バンクロフト賞(The Bancroft Prize)は、1948年にフレデリック・バンクロフトの寄付によって設立された米国の学術賞であり、毎年コロンビア大学から授与される。

外交、もしくは南北アメリカの歴史をテーマとした書籍で、その前年に初版が刊行されたものが対象で、毎年2名に対して授与される。同賞は、当該分野を対象としたものとしては最も権威ある賞とされている。受賞は複数回可能で受賞者の国籍は問わない。

受賞作の一覧

1948年 Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union (2.vols). (Charles Scribner and Sons, 1947). Bernard DeVoto, Across the Wide Missouri. (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947).

1949年 Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins: am intimate History. (Harper & Brothers, 1948). 村上光彦訳『ルーズヴェルトとホプキンズ(1・2)』(みすず書房, 1957年) Samuel E. Morison The Rising Sun in the Pacific:1931-April 1942. History of United States naval operations in World War II. (Little, Brown and Company, 1948). 中野五郎訳『太平洋の旭日――1931年-1942年4月(上・下)』(改造社, 1950年)

1950年 Lawrence H. Gipson, The Great War for the Empire: the Victorious Year, 1758-1760 (of the series titled The British Empire before the American Revolution). (Alfred A. Knopf, 1949). Herbert E. Bolton, Coronado. (Whittlesey House and the University of New Mexico Press, 1949).

1951年 Arthur N. Holcombe, Our more Perfect Union: from Eighteenth-Century Principles to Twentieth Century Practice. (Harvard University Press, 1950). Henry N. Smith, Virgin Land: the American West as Symbol and Myth. (Harvard University Press, 1950).

1952年 Merlo J. Pusey, Charles Evans Hughes (2.vols). (The Macmillan Company, 1951). Comer. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913. (Louisiana State University Press, 1951).

1953年 George Dangerfield, The Era of Good Feelings. (Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., 1952). Eric F. Goldman, Rendezvous with Destiny: History of Modern American Reform. (Alfred A. Knopf, 1952).

1954年 Clinton Rossiter, Seedtime of the Republic: the Origin of the American Tradition of Political Liberty. (Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., 1953). William L. Langer and S. Everett Gleason, The Undeclared War, 1940-1941. (Harper & Brothers, 1953).

1955年 Paul Horgan, Great River: the Rio Grande in North American History. (Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1954). Leonard D. White, The Jacksonians: a Study in Administrative History, 1829-1861. (The Macmillan Company, 1954).

1956年 Elizabeth Stevenson, Henry Adams: a Biography. (The Macmillan Company, 1955). James. G. Randall and Richard N. Current, Last Full Measure: Lincoln the President. (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955).

1957年 George F. Kennan, Russia leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920. (Princeton University Press, 1956). 村上光彦訳『ソヴェト革命とアメリカ――第一次大戦と革命』(みすず書房, 1958年)

1958年 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,The Age of Roosevelt: The Crisis of the Old Order. (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957). 救仁郷繁訳『ローズヴェルトの時代(1)旧体制の危機 1919-1933』(論争社, 1962年) Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines Vol.4. (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957).

1959年 Ernest Samuels, Henry Adams, the Middle Years. (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958). Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: the Colonial Experience. (Random House, 1958).

1960年 R. R. Palmer, The Age of the Democratic Revolution: a Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 Vol.1. (Princeton University Press, 1959). Margaret Leech, In the Days of McKinley. (Harper & Brothers, 1959).

1961年 Merrill D. Peterson, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind. (Oxford University Press, 1960). Arthur S. Link, Wilson:the Struggle for Neutrality, 1914-1915. (Princeton University Press, 1960).

1962年 Lawrence A. Cremin, The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957. (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1961). Felix Gilbert, To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy. (Princeton University Press, 1961). Martin B. Duberman, Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886. (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961).

1963年 Page Smith, John Adams. (Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962). Roberta Wohlstetter, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. (Stanford University Press, 1962). 岩島久夫・斐子訳『パールハーバー ――トップは情報洪水の中でいかに決断すべきか』(読売新聞社, 1987年) John G. Stoessinger, The Might of Nations: World Politics in Our Time. (Random House, 1962).

1964年 William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. (Harper & Row, 1963). John L. Thomas, The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison. (Little, Brown and Company, 1963). Paul Seabury, Power, Freedom, and Diplomacy: the Foreign Policy of the United States of America. (Random House, 1963).

1965年 Bradford Perkins, Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812-1823 (the University of California Press, 1965). William B. Willcox, Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence. (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1965). Dorothy Borg, The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1933-1938. (Harvard University Press, 1964).

1966年 Richard B. Morris, The Peacemakers: the Great Powers and American Independence. (Harper & Row, 1965). Theodore W. Friend III, Between Two Empires: the Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929-1946. (Yale University Press, 1965).

