The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 for books about diplomacy

Diplomacy

Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states...

 or the history of the Americas

Americas

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. It was established in 1948 by a bequest from Frederic Bancroft

Frederic Bancroft

-Biography:He was born in Galesburg, Illinois and was graduated with an A.B. from Amherst College and received a Ph. D. from Columbia University. He was a lecturer for one year at Columbia, and served as Librarian of the State Department from 1888 to 1892....

. The prize has been generally considered to be among the most prestigious awards in the field of American history writing and comes with a $10,000 stipend (raised from $4,000 beginning in 2004). Seventeen winners had their work supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities

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, and 16 winners were also recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for History

Pulitzer Prize for History

The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. Many history books have also been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography...

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The prize was affected by the post-award controversy involving the scholarship of Michael A. Bellesiles

Michael A. Bellesiles

Michael A. Bellesiles is a former professor of American colonial and legal history at Emory University best known as the author of Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture , a book that won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 2001...

, who received the prize for his work in 2001. Following independent investigations, Columbia University rescinded the prize for the first time.

Past winners of the Bancroft Prize

Year	Book
1948	Nevins, Allan Allan Nevins Allan Nevins was an American historian and journalist, renowned for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as President Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller.-Life:Born in Camp Point, Illinois, Nevins was educated at... . Ordeal of the Union Ordeal of the Union Ordeal of the Union, an eight-volume set on the American Civil War by Allan Nevins, is one of the author's greatest works, ending only with his death... . New York : Charles Scribner and Sons, 1947.
	DeVoto, Bernard Bernard DeVoto Bernard Augustine DeVoto was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West.- Life and work :He was born in Ogden, Utah... . Across the Wide Missouri Across the Wide Missouri Across the Wide Missouri is a 1947 historical work by Bernard DeVoto. It is the second volume of a trilogy that includes The Year of Decision and The Course of Empire .... . New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1947.
1949	Sherwood, Robert E. Robert E. Sherwood Robert Emmet Sherwood was an American playwright, editor, and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in New Rochelle, New York, he was a son of Arthur Murray Sherwood, a rich stockbroker, and his wife, the former Rosina Emmet, a well-known illustrator and portrait painter known as Rosina E. Sherwood...  Roosevelt and Hopkins. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1948.
	Morison, Samuel E. Samuel Eliot Morison Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years...  The Rising Sun in the Pacific. New York : Little, Brown, 1948.
1950	Gipson, Lawrence H. Lawrence H. Gipson Lawrence Henry Gipson was an American historian, who won the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for History...  The Victorious Year, 1758–1760. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Vol. VII of The Great War for Empire.
	Bolton, Herbert E. Herbert Eugene Bolton Herbert Eugene Bolton was an American historian and one of the most prominent authorities on Spanish American history...  Coronado. Whittlesey House and the University of New Mexico Press, 1949.
1951	Holcombe, Arthur N. Arthur N. Holcombe Arthur Norman Holcombe was an American historian, and educator.-Life:He received a BA at Harvard University in 1906 and a Ph.D. in 1909. On August 30, 1910, he married Carolyn H. Crossett. They had five children...  Our More Perfect Union. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1950.
	Smith, Henry N. Henry Nash Smith Henry Nash Smith was an American culture and literature researcher. He was co-founder of the academic discipline "American studies"...  Virgin Land. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1950.
1952	Pusey, Merlo J. Merlo J. Pusey Merlo John Pusey was an American biographer and editorial writer who won the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his 1951 biography of Charles Evans Hughes....  Charles Evans Hughes. New York : Macmillan, 1951.
	Woodward, C. Vann C. Vann Woodward Comer Vann Woodward was a preeminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. He was considered, along with Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to be one of the most influential historians of the postwar era, 1940s-1970s, both by scholars and by... . Origins of the New South, 1877–1913. Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana State University Press, 1951.
1953	Dangerfield, George George Dangerfield George Dangerfield was a journalist, historian, and the literary editor of Vanity Fair from 1933 to 1935... . The Era of Good Feelings. New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1952.
	Goldman, Eric F. Eric F. Goldman Eric Frederick Goldman was an American historian, Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University, and Presidential advisor.-Life:...  Rendezvous with Destiny. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
1954	Rossiter, Clinton Clinton Rossiter Clinton Rossiter was a historian and political scientist who taught at Cornell University from 1946 until his suicide in 1970. He wrote The American Presidency along with 20 other books on American institutions, the United States Constitution, and history... . Seedtime of the Republic. New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1953.
	Langer, William L. William L. Langer William Leonard Langer was the chair of the history department at Harvard University and the World War II volunteer head of the Research and Analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services...  and S. Everett Gleason S. Everett Gleason Sarell Everett Gleason was an American historian, and intelligence analyst.-Life:... . The Undeclared War. New York : Harper & Bros., 1953.
1955	Horgan, Paul Paul Horgan Paul Horgan was an American author of fiction and non-fiction, most of which was set in the Southwestern United States. He was the recipient of two Pulitzer prizes in History... . Great River, The Rio Grande. Rinehart, 1954.
