navAAS Members Who Have Won A Bancroft Prize
Members, who now number more than a thousand persons, are elected by their colleagues in recognition of scholarship, for support of cultural institutions, for manifest interest in bibliographical matters, or for distinction as community or national leaders in humanistic affairs.
The Bancroft Prize has been awarded annually by Columbia University since 1948.
| 2023 | Kelly Lytle Hernández, Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands | |
| 2022 | Mia Bay, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistances Mae Ngai, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics |
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| 2019 | David Blight, Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom Lisa Brooks, Our Beloved Kin |
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| 2018 | Douglas L. Winiarski, Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England | |
| 2016 | Mary Sarah Bilder, Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention | |
| 2015 | Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History | |
| 2011 | Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery | |
| 2010 | Woody Holton, Abigail Adams | 2009 | Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
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| 2008 | Pekka Hämäläinen,The Comanche Empire | |
| 2006 | Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln |
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| 2005 | Michael O'Brien,Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860 |
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| 2004 | Edward L. Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863
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| 2003 | James F. Brooks, Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands |
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| 2002 | David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
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| 2000 | James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier | |
| 1999 | Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in The Eighteenth Century Chesapeake and Low Country |
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| 1998 | Christine Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt | |
| 1996 | David S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic |
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| 1995 | John L. Brooke, The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-I844 | |
| 1994 | Winthrop D. Jordan, Tumult and Silence at Second Creek. An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy |
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| 1992 | William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West | |
| 1991 | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on her Diary, 1785-1812 |
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| 1990 | James H. Merrell, The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal | |
| 1989 | Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution: 1863-1877 Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America |
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| 1987 | Thomas Doerflinger, A Victorian Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia | |
| 1986 | Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present |
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| 1985 | Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather | |
| 1983 | John Putman Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England | |
| 1982 |
Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 Edward Countryman , The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790 |
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| 1980 | Thomas Dublin, Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 | |
| 1979 | Anthony F.C. Wallace, Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial volution |
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| 1978 | Alfred D. Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business | |
| 1977 | Robert A. Gross, The Minutemen and Their World | |
| 1976 | David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 | |
| 1975 | Eugene Genovese, Roll Jordan, Roll | |
| 1974 | Ray Allen Billington, Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher | |
| 1972 | Carl N. Degler, Neither Black nor White Robert L. Middlekauff, The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellect 1596-1728 Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages |
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| 1970 | Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 |
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| 1969 | Winthrop D. Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 | |
| 1968 | Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Richard L. Bushman, From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 |
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| 1967 | William W. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War. The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836 | |
| 1966 | Richard B. Morris, The Peacemakers The Great Powers and American Independence | |
| 1965 | Bradford Perkins, Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812-1823 William B. Willcox, Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence |
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| 1962 | Lawrence A. Cremin, The Transformation of the School | |
| 1961 | Merrill D. Peterson, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind | |
| 1959 | Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans; The Colonial Experience | |
| 1958 | Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines, Volume IV Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order |
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| 1955 | Paul Horgan, Great River, The Rio Grande | |
| 1954 | Clinton Rossiter, Seedtime of the Republic | |
| 1952 | C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 | |
| 1953 | Herbert E. Bolton, Coronado Lawrence H. Gipson, Volume III, The Victorious Years, 1758-1760, of the series titled The Great War for the Empire George Dangerfield, The Era of Good Feelings |
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| 1951 | Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land | |
| 1949 | Samuel Eliot Morison, The Rising Sun in the Pacific | |
| 1948 | Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union Bernard DeVoto, Across the Wide Missouri |