1967年 William W. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War: the Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836. (Harper & Row, 1966). Charles G. Sellers, James K. Polk, Vol.2. Continentalist, 1843-1846. (Princeton University Press, 1966). James Sterling Young, The Washington Community, 1800-1828. (Columbia University Press, 1966).

1968年 Henry Allen Bullock, A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present. (Harvard University Pressm, 1967). Richard L. Bushman, From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765. (Harvard University Press, 1967). Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967).

1969年 Winthrop D. Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812. (the University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1968). N. Gordon Levin Jr., Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution. (Oxford University Press, 1968). Rexford Guy Tugwell, The Brains Trust. (The Viking Press, 1968).

1970年 Charles Coleman Sellers, Charles Wilson Peale. (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969). Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. (University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1969). Dan T. Carter, Scottsboro: a Tragedy of the American South. (Louisiana State University Press, 1969).

1971年 Erik Barnouw, The Image Empire: a History of Broadcasting in the United States, Vol.3: from 1953. (Oxford University Press, 1970). 岩崎昶訳『映像の帝国――アメリカ・テレビ現代史』(サイマル出版会, 1973年) David M. Kennedy, Birth Control in America: the Career of Margaret Sanger. (Yale University Press, 1970). Joseph Frazier Wall, Andrew Carnegie. (Oxford University Press, 1970).

1972年 Carl N. Degler, Neither Black nor White. (The Macmillan Company, 1971). Robert Middlekauff, The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728. (Oxford University Press, 1971). Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America: the Northern Voyages. (Oxford University Press, 1971).

1973年 Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. (Atlantic, Little, Brown and Company, 1972). John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War. (Columbia University Press, 1972). Louis R. Harlan, Booker T. Washington: the Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901. (Oxford University Press, 1972).

1974年 Ray Allen Billington, Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher. (Oxford University Press, 1973). Townsend Hoopes, The Devil and John Foster Dulles. (Atlantic, Little, Brown and Company, 1973). Stephan Thernstrom, The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970. (Harvard University Press, 1973).

1975年 Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, Time on the Cross: the Economics of American Negro Slavery and Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods-a Supplement. (Little, Brown and Company, 1974). 田口芳弘ほか訳『苦難のとき――アメリカ・ニグロ奴隷制の経済学』(創文社, 1981年) Alexander L. George and Richard Smoke, Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice. (Columbia University Press, 1974). Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: the World the Slaves made. (Pantheon Books, Inc., 1974).

1976年 David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823. (Cornell University Press, 1975). R. W. B. Lewis, Edith Wharton: a Biography. (Harper & Row, 1975).

1977年 Alan Dawley, Class and Community: the Industrial Revolution in Lynn. (Harvard University Press, 1976). Robert A. Gross, The Minutemen and their World. (Hill and Wang, 1976). 宇田佳正・大山綱夫訳『ミニットマンの世界――アメリカ独立革命民衆史』(北海道大学図書刊行会, 1980年) Barry W. Higman, Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834. (Cambridge University Press, 1976).

1978年 Alfred D. Chandler Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. (Harvard University Press, 1977). 鳥羽欽一郎・小林袈裟治訳『経営者の時代――アメリカ産業における近代企業の成立(上・下)』(東洋経済新報社, 1979年) Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860. (Harvard University Press, 1977).

1979年 Christopher Thorne, Allies of a Kind: the United States, Britain, and the War against Japan, 1941-1945. (Oxford University Press, 1978). 市川洋一訳『米英にとっての太平洋戦争(上・下)』(草思社, 1995年) Anthony F. C. Wallace, Rockdale: the Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution. (Alfred Knopf, Inc., 1978).

1980年 Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945. (Oxford University Press, 1979). Thomas Dublin, Women at Work: the Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860. (Columbia University Press, 1979). Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: the Southern Plains in the 1930s.(Oxford University Press, 1979).

1981年 Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century. (Little, Brown and Company, 1980). 浅野輔訳『現代史の目撃者――リップマンとアメリカの世紀』(TBSブリタニカ, 1982年) Jean Strouse, Alice James: A Biography. (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980).

1982年 Edward Countryman, A People in Revolution: the American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790. (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981). Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: the Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865. (Cambridge University Press, 1981).

1983年 John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. (Oxford University Press, 1982). Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist. (University of Illinois Press, 1982).

1984年 Louis R. Harlan, Booker T. Washington: the Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915. (Oxford University Press, 1983). Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine: the Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry. (Basic Books, Inc., 1983).

1985年 Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860. (Norton & Co., Inc. , 1984). Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather. (Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1984).

1986年 Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: the Suburbanization of the United States. (Oxford University Press, 1985). Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present. (Basic Books, Inc., 1985). 風呂本惇子ほか訳『愛と哀――アメリカ黒人女性労働史』(学芸書林, 1997年)

1987年 Thomas Doerflinger, A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. (University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1986). Roger Lane, Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900. (Harvard University Press, 1986).

1988年 Michael S. Sherry, The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon. (Yale University Press, 1987). Peter Kolchin, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. (Harvard University Press, 1987).

1989年 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. (Harper & Row, 1988).