	White, Leonard D. Leonard D. White Leonard Dupee White was a historian of the field of public administration in the United States. His technique was to study administration in the context of grouped U.S. presidential periods. An important founder of the field, White worked at the University of Chicago after service in the...  The Jacksonians. New York : Macmillan, 1954.
1956	Stevenson, Elizabeth. Henry Adams. New York : Macmillan, 1955.
	Randall, J. G. James G. Randall James G. Randall was an American historian, specializing on Abraham Lincoln and the era of the American Civil War. He taught at the University of Illinois, , where David Herbert Donald was one of his students and continued his traditions. Born in Indiana, he took a B.A. degree from Butler College...  and Richard N. Current Richard N. Current Richard Nelson Current is an American historian.-Life:He graduated from Oberlin College, from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with an M.A., and from the University of Wisconsin with a Ph.D. in history in 1940... . Last Full Measure: Lincoln the President. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1955.
1957	Kennan, George F. George F. Kennan George Frost Kennan was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War...  Russia Leaves the War Russia Leaves the War Russia Leaves the War is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by George F. Kennan. The book also won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the George Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize. The first of two volumes discussing Soviet-American relations from 1917-1920, Russia Leaves the War covers... . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1956.
	Link, Arthur S. Arthur S. Link Arthur S. Link was a leading American historian and a scholarly authority on Woodrow Wilson.-Biography:Born in New Market, Virginia, to a German Lutheran family, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a B.A. in 1941 and a Ph.D. in 1945...  Wilson: The New Freedom. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1956.
1958	Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Crisis of the Old Order. New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1957.
	Mott, Frank Luther Frank Luther Mott Frank Luther Mott was an American historian and journalist of Quaker descent.Mott was born in Rose Hill, Iowa... . A History of American Magazines. Vol. 4. Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957.
1959	Samuels, Ernest Ernest Samuels Ernest Samuels was an American biographer and lawyer.Born in Chicago, he received his J.D. in 1926, but switched to literature in 1930. Nevertheless he did legal work as well for much of the 1930s. He might be best known for his biography of Henry Adams in three volumes... . Henry Adams, The Middle Years. Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958.
	Boorstin, Daniel J. Daniel J. Boorstin Daniel Joseph Boorstin was an American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.- Biography:...  The Americans: The Colonial Experience. New York : Random House, 1958.
1960	Palmer, R. R. Robert Roswell Palmer Robert Roswell Palmer , commonly known as R. R. Palmer, was a distinguished American historian at Princeton and Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century France...  The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1959.
	Leech, Margaret Margaret Leech Margaret Kernochan Leech also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American author and historian, who won two Pulitzer Prizes in history, for her books Reveille in Washington and In the Days of McKinley .She was born in Newburgh, New York, obtained a B.A... . In the Days of McKinley. New York : Harper & Bros., 1959.
1961	Peterson, Merrill D. Merrill D. Peterson Merrill Daniel Peterson was Professor of History at the University of Virginia and the editor of the prestigious Library of America edition of the selected writings of Thomas Jefferson...  The Jefferson Image in the American Mind. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1960.
	Link, Arthur S. Arthur S. Link Arthur S. Link was a leading American historian and a scholarly authority on Woodrow Wilson.-Biography:Born in New Market, Virginia, to a German Lutheran family, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a B.A. in 1941 and a Ph.D. in 1945...  Wilson: The Struggle for Neutrality, 1914–1915. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1960.
1962	Cremin, Lawrence A. Lawrence A. Cremin Lawrence A. Cremin was an educational historian and administrator. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1949. He won the 1962 Bancroft Prize in American History for his book The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957...  The Transformation of the School. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.
	Gilbert, Felix Felix Gilbert Felix Gilbert was a German-born American historian of early modern and modern Europe. Gilbert was born in Baden-Baden, Germany to a middle-class Jewish family, and part of the Mendelssohn Bartholdy clan. In the latter half of the 1920s, Gilbert studied under Friedrich Meinecke at the University of...  To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1961.
	Duberman, Martin B. Martin Duberman Martin Bauml Duberman is an American historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist. He is Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and was the founder of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate School...  Charles Francis Adams, 1807–1866. New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
1963	Smith, Page Page Smith Charles Page Smith , who was known by his middle name, was a U.S. historian, professor, author, and newspaper columnist.... . John Adams. New York : Doubleday, 1962.
	Wohlstetter, Roberta Roberta Wohlstetter Roberta Mary Morgan, better known by her married name of Roberta Wohlstetter, , was one of America's most important historians of military intelligence. Her most influential work is Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. The former secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, is said to have required that... . Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. Palo Alto, CA : Stanford University Press, 1962.
	Stoessinger, John G. John G. Stoessinger John G. Stoessinger, Ph.D. , a prize winning author of ten leading books on world politics, has been the recipient of the distinguished Bancroft Prize for History for The Might of Nations, and has served as Acting Director for the Political Affairs Division at the United Nations. On the eve of...  The Might of Nations: World Politics in Our Time. New York : Random House, 1962.
1964	Leuchtenburg, William E. William Leuchtenburg William E. Leuchtenburg is William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at Chapel Hill and a leading scholar of the life and career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He is the author of more than a dozen books on 20th century history ,...  Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940. New York : Harper & Row, 1963.
