It’s the most prestigious award in American history. Congrats to Beverly Gage, Kelly Lytle Hernández, and John Wood Sweet for winning it. Here are Jennifer Schuessler’s descriptions of these books at The New York Times: Beverly Gage’s “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover...
Bancroft Prize
Mia Bay and Mae Ngai win the Bancroft Prize
It is American history’s most prestigious award. Here is Jennifer Schuesller at The New York Times: An innovative study of Black Americans’ struggle against discrimination in transportation and a sweeping examination of Chinese migration to goldfields across the Anglophone world...
Winners of the 2021 Bancroft Prize announced
Andy Horowitz won for Katrina: A History, 1915-2015. Claudio Saint won for Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. Here is the press release from Columbia University: Columbia University Libraries has announced that two...
Winners of the Bancroft Prize Announced
Here is the press release: Columbia University Libraries is pleased to award the 2020 Bancroft Prizes in American History and Diplomacy to two acclaimed works: Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age by...
Remembering the Michael Bellesiles *Arming America* Controversy
Twenty years ago an Emory University history professor named Michael Bellesiles published a book arguing that early Americans were not all that interested in guns until after the Civil War. The book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, won...
David Blight and Lisa Brooks Win the Bancroft Prize
Blights wins for Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom. Brooks wins for Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War. Congratulations! Here is a taste of an article on the winners at The New York Times: A mammoth biography of Frederick Douglass...
Bancroft Prize-Winning Historian of Health Care Nancy Tomes is Coming to Messiah College
Nancy Tomes is Distinguished Professor of History at Stony Brook University. Her 2016 book, Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American history. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJRvfHY10YA&w=560&h=315] “This is like...
Nancy Tomes Wins the Bancroft Prize
I can now say that I am a student of a Bancroft Prize winner! I am very excited to learn that Nancy Tomes, one of my graduate school mentors and one of my favorite people in the profession, is one of...
Bancroft Prize(s) Announced
Here is the press release: A book on the 1787 Constitutional Convention and two books on the way encounters with Native Americans shaped the emerging American nation have won the Bancroft Prize, considered one of the most prestigious honors in...
2013 Bancroft Prize Winners
From AHA TODAY: “The Bancroft Prize is awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University to the authors of books of exceptional merit in the fields of American history, biography, and diplomacy. There were 223 books nominated for the 2013...