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. The following CASBS Fellows have received this
prestigious award:
2004
Edward L.
Ayers
(Fellow 2000) for In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart
of
America, 1859 - 1863.
Steven Hahn (Fellow 1995) for A
Nation Under Our
Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the
Great
Migration.
1999
Ira Berlin (Fellow 1990) for Many Thousands Gone: The
First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.
1994
Winthop D. Jordan (Fellow 1976) for Tumult and Silence at
Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy.
David L. Lewis (Fellow 1981) for The Biography of a Race, 1868 -
1919.
1984
Louis R. Harlan (Fellow 1981) for Booker T. Washington:
The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901 - 1915.
1982
Mary P. Ryan (Fellow 1985) for Cradle of the Middle
Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York,1790 - 1865.
1976
David B. Davis (Fellow 1973) for The Problem of Slavery in
the Age of Revolution.
1975
Stanley L. Engerman (Fellow 1986) and Robert William Fogel for
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery and TIme
on the Cross: Evidence and Methods - A Supplement.
Alexander L. George (Fellow 1957) and Richard Smoke (Fellow
1975) for Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice.
Eugene Genovese (Fellow 1973) for Roll, Jordan, Roll.
1973
Louis R. Harlan (Fellow 1981) for Booker T. Washington.
1972
Carl N. Degler (Fellow 1980) for Neither Black Nor White.
1971
David M. Kennedy (Fellow 1987) for Birth Control in
America: The Career of Margaret Sanger.
1970
Gordon S. Wood (Fellow 1988) for The Creation of the
American Republic, 1776 - 1787.
1969
Winthrop D. Jordan (Fellow 1976) for White Over Black:
American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550 - 1812.
1967
Charles Sellers (Fellow 1961) for James K. Polk,
Continentalist, 1843 - 1846, Volume II.
1964
William E. Leuchtenburg (Fellow 1962) for Franklin D.
Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932 - 1940.
1962
Lawrence A. Cremin (Fellow 1965) for The Transformation of
the School.
1961
Merrill D. Peterson (Fellow 1969) for The Jefferson Image
in the American Mind.
1954
William L. Langer (Fellow 1960) for The Undeclared War.
1951
Henry N. Smith (Fellow 1961) for Virgin Land.
