The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded annually since 1917 by Columbia University. The prize recognizes works of exceptional merit in all areas of journalism, fiction, non-fiction, history, autobiography, and poetry. 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Letters in History Bernard Bailyn Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986). Bailyn received a 1977 Interpretive Research Award. 1999 Pulitzer Prize in History Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). Wallace received a 1993 Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. 1979 Pulitzer Prize in History Don E. Fehrenbacher The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978). Fehrenbacher received a 1975 Fellowship for Independent Study and Research. 1986 Pulitzer Prize in Biography Elizabeth Frank Louise Bogan: A Portrait (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985). Frank received a 1978 Fellowship for Independent Study and Research. 2004 Pulitzer Prize in History Steven Hahn A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2003). Hahn received a 1981 Summer Stipend. 1994 Pulitzer Prize in Biography Joan D. Hedrick Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). Hedrick received a 1987 Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History David M. Kennedy Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-45 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). Kennedy received a 1987 Centers Fellowship through the Center for Advanced Study, Stanford University. 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Letters in History Dumas Malone Jefferson and His Time. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1968-75). Malone received a 1968 Interpretive Research Award. 1988 Pulitzer Prize in History James M. McPherson Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988). McPherson received a 1982 Centers Fellowship. 2002 Pulitzer Prize in History Louis Menand The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001). Menand received a 1990 Fellowship for University Teachers. 1997 Pulitzer Prize in History Jack Rakove Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997). Rakove received a 1985 Fellowship for University Teachers. 1976 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism James Risser Des Moines Register. Series on corruption in the grain exporting trade. Risser received a 1973 NEH Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. 1979 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism James Risser Des Moines Register. Seven-part series on agricultural pollution. Risser received a 1973 Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Stacy Schiff Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) (New York: Random House, 1999). Schiff received a 1998 Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Biography William Taubman Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004). Taubman received a 1991 Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. 1996 Pulitzer Prize in History Alan Taylor William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995). Taylor received a 1993 Centers Fellowship. 1990 Pulitzer Prize in History Laurel T. Ulrich A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990). Ulrich received a 1984 Fellowship for University Teachers and 1982 Summer Stipend.

The Bancroft Prize has been awarded annually by Columbia University since 1948. The prize recognizes books of exceptional merit in American history, biography, or diplomacy. 2002 Bancroft Prize James F. Brooks Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002). Brooks received a 1994 Dissertation Grant, as well as two Independent Research Institution awards (1998, 1999). 1991 Bancroft Prize Lisabeth Cohen Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Cohen received a 1987 Summer Stipend. 1981 Bancroft Prize (co-winner) Edward Countryman A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981). Johns Hopkins University Press received a 1992 Publication Subvention. 1980 Bancroft Prize (co-winner) Robert Dallek Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1923-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979). Dallek received a 1976 Fellowship for Independent Study and Research. 1980 Bancroft Prize (co-winner) Thomas Dublin Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979). Dublin received a 1976 Summer Stipend. 1988 Bancroft Award Eric Foner Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New York: Harper and Row, 1988). Foner received a 1983 Fellowship for Independent Study and Research. 2002 Bancroft Prize Alan Gallay The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002). Gallay received a 1997 Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. 2001 Bancroft Prize Susan Lee Johnson Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000). Johnson received a 1996 Independent Research Institution award. 1994 Bancroft Prize Winthrop Jordan Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993). Jordan received a 1988 Travel to Collections grant and Louisiana State University Press received a 1992 Publication Subvention. 1997 Bancroft Prize David E. Kyvig Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995 (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1996). Kyvig received a 1986 Summer Stipend. 1993 Bancroft Prize Melvyn P. Leffler A Preponderance of Power: National Security, The Truman Administration, and the Cold War (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992). Leffler received a 1979 Centers Fellowship and Stanford University Press received a 1991 Publication Subvention. 1976 Bancroft Prize R.W. B. Lewis Edith Wharton: A Biography (New York: Harper and Row, 1975). Lewis received a 1972 Interpretive Research Award 1990 Bancroft Prize Neil R. McMillen Dark Journey: Black Missisippians in the Age of Jim Crow (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1989). McMillen received a 1981 Summer Stipend. 2000 Bancroft Prize James H. Merrell Into the Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000). Merrell received a 1990 Summer Stipend and a 1991 Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. 1996 Bancroft Prize David S. Reynolds Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995). Reynolds received a 1989 Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. 1983 Bancroft Prize Nicholas A. Salvatore Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983). Salvatore received a 1979 Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. 1981 Bancroft Prize (co-winner) Jean Strouse Alice James: A Biography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980). Strouse received a 1976 Fellowship for Independent Study and Research. 1996 Bancroft Prize Alan Taylor William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995). Taylor received a 1993-94 Independent Research Instutition award. 1990 Bancroft Prize Laurel T. Ulrich A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990). Ulrich received a 1984 Fellowship for University Teachers and a 1982 Summer Stipend. 1970 Bancroft Prize Gordon S. Wood The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1969). Wood received a 1972 Interpretive Research Award.