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Bancroft Prize

American award for books on American history and diplomacy
Intangible literary_award Q724144

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
literary award, award, non-fiction literary award, history award[17][18][19]
Country
United States[16]
Conferred by
Columbia University[21]
Different from
Bancroft Award
Named after
Frederic Bancroft[20]
Winner
Allan Nevins, Bernard DeVoto, Samuel Eliot Morison, Robert E. Sherwood, Lawrence H. Gipson, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Arthur N. Holcombe, Henry Nash Smith, Merlo J. Pusey, C. Vann Woodward, Eric F. Goldman, George Dangerfield, Clinton Rossiter, William L. Langer, Leonard D. White, Paul Horgan, James G. Randall, Richard N. Current, George F. Kennan, Arthur S. Link, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Frank Luther Mott, Daniel J. Boorstin, Ernest Samuels, Margaret Leech, Robert Roswell Palmer, Merrill D. Peterson, Arthur S. Link, Felix Gilbert, Martin Duberman, Lawrence A. Cremin, Page Smith, John G. Stoessinger, Roberta Wohlstetter, Paul Seabury, William Leuchtenburg, William B. Willcox, Dorothy Borg, Bradford Perkins, Theodore Friend, Richard B. Morris, James Sterling Young, William W. Freehling, Charles Coleman Sellers, Henry Allen Bullock, Bernard Bailyn, Richard Bushman, Winthrop Jordan, Rexford Tugwell, N. Gordon Levin Jr., Gordon S. Wood, Dan T. Carter, Charles Coleman Sellers, Joseph Frazier Wall, David M. Kennedy, Erik Barnouw, Carl Neumann Degler, Samuel Eliot Morison, Robert Middlekauff, Louis R. Harlan, Frances FitzGerald, John Lewis Gaddis, Townsend Hoopes, Ray Allen Billington, Stephan Thernstrom, Stanley Engerman, Robert Fogel, Richard Smoke, Alexander L. George, Eugene Genovese, R. W. B. Lewis, David Brion Davis, Robert A. Gross, Alan Dawley, Morton Horwitz, Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Christopher Thorne, Anthony F. C. Wallace, Thomas Dublin, Donald Worster, Robert Dallek, Jean Strouse, Ronald Steel, Mary P. Ryan, Edward Countryman, Nick Salvatore, John Putnam Demos, Louis R. Harlan, Paul Starr, Suzanne Lebsock, Kenneth Silverman, Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacqueline Jones, Thomas Doerflinger, Roger Lane, Michael S. Sherry, Peter Kolchin, Eric Foner, Edmund S. Morgan, Neil R. McMillen, James Merrell, Lizabeth Cohen, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, William Cronon, Charles Royster, Melvyn P. Leffler, Charles Capper, Winthrop Jordan, Stanley Elkins, David Levering Lewis, John L. Brooke, John Dittmer, Alan Taylor, David S. Reynolds, James T. Patterson, David E. Kyvig, Thomas J. Sugrue, Christine Leigh Heyrman, Walter LaFeber, Jill Lepore, Philip D. Morgan, Ira Berlin, James Merrell, John W. Dower, Linda Gordon, Susan Lee Johnson, Arming America, David Nasaw, David W. Blight, Alice Kessler-Harris, James F. Brooks, Alan Gallay, George Marsden, Edward L. Ayers, Steven Hahn, Melvin Patrick Ely, Michael O'Brien, Michael Klarman, Odd Arne Westad, Sean Wilentz, Erskine Clarke, Jack T. Kirby, Robert D. Richardson, Peter Silver, Allan M. Brandt, Charles Postel, Thomas G. Andrews, Pekka Hämäläinen, Drew Gilpin Faust, Margaret D. Jacobs, Linda Gordon, Woody Holton, Eric Foner[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔗 Connections
Awarded to 82
George F. Kennan, Robert Fogel, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Drew Gilpin Faust, Daniel J. Boorstin, Robert E. Sherwood, Samuel Eliot Morison, Bernard Bailyn +74 more
Winner 81
George F. Kennan, Robert Fogel, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Drew Gilpin Faust, Daniel J. Boorstin, Robert E. Sherwood, Samuel Eliot Morison, Samuel Eliot Morison +73 more
Conferred by 1
Columbia University
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
literary award
Named after 1
Frederic Bancroft
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Columbia University
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Summary

Bancroft Prize is a literary award[1].

FAQs

What awards did Bancroft Prize receive?

Honors received include Allan Nevins[2], Bernard DeVoto[3], Samuel Eliot Morison[4], and Robert E. Sherwood[5].

Related Entities

Arthur M. Schlesinger Daniel J. Boorstin Drew Gilpin Faust George F. Kennan Robert Fogel United States

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  1. 4d ago · Clemens Dulcis · 2026-10-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → literary award, award, non-fiction literary award +1
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    Different from → Bancroft Award
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  3. 4d ago · Clemens Dulcis · 2026-10-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after → —
    Instance of → literary award, award, non-fiction literary award +1
    Conferred by → Columbia University
    Country → United States
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