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	The Bancroft Prizes: Description & Guidelines
		The Bancroft Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University in the City of New York.
		Previous winners of the Bancroft Prize are eligible for an award in a later year.
		Works submitted in competition may be sent to: Attention: Bancroft Prize Committee, Columbia University, c/o The Office of the University Librarian, 517 Butler Library, Mail Code 1101, 535 West 114th Street, New York, NY 10027, preferably as published, but in no case later than November 1, 2005.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eguides/amerihist/bancroft.html (342 words)

	Columbia News ::: Three Authors Honored with Bancroft Prizes
		The Bancroft Prize, one of the most distinguished awards in the field of history, is presented annually to the authors of books of exceptional merit and distinction in the fields of American history and biography.
		He is the recipient of the 2001 The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, also for The Chief.
		The Bancroft Prizes were established at Columbia in 1948 with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, the historian, author and librarian of the Department of State, to provide steady development of library resources, to support instruction and research in American history and diplomacy and to recognize exceptional books in the field.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/01/04/bancroft.html (1082 words)

	Klarman Awarded Bancroft Prize
		Law professor Michael J. Klarman is among three recipients of this year’s Bancroft Prize, one of the most coveted honors in the field of history.
		Also receiving the prize this year are Melvin Patrick Ely for “Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War” (Alfred A. Knopf) and Michael O’Brien for “Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860” (two volumes, The University of North Carolina Press).
		The Bancroft Prizes were established at Columbia in 1948 with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, a historian and librarian of the Department of State, to support instruction and research in American history and diplomacy and to recognize exceptional books in the field.
	www.law.virginia.edu /home2002/html/news/2005_spr/bancroft.htm (457 words)

	Bancroft, George on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As a reward for his speeches and writings for the Democratic cause he was appointed (1837) collector of the port of Boston by President Martin Van Buren, and as the dispenser of the patronage of that office Bancroft was the Democratic boss in Massachusetts.
		Bancroft, an antislavery Democrat, came to support Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War and on Feb. 12, 1866, delivered the official memorial address on Lincoln before the Congress (he had also been the official eulogist of Andrew Jackson in 1845).
		Columbia Announces 2004 Bancroft Prize Winners; Three Esteemed Historians - Edward L. Ayers, Steven Hahn and George M. Marsden - to Receive Awards Monetary Value of Prestigious Prize Significantly Increases.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BancroftG1.asp (639 words)

	Columbia University :: Columbia University Announces 2005 Bancroft Prize Winners
		The Bancroft Prize, which includes an award of $10,000 to each author, is administered by James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia.
		Bancroft jurors commented, "In what can only be described as magisterial fashion, O'Brien has chronicled the lives and works of antebellum Southern writers and thinkers-from dissenters like the Grimke sisters to the man Richard Hofstader called the Marx of the Master Class, John C. Calhoun, and almost everyone in between."
		The Bancroft Prizes were established at Columbian 1948 with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, the historian, author and librarian of the Department of State, to provide steady development of library resources, to support instruction and research in American history and diplomacy, and to recognize exceptional books in the field.
	sev.prnewswire.com /education/20050317/NYW11216032005-1.html (691 words)

	Bancroft Prize in 2001
		Michael Bellesiles, an historian at Emory University in Atlanta, won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 2001, but he has now been forced to resign from his university position, because charges of "fraud" and "intentional deception." Columbia University reportedly is considering withdrawing his Bancroft Prize.
		The book even won the Bancroft Prize without anyone on this prestigious panel bothering to check his footnotes thoroughly.
		The academics who nominated him for the Bancroft Prize are no longer supporting him.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2002/inter111102.htm (1135 words)

	Melissa Seckora on Michael Bellesiles on National Review Online
		In a statement released Friday, Columbia University announced that the school's trustees had voted to rescind the prize because Bellesiles "had violated basic norms of acceptable scholarly conduct." Arming America "had not and does not meet the standards they had established for the Bancroft Prize," the trustees found.
		It is the first time the prize for "distinguished works" in American history and diplomacy has been withdrawn since it was first awarded in 1948.
		Before the Bancroft Prize was awarded in 2001, scholars had already shown that Bellesiles's main probate data were mathematically impossible, and that he had miscounted, misinterpreted, and made up substantial portions of information.
	www.nationalreview.com /seckora/seckora121702.asp (793 words)

	UC Davis Dateline, April 5, 1996
		Taylor is being awarded the prize for his book William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, published by Alfred A. Knopf.
		The prizes were presented last week at the 49th annual awards during a fl-tie dinner on the Columbia campus.
		The prize was established at Columbia in 1948 with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, a historian, author and librarian of the Department of State, to recognize books of exceptional merit in American history, biography or diplomacy.
	www-dateline.ucdavis.edu /040596/Taylor.html (374 words)