	Thomas, John L. John Lewis Thomas, Jr. John Lewis Thomas, Jr. was an American politician.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Thomas studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1856, commencing practice soon afterwards in Cumberland, Maryland. He also served as city counselor of Cumberland in 1856 and 1857...  The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison. New York : Little, Brown, 1963.
	Seabury, Paul Paul Seabury Paul Seabury was an American historian, and foreign policy consultant.-Life:Born Hempstead, Long Island, Seabury was a native New Yorker. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1946, and from Columbia University, with a Ph.D. He taught at University of California, Berkeley starting in 1953... . Power, Freedom, and Diplomacy: The Foreign Policy of the United States of America. New York : Random House, 1963.
1965	Perkins, Bradford Bradford Perkins (historian) Bradford Perkins was an American historian who spent the bulk of his career at the University of Michigan. He was the son of the historian Dexter Perkins.-Life:... . Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812–1823. Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 1964.
	Willcox, William B. William B. Willcox William Bradford Willcox was an American historian. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1928, a B.F.A. from Yale University in 1932, and his Ph.D...  Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
	Borg, Dorothy Dorothy Borg Dorothy Borg was an American historian.-Life:A native of Elberon, New Jersey, she graduated from Wellesley College and from Columbia University with a master's and doctoral degrees.... . The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1933–1938. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1964.
1966	Morris, Richard B. Richard B. Morris Richard Brandon Morris was an American historian best known for his pioneering work in colonial American legal history and the early history of American labor. In later years, he shifted his research interests to the constitutional, diplomatic, and political history of the American Revolution and...  The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence. New York : Harper & Row, 1965.
	Friend, Theodore W., III Theodore Friend Theodore Friend is an American historian, novelist, and teacher, a former President of Swarthmore College.-Life:... . Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929–1946. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1965.
1967	Freehling, William W. William W. Freehling William W. Freehling is an American historian, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky.His work appeared in The New York Review of Books.-Awards:...  Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816–1836. New York : Harper & Row, 1966.
	Sellers, Charles Charles Sellers Charles Coleman Sellers was an American historian, and librarian.-Life:He was the great-grandson of Charles Willson Peale.... . James K. Polk, Continentalist, 1843–1846. Vol. II. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1966.
	Young, James Sterling James Sterling Young James Sterling Young is an American historian and professor emeritus, Randolph P. Compton Scholar at the University of Virginia.-Life:He graduated from Princeton University, and Columbia University, with a Ph.D. in 1964. He was a professor, and vice president of Columbia University... . The Washington Community, 1800–1828. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1966.
1968	Bullock, Henry Allen Henry Allen Bullock Henry Allen Bullock was an American historian, and sociologist.-Life:He graduated from Virginia Union University, in 1928, and from the University of Michigan with an M.A. in 1929 and with a Ph.D. in 1942... . A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1967.
	Bushman, Richard L. Richard Bushman Richard Lyman Bushman is an American historian and Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University. He is currently the Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University...  From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690–1765. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1967.
	Bailyn, Bernard Bernard Bailyn Bernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice . In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected... . The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
1969	Jordan, Winthrop D. Winthrop Jordan Winthrop Donaldson Jordan was a professor of history and renowned writer on the history of slavery and the origins of racism in the United States....  White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1968.
	Levin, N. Gordon, Jr. N. Gordon Levin Jr. Norman Gordon Levin Jr. is an American historian, and Dwight Morrow Professor of History and American Studies at Amherst College.-Life:He graduated from Yale University in 1956, and from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1967....  Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1968.
	Tugwell, Rexford Guy Rexford Tugwell Rexford Guy Tugwell was an agricultural economist who became part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first "Brain Trust," a group of Columbia academics who helped develop policy recommendations leading up to Roosevelt's 1932 election as President... . The Brains Trust. New York : The Viking Press, 1968.
1970	Sellers, Charles Charles Sellers Charles Coleman Sellers was an American historian, and librarian.-Life:He was the great-grandson of Charles Willson Peale.... . Charles Willson Peale. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969.
	Wood, Gordon S. Gordon S. Wood Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 won a 1970 Bancroft Prize...  The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1969.
	Carter, Dan T. Dan T. Carter -Life:He graduated from University of South Carolina, University of Wisconsin, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a Ph.D. in 1967.He taught at the University of Maryland, and the University of Wisconsin....  Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South. Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana State University Press, 1969.
1971	Barnouw, Erik Erik Barnouw Erik Barnouw was a U.S. historian of radio and television broadcasting.According to the Scribner Encyclopia of American Lives, Erik Barnouw was born in Den Haag in the Netherlands, the son of Adriaan , and Ann Eliza Barnouw... . The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States from 1953. Vol. III. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1970.
