Award Winners

• Academic Association Awards
• Bancroft Prize
• Cookbook Awards
• International Awards and Prizes
• Library Awards
• Lincoln Prize
• Media Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• National Jewish Book Award
• Nobel Prize
• Other Awards and Honors
• PEN Prizes
• Poetry Awards
• Professional Association Awards
• Pulitzer Prize
• State and Regional Awards
• Translation Awards

Bancroft Prize

1. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

   Eric Foner

   “A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston GlobeMore

2. Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

   Linda Gordon

   Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers.More

3. Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America

   Peter Silver

   “With remarkable literary skill, Peter Silver . . . provokes hard thinking about the basic themes of our history.”—Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American DemocracyMore

4. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

   Sean Wilentz

   Winner of the Bancroft Award: "Monumental…a tour de force…awesome in its coverage of political events."—Gordon Wood, New York Times Book ReviewMore

5. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864

   Edward L. Ayers

   Winner of the Bancroft Prize: Through a gripping narrative based on massive new research, a leading historian reshapes our understanding of the Civil War.More

6. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush

   Susan Lee Johnson

   Winner of the 2001 Bancroft Prize.More

7. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

   John W. Dower

   Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.More

8. Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier

   James H. Merrell

   "A stunning achievement. . . . A pathbreaking scholarly work by one of the nation's leading historians of the interaction between Native Americans and European newcomers in early America."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)More

9. The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History

   Walter LaFeber

   Winner of the Bancroft Prize.More

10. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

    William Cronon

    Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991.More