	Melvin Patrick Ely wins prestigious Bancroft Prize \|
		Established at Columbia University in 1948, the Bancroft is one of the highest honors a book of history can receive and is considered by many on par with the Pulitzer Prize.
		One of the most coveted honors in the field of history, the Bancroft Prize is awarded annually by the Trustees of Columbia University to authors of books of exceptional merit and distinction in the fields of American history, biography and diplomacy.
		The Bancroft Prize — established with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, the historian, author and librarian of the U.S. Department of State -- includes an award of $10,000 to each author.
	www.wm.edu /news?id=4371 (584 words)

	United Press International - Life & Mind - Prize rescinded for 'Arming America' book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Bancroft Prize is given for works judged to be "of enduring worth and impeccable scholarship that make a major contribution to our understanding of the American past."
		Columbia's prize committee issued the award though there were several indication it was based on flawed research.
		But before the Bancroft Prize was awarded the previous April, scholars already had shown that Bellesiles's main probate data -- through which he tried to show that few guns were inherited as parts of estates -- were mathematically impossible.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20021217-114343-7257r (1271 words)

	Columbia Revokes Bancroft Prize for Arming America
		Historian Michael Bellesiles has been stripped of the Bancroft Prize, the most prestigious award in the field of American history, by Columbia University.
		Columbia's trustees declared at a December 7 meeting that Bellesiles had "violated acceptable norms of scholarly conduct." In addition to revoking the Bancroft Prize, the school demanded that the $4,000 given with the prize be returned.
		An article defending his thesis cited probate records from eighteenth-century Vermont that he claims described specific guns as "broken" and "old." The documents merely listed the items as "firearm" and "gun" without comment on their age or condition.
	www.academia.org /campus_reports/2003/january_2.html (269 words)

	Who Do I Have To Blow To Win The Bancroft Prize In American History? \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		At the risk of seeming immodest, I firmly believe that my recently published book, Taft, is the definitive biography of the man, breathing new life into an all-too-overlooked president better known for his girth than for his considerable skills as a statesman and orator.
		That said, it came as a great surprise to me when, on Jan. 14, the nominees for a certain prize were announced, and my name was not among them.
		But I guess as far as the Bancroft Prize committee is concerned, that only matters if I'm slobbering on their knobs.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/33328 (706 words)

	Ayers wins Bancroft Prize: 03-26-2004
		The Bancroft Prize, one of the most coveted honors in the field of history, is awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University to the authors of books of exceptional merit in the fields of American history, biography and diplomacy.
		In 2004, however, the prize increased significantly to $10,000, according to prize administrator James Neal, vice president for information services and university librarian at Columbia.
		The Bancroft Prizes were established at Columbia with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, the historian, author and librarian of the Department of State, to provide steady development of library resources, to support instruction and research in American history and diplomacy and to recognize exceptional books in the field.
	www.virginia.edu /insideuva/2004/06/ayers_bancroft.html (398 words)

	DPL: Western History / Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Award-winning photojournalist and historian Richard Steven Street will accept the prize and present a slideshow and talk titled "The Historian as Photographer." Street will share his photographs and personal experiences living with and documenting the lives of California farm workers.
		The Caroline Bancroft History Prize is awarded annually by the Denver Public Library to authors of nonfiction books about Colorado or the West.
		Established as a bequest in 1986 in honor of Caroline Bancroft, a noted chronicler of Colorado history, the award allows the Western History/Genealogy Department to recognize authors who feature new perspectives about the West and who excel in research and writing.
	www.denverpubliclibrary.net /whg/bancroft.html (704 words)

	Bancroft, Edward on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		BANCROFT, EDWARD [Bancroft, Edward] 1744-1821, spy in the American Revolution, b.
		Bancroft in 1778 gave advance information of the Franco-American alliance to the British.
		Sex, science, and Kinsey: a conversation with Dr. John Bancroft.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/E-B1ancroftE1.asp (288 words)

	History News Network
		RE: Bellesiles & The Bancroft Prize by Ted Asregadoo (December 18, 2002 at 4:31 PM)
		RE: Bellesiles & The Bancroft Prize by Kurt Jahnke (December 15, 2002 at 10:09 PM)
		RE: Bellesiles, The Bancroft Prize And Zecker by Dave LaCourse (December 16, 2002 at 3:51 PM)
	hnn.us /board.php?id=1157 (351 words)

	Gallery of Guns - Shooting Times - News Center
		"Along with the prize, Professor Bellesiles should be required to return the $4,000 cash award that came with it," said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb.
		The Bancroft Prize is one of the most distinguished awards in the field of American history.
		Columbia University awards it annually to authors who publish works of "exceptional merit and distinction." Bellesiles received the award in April 2001, and within months, an investigation was launched into allegations of academic misconduct.
	galleryofguns.com /Shootingtimes/Articles/displayarticles.asp?id=3359 (431 words)