	Kennedy, David M. David M. Kennedy (historian) David M. Kennedy is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializing in American history. He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University and the Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West...  Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1970.
	Wall, Joseph Frazier Joseph Frazier Wall Joseph Frazier Wall was an American historian and professor of history at Grinnell College. His biography of Andrew Carnegie won the Bancroft Prize in 1971, and he was later nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his biography on the Du Pont family.-External links:*... . Andrew Carnegie. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1970.
1972	Degler, Carl N. Neither Black Nor White. New York : Macmillan, 1971.
	Middlekauff, Robert Robert Middlekauff Robert Middlekauff is a professor emeritus of colonial and early United States history at UC Berkeley. He is perhaps best known for The Glorious Cause, a history of the American Revolutionary War.-Bibliography:... . The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596–1728. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1971.
	Morison, Samuel E. Samuel Eliot Morison Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years... . The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1971.
1973	FitzGerald, Frances. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, written by Frances FitzGerald and published by both Back Bay Publishing and Little, Brown and Company in 1972, in 1973 won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, the National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs and the Bancroft... . Boston : Atlantic, Little, Brown, 1972.
	Gaddis, John Lewis John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy, who has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th... . The United States and the Origins of the Cold War. New York : Columbia University Press, 1972.
	Harlan, Louis R. Louis R. Harlan Louis Rudolph Harlan was an American historian and academic whose two-volume biography of African-American educator and social leader Booker T... . Booker T. Washington. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1972.
1974	Billington, Ray Allen Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington was an American historian. He was born in Bay City, Michigan and died in San Marino, California.-Life:... . Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1973.
	Hoopes, Townsend Townsend Hoopes Townsend Walter Hoopes II was an American historian, who reached the height of his career as Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1967 to 1969.-Biography:Hoopes, known as Tim, was born in Duluth, Minnesota... . The Devil and John Foster Dulles. Boston : Atlantic, Little, Brown, 1973.
	Thernstrom, Stephan Stephan Thernstrom Stephan Thernstrom is the Winthrop Research Professor of History at Harvard University. and was the editor of the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups .... . The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1973.
1975	Fogel, Robert William Robert Fogel Robert William Fogel is an American economic historian and scientist, and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is now the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics at the...  and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery is a book authored by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman-Content:Time on the Cross directly challenged the long-held conclusions that American slavery was unprofitable, a moribund institution, inefficient, and extremely harsh for... and Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods. Boston : Atlantic, Little, Brown, 1974.
	George, Alexander L. Alexander L. George Alexander L. George was an American behavioral scientist. He was the Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University.-Life:His parents were Assyrians from Urmia in north-west Iran....  and Richard Smoke Richard Smoke Richard Smoke was an American historian, and political scientist.-Life:... . Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice. New York : Columbia University Press, 1974.
	Genovese, Eugene Eugene D. Genovese Eugene Dominic Genovese is an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He has been noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and slaves in the South. His work Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the... . Roll, Jordan, Roll. New York : Pantheon, 1974.
1976	Davis, David Brion David Brion Davis David Brion Davis is an American historian and authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He is the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is a... . The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1975.
	Lewis, R. W. B. R. W. B. Lewis Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis was an American literary scholar and critic. He gained a wider reputation when he won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the first National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, and a Bancroft Prize for his biography of Edith Wharton...  Edith Wharton: A Biography. New York : Harper & Row, 1975.
1977	Dawley, Alan Alan Dawley Alan Dawley was a professor of history at The College of New Jersey.Dawley was a 1965 graduate of Oberlin College, and completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University. He then joined the faculty of The College of New Jersey.... . Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1976.
	Gross, Robert A. Robert A. Gross Robert Alan Gross is an American historian, and James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History at the University of Connecticut.-Life:...  The Minutemen and Their World. New York : Hill and Wang, 1976.
	Higman, Barry W. Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807–1834. Cambridge, Eng. : Cambridge University Press, 1976.
1978	Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and economic history of industrialization...  The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1977.
	Horwitz, Morton J. Morton Horwitz Morton J. Horwitz is an American legal historian and law professor at Harvard Law School. The recent past dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan, relates that during her time at law school, students often nicknamed him as "Mort the Tort" since he taught the first-year subject Torts.Horwitz...  The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1977.
1979	Thorne, Christopher Christopher Thorne Christopher G. Thorne was a British historian, who specialised in studying the Pacific War.-Biography:* The Approach of War, 1938-1939... . Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War Against Japan, 1941–1945. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1978.
