Previous Winners - Bancroft Prizes

Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

Abigail Adams

Fear Itself : The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution

Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940

The Life and Times of Cotton Mather

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South

Alice James: A Biography

Empire of Cotton: A Global History

Killing for Coal

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940

Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement

The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst

The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

Jonathan Edwards: A Life

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War