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Bancroft Prize

Three historians win the Bancroft Prize

John Fea   |  March 14, 2023

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 […]

Mia Bay and Mae Ngai win the Bancroft Prize

John Fea   |  March 17, 2022

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 […]