	Wallace, Anthony F. C. Anthony F. C. Wallace Anthony Francis Clarke Wallace is a Canadian-American anthropologist who specializes in Native American cultures, especially the Iroquois. His research expresses an interest in the intersection of cultural anthropology and psychology...  Rockdale: The Growth of An American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution. New York : Alfred Knopf, 1978.
1980	Dallek, Robert Robert Dallek Robert Dallek is an American historian specializing in American presidents. He is a recently retired Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA, and Oxford... . Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1979.
	Dublin, Thomas Thomas Dublin Thomas Dublin is an American historian, and editor. He is Distinguished Professor of History at Binghamton University.-Life:He graduated from Harvard College, with a B.A. in chemistry, and from Columbia University, with a Ph.D.... . Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826–1860. New York : Columbia University Press, 1979.
	Worster, Donald Donald Worster Donald Worster is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. He is considered one of the founders of, and leading figures in, the field of environmental history; and in 2009, he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.-Education:Worster... . Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1979.
1981	Steel, Ronald Ronald Steel Ronald Lewis Steel is an award-winning American writer, historian, and professor. He is the author of the definitive biography of Walter Lippman.-Biography:Ronald Steel was born in 1931 in Morris, Illinois outside of Chicago... . Walter Lipmann and the American Century. New York : Little, Brown, 1980.
	Strouse, Jean Jean Strouse Jean Strouse is an American biographer, editor and critic. She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan.... . Alice James: A Biography. New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
1982	Countryman, Edward Edward Countryman -Life:He graduated from Manhattan College, and from Cornell University with an MA, and a Ph.D. in 1971.He taught at Yale University, University of Canterbury, University of Warwick, University of Cambridge.He teaches at Southern Methodist University.-Awards :... . A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760–1790. Baltimore, MD : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.
	Ryan, Mary P. Mary P. Ryan Mary P. Ryan is an American historian, and Margaret Byrne Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley.-Life:She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and from University of California, Santa Barbara with a PhD....  Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790–1865. Cambridge, Eng. : Cambridge University Press, 1981.
1983	Demos, John Putnam John Putnam Demos John Putnam Demos is an American author and historian. He has written two books which discuss witch-hunts and has discovered that one of his own ancestors was John Putnam Senior, ancestor of the Putnam family which was prominent in the Salem witch trials.... . Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1982.
	Salvatore, Nick Nick Salvatore Nick Salvatore is an American historian, and Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of American Studies at Cornell University.-Life:... . Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist. Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press, 1982.
1984	Harlan, Louis R. Louis R. Harlan Louis Rudolph Harlan was an American historian and academic whose two-volume biography of African-American educator and social leader Booker T...  Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1982.
	Starr, Paul Paul Starr Paul Starr is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. He is also the co-editor and co-founder of The American Prospect, a notable liberal magazine which was created in 1990... . The Social Transformation of American Medicine The Social Transformation Of American Medicine The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a book written by Paul Starr and published by Basic Books in 1982. It won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction as well as the Bancroft Prize.Capers Jones wrote,... : The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry. New York : Basic Books, 1983.
1985	Lebsock, Suzanne Suzanne Lebsock Suzanne Lebsock is an award winning author and historian. Her works include her first book The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 which was published in 1984 and won the Bancroft Prize, and A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial... . The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784–1860. New York : Norton, 1984.
	Silverman, Kenneth Kenneth Silverman Kenneth Silverman is a professor emeritus at New York University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. Silverman was born in Manhattan in 1936.-Books:* The Life and Times of Cotton Mather New York : Harper & Row, 1984... . The Life and Times of Cotton Mather. New York : Harper & Row, 1984.
1986	Jackson, Kenneth T. Kenneth T. Jackson Kenneth Terry Jackson is a professor of history and social sciences at Columbia University. A frequent television guest, he is best known as an urban historian and a preeminent authority on New York City, where he lives on the Upper West Side....  Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States is a book written by Kenneth T. Jackson. Published in 1985, it analyzes the development of American suburbs from their origins in the early 19th century. Jackson examines how a high quality of life in America came to be equated with home... . Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1985.
	Jones, Jacqueline Jacqueline Jones Jacqueline Jones is Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. She is an expert in American social history in addition to writing on economics , women, and class.- Background :Born in... . Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present. New York : Basic Books, 1985.
1987	Doerflinger, Thomas Thomas Doerflinger -Life:He is the son of William Main Doerflinger.He was a MCEAS Dissertation Fellow, at Harvard University in 1978-1979.-Works:***-External links:... . A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1986.
	Lane, Roger Roger Lane -External links:**... . Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860–1900. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1986.
1988	Sherry, Michael S. Michael S. Sherry Michael S. Sherry is an American historian, and professor of history at Northwestern University.-Life:He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis summa cum laude, and from Yale University with an MA and Ph.D. in 1975.-External links:*...  The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1987.
	Kolchin, Peter Peter Kolchin -Life:He graduated from Columbia University, and from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D. in 1970.He teaches at the University of Delaware.-Awards:* 1988 Bancroft Prize in American History... . Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1987.