	The Bancroft and Bellesiles
		They concluded that he had violated basic norms of scholarship and the high standards expected of Bancroft Prize winners.
		The Trustees voted to rescind the Prize during their regularly scheduled meeting on December 7, 2002 and have notified Professor Bellesiles of their decision.
		In making their decision, the Trustees emphasized that the judgment to rescind the Bancroft Prize was based solely on the evaluation of the questionable scholarship of the work and had nothing to do with the book's content or the author's point of view.
	hnn.us /articles/1157.html (421 words)

	Press Release: Author of Arming America May Be Stripped Of Bancroft Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In an exclusive interview, Dr. Roger Lane, a winner of Columbia University's prestigious Bancroft Prize who has also served on the jury that awards this Prize, says that those individuals who awarded this Prize for 2001 to Emory Professor Michael A. Bellesiles "are thinking about revoking it.
		Bellesiles won the Bancroft Prize for his book Arming America: The Origins Of A National Gun Culture published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2000.
		Lane, who won the Bancroft Prize in 1987 for his book "Roots of Violence In Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900â" published by Harvard University Press, is semi-retired from his position as the Benjamin R. Collins Research Professor Of Social Sciences at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.
	www.gunowners.org /pr0205.htm (261 words)

	AHA Members Win Bancroft Awards
		The Bancroft Prize is awarded annually by the Trustees of Columbia University to the authors of books of exceptional merit in the fields of American history, biography and diplomacy.
		His earlier book on the roots of Southern populism received both the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians.
		For the first time, the Bancroft awards ceremony included recognition of the recipient of the Bancroft Dissertation Award, which supports the publication of a Columbia doctoral student's dissertation.
	www.historians.org /perspectives/issues/2004/0405/0405new6.cfm (734 words)

	http (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Prize, says that those individuals who awarded this Prize for 2001 to Emory
		Lane, who won the Bancroft Prize in 1987 for his book "Roots of Violence In Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900" published by Harvard University Press, is
		Bancroft Prize for 2001 "are thinking about revoking it.
	pages.prodigy.net /vanhooser/Bancroft_Award.htm (225 words)

	James Patterson, Bancroft Prize winner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Established at Columbia University in 1948, the Bancroft is one of the most prestigious honors a book of history can receive.
		It is considered by many on par with the Pulitzer Prize, and in some circles is considered more acclaimed because it is judged by an anonymous jury of peers.
		Patterson hopes to do the same when he turns his attention to a book that begins in the 1970s and proceeds almost to the end of the century.
	www.brown.edu /Administration/George_Street_Journal/Bancroft.html (472 words)

	Penn: Office of University Communications: Penn History Professor Steven Hahn Wins Bancroft Prize
		One of the most coveted honors in the field of history, the Bancroft Prize is awarded annually by the Trustees of Columbia University to authors of exceptional books in the fields of American history, biography and diplomacy.
		The awards, which have a monetary prize of $10,000, will be presented April 21.
		The Bancroft Prizes were established at Columbia in 1948 with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft to provide steady development of library resources, support instruction and research in American history and diplomacy and to recognize exceptional books in the field.
	www.upenn.edu:9000 /pennnews/article.php?id=610&print=1 (261 words)

	Prize rescinded for (spurious) 'Arming America' book
		He simply passed the buck saying that it was not the job of the Bancroft Committe to ensure that they were endorsing proper work.
		Lecture circuit is more likely, but having the Bancroft prize pulled makes him damaged goods -- even at liberal universities.
		Give it a year of revisionist denials and he'll be a martyr to VRWC machinations and the Bancroft Committee's administrative cowardice - in other words, a 'saint' to those with a will to believe.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/808197/posts (2861 words)

	Amherst College : News & Events: News Releases : Bancroft Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		AMHERST, Mass.— David W. Blight, the Class of 1959 Professor of History and Black Studies at Amherst College, has received a 2002 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy awarded by the Trustees of Columbia University for Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory ($29.95, 512 pp., Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2001).
		Race and Reunion is a study of how Americans—fl and white, from North and South, soldiers and politicians, writers and editors—made sense of America's most wrenching war.
		A pioneer of the emerging field of memory studies, Blight is also the author of the award-winning Frederick Douglass’s Civil War (1989) and many other books and articles.
	www.amherst.edu /~pubaff/news/news_releases/01/bancroft.html (208 words)

	The Bancrofts Anounced Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Amazingly, as I can tell can see from the list of Bancroft prize winners, I never read Gaddis, or Lane or Palmer's prize-winning books, just those merely considered to be, perhaps, their second or third most influential books (like Strategies of Containment by Gaddis).
		And Bellesiles’ prize was rightly revoked, and his name appears nowhere on the list of award-winners today.
		I don't think a former recipient of a Jefferson Lecture appointment from the NEH "needs" a Bancroft, but that doesn't mean he doesn't deserve one, or that the people who give out the award, in order to remain relevant, should not have given him one by now.
	thefactis.org /TheThingIs/archive/2006/03/15/16003.aspx (4441 words)

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