1865 by Mary P. Ryan 1981 WALTER LIPMANN AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY by Ronald Steel ALICE JAMES: A BIOGRAPHY by Jean Strouse 1980 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1932-1945 by Robert Dallek WOMEN AT WORK: THE TRANSFORMATION OF WORK AND COMMUNITY IN LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, 1826-1860 by Thomas Dublin DUST BOWL: THE SOUTHERN PLAINS IN THE 1930s by Donald Worster 1979 ALLIES OF A KIND: THE UNITED STATES, BRITAIN, AND THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN, 1941-1945 by Christopher Thorne ROCKDALE: THE GROWTH OF AN AMERICAN VILLAGE IN THE EARLY INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION by Anthony F. C. Wallace 1978 THE VISIBLE HAND: THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION IN AMERICAN BUSINESS by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN LAW, 1780-1860 by Morton J. Horwitz 1977 CLASS AND COMMUNITY: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN LYNN by Alan Dawley, THE MINUTEMEN AND THEIR WORLD by Robert A. Gross SLAVE POPULATION AND ECONOMY IN JAMAICA, 1807-1834 by Barry W. Higman 1976 THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis EDITH WHARTON: A BIOGRAPHY by R. W. B. Lewis 1975 TIME ON THE CROSS: THE ECONOMICS OF AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY and TIME ON THE CROSS: EVIDENCE AND METHODS--A SUPPLEMENT by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman DETERRENCE IN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY: THEORY AND PRACTICE by Alexander L. George and Richard Smoke ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL by Eugene Genovese 1974 FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER: HISTORIAN, SCHOLAR, TEACHER by Ray Allen Billington THE DEVIL AND JOHN FOSTER DULLES by Townsend Hoopes THE OTHER BOSTONIANS: POVERTY AND PROGRESS IN THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS, 1880-1970 by Stephan Thernstrom 1973 FIRE IN THE LAKE: THE VIETNAMESE AND THE AMERICANS IN VIETNAM by Frances FitzGerald THE UNITED STATES AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR by John Lewis Gaddis BOOKER T. WASHINGTON by Louis R. Harlan 1972 NEITHER BLACK NOR WHITE by Carl N. Degler THE MATHERS: THREE GENERATIONS OF PURITAN INTELLECTUALS, 1596-1728 by Robert Middlekauff THE EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA: THE NORTHERN VOYAGES by Samuel Eliot Morison 1971 THE IMAGE EMPIRE: A HISTORY OF BROADCASTING IN THE UNITED STATES, VOLUME III--FROM 1953 by Erik Barnouw BIRTH CONTROL IN AMERICA: THE CAREER OF MARGARET SANGER by David M. Kennedy ANDREW CARNEGIE by Joseph Frazier Wall 1970 CHARLES WILSON PEALE by Charles Coleman Sellers THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. Wood SCOTTSBORO: A TRAGEDY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH by Dan T. Carter 1969 WHITE OVER BLACK: AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD THE NEGRO, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan WOODROW WILSON AND WORLD POLITICS: AMERICA'S RESPONSE TO WAR AND REVOLUTION by N. Gordon Levin Jr. THE BRAINS TRUST by Rexford Guy Tugwell 1968 A HISTORY OF NEGRO EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH FROM 1619 To THE PRESENT by Henry Allen Bullock FROM PURITAN TO YANKEE: CHARACTER AND SOCIAL ORDER IN CONNECTICUT, 1690-1765 by Richard L. Bushman THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Bernard Bailyn 1967 PRELUDE TO CIVIL WAR: THE NULLIFICATION CONTROVERSY IN SOUTH CAROLINA, 1816-1836 by William W. Freehling JAMES K. POLK, CONTINENTALIST, 1843-1846, Volume II by Charles Sellers THE WASHINGTON COMMUNITY, 1800-1828 by James Sterling Young 1966 THE PEACEMAKERS: THE GREAT POWERS AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE by Richard B. Morris BETWEEN TWO EMPIRES: THE ORDEAL OF THE PHILIPPINES, 1929-1946 by Theodore W. Friend III 1965 CASTLEREAGH AND ADAMS: ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES, 1812-1823 by Bradford Perkins PORTRAIT OF A GENERAL: SIR HENRY CLINTON IN THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE by William B. Willcox THE UNITED STATES AND THE FAR EASTERN CRISIS OF 1933-1938 by Dorothy Borg 1964 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL, 1932-1940 by William E. Leuchtenburg THE LIBERATOR: WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON by John L. Thomas POWER, FREEDOM, AND DIPLOMACY: THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA by Paul Seabury 1963 JOHN ADAMS by Page Smith PEARL HARBOR: WARNING AND DECISION by Roberta Wohlstetter THE MIGHT OF NATIONS: WORLD POLITICS IN OUR TIME by John G. Stoessinger 1962 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SCHOOL by Lawrence A. Cremin TO THE FAREWELL ADDRESS: IDEAS OF EARLY AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY by Felix Gilbert CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, 1807-1866 by Martin B. Duberman 1961 THE JEFFERSON IMAGE IN THE AMERICAN MIND by Merrill D. Peterson WILSON: THE STRUGGLE FOR NEUTRALITY, 1914-1915 by Arthur S. Link 1960 THE AGE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION. A POLITICAL HISTORY OF EUROPE AND AMERICA, 1760-1800 by R. R. Palmer IN THE DAYS OF MCKINLEY by Margaret Leech 1959 HENRY ADAMS, THE MIDDLE YEARS by Ernest Samuels THE AMERICANS; THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE by Daniel J. Boorstin 1958 THE CRISIS OF THE OLD ORDER by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. A HISTORY OF AMERICAN MAGAZINES, VOLUME IV by Frank Luther Mott 1957 RUSSIA LEAVES THE WAR by George F. Kennan WILSON: THE NEW FREEDOM by Arthur S. Link 1956 HENRY ADAMS by Elizabeth Stevenson LAST FULL MEASURE: LINCOLN THE PRESIDENT by J. G. Randall and Richard N. Current 1955 GREAT RIVER, THE RIO GRANDE by Paul Horgan THE JACKSONIANS by Leonard D. White 1954 SEEDTIME OF THE REPUBLIC by Clinton Rossiter THE UNDECLARED WAR by William L. Langer and S. Everett Gleason 1953 THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS by George Dangerfield RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY by Eric F. Goldman 1952 CHARLES EVANS HUGHES by Merlo J. Pusey ORIGINS OF THE NEW SOUTH, 1877-1913 by C. Vann Woodward 1951 OUR MORE PERFECT UNION by Arthur N. Holcombe VIRGIN LAND by Henry N. Smith 1950 VOLUME VII, THE VICTORIOUS YEAR, 1758-1760, of the series titled THE GREAT WAR FOR THE EMPIRE by Lawrence H. Gipson CORONADO by Herbert E. Bolton 1949 ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS by Robert E. Sherwood THE RISING SUN IN THE PACIFIC by Samuel E. Morison 1948 ORDEAL OF THE UNION by Allan Nevins ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI by Bernard DeVoto
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