1989	Foner, Eric Eric Foner Eric Foner is an American historian. On the faculty of the Department of History at Columbia University since 1982, he writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography... . Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. New York : Harper & Row, 1988.
	Morgan, Edmund S. Edmund Morgan Edmund Sears Morgan , an eminent authority on early American history, is Emeritus Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986.-Life:...  Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America. New York : W. W. Norton, 1988.
1990	Merrell, James H. James Merrell James Hart Merrell is the Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History at Vassar College. Professor Merrell is one of the leading scholars of early American history, and has written extensively on Native American history during the colonial era. Professor Merrell is one of only five historians to be...  The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1989.
	McMillen, Neil R. Neil R. McMillen Neil R. McMillen is an American historian, and professor emeritus at University of Southern Mississippi.-Life:He graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with a BA and MA, and from Vanderbilt University with a Ph.D....  Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press, 1989.
1991	Cohen, Lizabeth Lizabeth Cohen Lizabeth Cohen is the current Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and Chair of the History Department at Harvard University. Currently, she teaches courses in 20th century America, material and popular culture, and gender, urban, and working-class history. She has also served as the... . Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939. Cambridge, Eng. : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
	Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Laurel Thatcher Ulrich , is a historian of early America and the history of women and a university professor at Harvard University... . A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
1992	Cronon, William William Cronon William 'Bill' Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison... . Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York : W. W. Norton, 1991.
	Royster, Charles Charles Royster Charles Royster is an American historian, and Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University.-Life:He graduated from University of California, Berkeley with an A.B. in 1966, an M.A... . The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
1993	Capper, Charles Charles Capper Charles Capper is an American historian.-Life:He graduated from Johns Hopkins University, and from University of California, Berkeley with an M.A. and Ph.D. in history and taught fifteen years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has taught at Boston University since 2001... . The Private Years. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1992. Vol. 1 of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life.
	Leffler, Melvyn P. Melvyn P. Leffler Melvyn P. Leffler is an American historian, and Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia.-Life:He graduated from Cornell University in 1966, and from Ohio State University with a Ph.D...  A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Palo Alto, CA : Stanford University Press, 1992.
1994	Elkins, Stanley Stanley Elkins Stanley M. Elkins is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor Emeritus of history at Smith College.-Slavery:Slavery : A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life , based on Elkin's doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, was theoretically innovative and enormously influential in the...  and Eric McKitrick Eric McKitrick Eric Louis McKitrick was an American historian.-Life:He graduated from Columbia University in 1949, an M.A. in 1951 and a Ph.D. in 1959.... . The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1993.
	Jordan, Winthrop D. Winthrop Jordan Winthrop Donaldson Jordan was a professor of history and renowned writer on the history of slavery and the origins of racism in the United States....  Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy. Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana State University Press, 1993.
	Lewis, David Levering David Levering Lewis David Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois... . W. E. B. DuBois: The Biography of a Race, 1868–1919. New York : Henry Holt, 1993.
1995	Brooke, John L. John L. Brooke -Life:Brooke graduated from Cornell University in 1975, and from the University of Pennsylvania, with an M.A. and Ph.D. in 1982.He taught at Franklin & Marshall College, Amherst College, and Tufts University.He most recently teaches at Ohio State University....  The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844. Cambridge, Eng. : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
	Dittmer, John John Dittmer -Life:He graduated from Indiana University, with bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.He taught American history at Tougaloo College from 1967 to 1979, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, and at DePauw University from 1985 until 2003.... . Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press, 1994.
1996	Taylor, Alan. William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
	Reynolds, David S. David S. Reynolds David S. Reynolds is an American historian and literary critic, noted for his specialized books on the Civil War period and his expert knowledge of Walt Whitman.-Life and career:...  Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
1997	Kyvig, David E. David E. Kyvig David E. Kyvig is an American historian, and Distinguished Research Professor at Northern Illinois University.-Life:He graduated from Kalamazoo College cum laude, and from Northwestern University with a Ph.D. in 1971. He taught at Kalamazoo College, University of Tromsø, and University of Akron...  Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776–1795. Lawrence, KS : University of Kansas Press, 1996.
	Patterson, James T. James T. Patterson (historian) James T. Patterson is an American historian, Ford Foundation Professor of History emeritus at Brown University.-Awards:* 1966 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-1939* 1968 Guggenheim Fellow *...  Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 1996.
1998	Heyrman, Christine Leigh Christine Leigh Heyrman -Life:She graduated from Macalester College in 1971, and from Yale University with a Ph.D. in 1977.She is Grimble Professor of American History at the University of Delaware.... . Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
