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Winners of the Bancroft Prize, given annually by Columbia University to works of outstanding scholarship in the area of American history.

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1	The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn 4.05 avg rating — 4,485 ratings score: 641, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin 4.11 avg rating — 1,543 ratings score: 367, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 3.96 avg rating — 9,972 ratings score: 367, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue 4.24 avg rating — 2,256 ratings score: 297, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis 4.38 avg rating — 2,433 ratings score: 297, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner 4.18 avg rating — 6,661 ratings score: 294, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin 4.05 avg rating — 63 ratings score: 290, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 by Eric Foner 4.22 avg rating — 6,399 ratings score: 290, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon 4.26 avg rating — 3,685 ratings score: 283, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust 4.04 avg rating — 7,559 ratings score: 276, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese 4.03 avg rating — 2,014 ratings score: 266, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor 4.02 avg rating — 623 ratings score: 258, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. Wood 4.14 avg rating — 2,114 ratings score: 238, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Across The Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto 4.09 avg rating — 510 ratings score: 235, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol 1) by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 4.21 avg rating — 471 ratings score: 232, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Origins of the New South, 1877–1913 by C. Vann Woodward 4.12 avg rating — 243 ratings score: 220, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. 4.05 avg rating — 351 ratings score: 199, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War by Thomas G. Andrews 3.93 avg rating — 678 ratings score: 193, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 by Anne F. Hyde 4.07 avg rating — 223 ratings score: 188, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz 3.97 avg rating — 1,939 ratings score: 187, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden 4.34 avg rating — 2,302 ratings score: 187, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War by Melvin Patrick Ely 4.02 avg rating — 143 ratings score: 182, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 by Lizabeth Cohen 3.85 avg rating — 1,124 ratings score: 173, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION 1770 TO 1823 by David Brion Davis 4.09 avg rating — 82 ratings score: 167, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore 3.94 avg rating — 2,280 ratings score: 158, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	DUST BOWL 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: The Southern Plains in the 1930s by Donald Worster 3.79 avg rating — 933 ratings score: 156, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970 by Stephan Thernstrom 3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings score: 156, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Soviet-American Relations, Vol. 1: Russia Leaves the War, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan 4.03 avg rating — 67 ratings score: 126, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic by Erskine Clarke 4.06 avg rating — 168 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen 4.17 avg rating — 1,911 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry by Paul Starr 4.17 avg rating — 1,453 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present by Jacqueline A. Jones 4.19 avg rating — 280 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 by Margaret D. Jacobs 4.14 avg rating — 160 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist by Nick Salvatore 3.90 avg rating — 260 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks 3.80 avg rating — 217 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Walt Whitman's America by David S. Reynolds 4.16 avg rating — 642 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901 by Louis R. Harlan 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Tumult And Silence At Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy by Winthrop D. Jordan 3.60 avg rating — 42 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan 3.93 avg rating — 44 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670 - 1717 by Alan Gallay (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 184 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush by Susan Lee Johnson 3.76 avg rating — 244 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry by Philip D. Morgan 3.85 avg rating — 110 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by John Dittmer 4.28 avg rating — 222 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow by Neil R. McMillen 3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal by James H. Merrell 3.93 avg rating — 70 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon by Michael S. Sherry 3.69 avg rating — 77 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom by Peter Kolchin 4.10 avg rating — 80 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson 4.04 avg rating — 2,108 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 by Suzanne Lebsock 3.64 avg rating — 61 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 115 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 by Thomas Dublin 3.62 avg rating — 72 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn by Alan Dawley 3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1835 by B.W. Higman it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Edith Wharton by R.W.B. Lewis 4.09 avg rating — 451 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States by Carl N. Degler 3.72 avg rating — 87 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 by Robert Middlekauff 3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South by Dan T. Carter 4.29 avg rating — 172 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan 4.21 avg rating — 387 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution by Norman Gordon Levin 3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	A History of Negro Education in the South: From 1619 to the Present by Henry Allen Bullock 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 50, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 by Richard L. Bushman 3.69 avg rating — 55 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929-1946 by Theodore Friend 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 by William E. Leuchtenburg 3.91 avg rating — 470 ratings score: 46, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison by John Lovell Thomas 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 45, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Wilson, Volume III: The Struggle for Neutrality, 1914-1915 by Arthur S. Link really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 44, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Wilson, Volume II: The New Freedom by Arthur S. Link 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 41, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield 3.81 avg rating — 57 ratings score: 40, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Ordeal of the Union, Vol 3: The Improvised War, 1861-1862/War Becomes Revolution, 1862-1863 by Allan Nevins 4.48 avg rating — 80 ratings score: 38, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars