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Bancroft Prize

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noun

  1. one of a group of annual awards for literary achievement in American history and biography: administered by Columbia University.


Etymology

Origin of Bancroft Prize

Named after G. Bancroft

Example Sentences

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Alan Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation professor of history at the University of Virginia, has won two Pulitzer Prizes and the Bancroft Prize.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2022

Gordon is a two-time Bancroft Prize winner, the Florence Kelley Professor of History and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University, and author of the forthcoming book The Second Coming of the KKK.

From Time • Sep. 26, 2017

The Bancroft Prize was established in 1948 and is administered by Columbia.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2013

“Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901” was published by Oxford University Press in 1972 and won the Bancroft Prize the following year.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2010

He is writing a trilogy; the first volume, The Americans: The Colonial Experience, won the Bancroft Prize.

From Time Magazine Archive