	LaFeber, Walter Walter LaFeber Walter LaFeber was a Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the Department of History at Cornell University... . The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations. New York : W. W. Norton, 1997.
	Sugrue, Thomas J. Thomas Sugrue Thomas J. Sugrue is an American historian of the twentieth-century United States at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently David Boies Professor of History and Sociology. His areas of expertise include American urban history, American political history, and the history of race...  The Origins of the Urban Crisis The Origins of the Urban Crisis The Origins of the urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, is the first book by historian and Detroit native Thomas J. Sugrue in which he examines the role race, housing and job discrimination played in the decline of Detroit. Sugrue argues that the decline of Detroit began long... : Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1997.
1999	Berlin, Ira Ira Berlin Ira Berlin is an American historian, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, and a past President of the Organization of American Historians. Berlin is the author of such books as Many Thousands Gone and Generations of Captivity.-Biography:Berlin received his Ph.D.... . Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1998.
	Morgan, Philip D. Philip D. Morgan Philip D. Morgan is a British-American historian. He has specialized in Early Modern colonial British America, and slavery in the Americas...  A Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Low Country. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1998.
	Lepore, Jill Jill Lepore Jill Lepore is a professor of American history at Harvard University and chair of Harvard's History and Literature Program. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, and her essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Scholar, and in... . The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
2000	Merrell, James H. James Merrell James Hart Merrell is the Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History at Vassar College. Professor Merrell is one of the leading scholars of early American history, and has written extensively on Native American history during the colonial era. Professor Merrell is one of only five historians to be...  Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the American Frontier. New York : W. W. Norton, 1999.
	Dower, John John Dower John Gordon Dower was a civil servant and architect, who, as secretary of the Standing Committee on National Parks, produced in 1945 the first post-war official report which set out what National Parks in England and Wales should be like:This report, and a subsequent one by Sir Arthur Hobhouse,...  Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II is a history book written by John W. Dower and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1999. The book covers the Occupation of Japan by the Allies between August 1945 and April 1952, delving into topics such as Douglas MacArthur's administration,... . New York : W. W. Norton and The New Press, 1999.
	Gordon, Linda Linda Gordon -Life:She graduated from Swarthmore College, and from Yale University with an MA and PhD.She taught at University of Massachusetts Boston and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.She teaches at New York University, and is Florence Kelley Professor of History.... . The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1999.
2001	Bellesiles, Michael Michael A. Bellesiles Michael A. Bellesiles is a former professor of American colonial and legal history at Emory University best known as the author of Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture , a book that won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 2001... . Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. (Award rescinded in 2002 because of scholarly misconduct by the author.)
	Johnson, Susan Lee Susan Lee Johnson -Life:In 1978 Johnson received her B.A. in history from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and later her M.A. at Arizona State University, and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993... . Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush. New York : W. W. Norton, 2000.
	Nasaw, David David Nasaw David Nasaw is an author and a professor of American History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is also chairman of the Center for the Humanities. He received his PhD from Columbia University... . The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
2002	Blight, David W. David W. Blight David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University. Blight was the Class of 1959 Professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years.-Life:...  Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
	Kessler-Harris, Alice Alice Kessler-Harris Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University, in New York City. She specializes in the history of American labor and the comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of women and gender.... . In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 2001.
2003	Brooks, James F. James F. Brooks James F. Brooks is an American historian whose work on slavery, captivity and kinship in the Southwest Borderlands was honored with major national history awards: the Bancroft Prize, Francis Parkman Prize, the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Frederick Douglass Prize...  Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2002.
	Gallay, Alan Alan Gallay -Life:He graduated from University of Florida, and with an M.A. and Ph.D. from Georgetown University.He taught at the University of Notre Dame, University of Mississippi, Western Washington University, Harvard University and University of Auckland, as a Fulbright Lecturer.Twice he taught for the... . The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2002.
2004	Ayers, Edward L. Edward L. Ayers Edward Lynn Ayers is an American historian. He is the current president of the University of Richmond, having served in this capacity since July 1, 2007. Prior to his appointment, he had been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 1980, most recently as the Buckner W. Clay Dean of the...  In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859–1863. New York : W. W. Norton, 2003.
	Hahn, Steven Steven Hahn Steven Hahn is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor in American History at the University of Pennsylvania.-Life:Educated at the University of Rochester, where he worked with Eugene Genovese and Herbert Gutman, Hahn received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His dissertation was overseen by... . A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
	Marsden, George M. George Marsden George M. Marsden is an historian who has written extensively on the interaction between Christianity and American culture, particularly on Christianity in American higher education and on American Evangelicalism...  Jonathan Edwards: A Life. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2003.
2005	Ely, Melvin Patrick Melvin Patrick Ely -Life:He grew up in Richmond.He graduated from Princeton University, and from the University of Texas with a master's degree in linguistics, and from Princeton University with a master’s degree in history in 1982 and with a doctoral degree in 1985.... . Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
	Klarman, Michael J. Michael Klarman Michael J. Klarman is an American legal historian, and constitutional law scholar, the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School. Formerly, he was James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of History, and Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Research Professor at the University...  From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Oxford, Eng. : Oxford University Press, 2004.
	O'Brien, Michael Michael O'Brien (historian) -Life:He was an undergraduate and research student at University of Cambridge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He taught at University of Michigan, University of Arkansas, Miami University. He teaches at Jesus College, Cambridge.-Awards:... . Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810–1860. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
2006	Clarke, Erskine Erskine Clarke -Life:He is professor emeritus of American religious history, Columbia Theological Seminary.He is married to Nancy Warren.-Awards:*2006 Mary Lawton Hodges Book Prize in Southern Studies*2006 Bancroft Prize*2006 Malcolm Bell Jr., and Muriel Barrow Bell Award... . Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2005.
	Westad, Odd Arne Odd Arne Westad Odd Arne Westad FBA is a Norwegian historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history.... . The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
	Wilentz, Sean Sean Wilentz Robert Sean Wilentz is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979.-Background:Born in 1951 in New York City, where his father Eli and uncle Ted owned a well-known Greenwich Village bookstore, the Eighth Street Bookshop, Wilentz earned... . The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York : W. W. Norton, 2005.
2007	Kirby, Jack Temple Jack T. Kirby Jack Temple Kirby was an American historian who wrote about the Southern United States and the persistent stereotyping of Southerners... . Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
	Richardson, Robert D. Robert D. Richardson Robert D. Richardson is an American historian, and biographer.-Life:He was brought up in Medford, Massachusetts and Concord, Massachusetts.He graduated from Exeter, in 1952,and from Harvard University, with a PhD.... . William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism. Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
2008	Brandt, Allan M Allan M. Brandt -Life:He graduated from Brandeis University and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in 1983.He teaches at Harvard University, where he is the Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.He was co-author of... . The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. New York : Basic Books, 2007.
	Postel, Charles Charles Postel Charles Postel is an American historian specializing in politics, reform movements, populism, and the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.-Life:He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. He is a professor of history at San Francisco State University.-Awards:* 2008... . The Populist Vision. New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
	Silver, Peter Peter Silver -Life:He was raised in Richmond, Indiana.He graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and from Yale University, with an MA and Ph.D. in 2001.He taught at Princeton University, where he held the Richard Allen Lester University Preceptorship.... . Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. New York : W. W. Norton, 2007.
2009	Andrews, Thomas G Thomas G. Andrews -Life:He graduated from Yale University, and University of Wisconsin–Madison with a Ph.D. in U.S. History, May 2003.He teaches at University of Colorado, Denver.-Awards:* 2009 Bancroft Prize... . Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2008.
	Faust, Drew Gilpin Drew Gilpin Faust Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian, college administrator, and the president of Harvard University. Faust is the first woman to serve as Harvard's president and the university's 28th president overall. Faust is the fifth woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university, and... . This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
	Hämäläinen, Pekka Pekka Hämäläinen Pekka Hämäläinen is an associate professor of history at University of California at Santa Barbara and an author.-Life:He graduated from University of Helsinki, with a Ph.D. in 2001.He taught at Texas A&M University from 2002 to 2004.... . The Comanche Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
2010	Gordon, Linda Linda Gordon -Life:She graduated from Swarthmore College, and from Yale University with an MA and PhD.She taught at University of Massachusetts Boston and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.She teaches at New York University, and is Florence Kelley Professor of History.... . Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2009.
	Holton, Woody Woody Holton Abner Linwood "Woody" Holton, III is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Richmond in Virginia and is a member of the Richmond Research Institute.-Life:He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and received his PhD from Duke University.... . Abigail Adams. New York : Free Press, 2009.
	Jacobs, Margaret D. Margaret D. Jacobs Margaret D. Jacobs is associate professor at University of Nebraska.She graduated from Stanford University with a A.B. in History, and University of California, Davis, with a P.h.D.. in History, in 1996.-Works:*, Western Historical Quarterly...  White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940. Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
2011	Dubow, Sara. Unborn America: A History of the Fetus in Modern America. New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
	Foner, Eric Eric Foner Eric Foner is an American historian. On the faculty of the Department of History at Columbia University since 1982, he writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography... . The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
	Tomlins, Christopher. Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865. Cambridge, Eng., and New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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