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An Outline of American History (2005)


Bibliography

RECENT PRIZE-WINNING BOOKS

The Bancroft Prize for American History

(Awarded by the Trustees of Columbia University)
2005

Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom From the 1790s Through the Civil War
By Melvin Patrick Ely
Alfred A. Knopf

From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
By Michael J. Klarman
Oxford University Press

Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860
By Michael O'Brien
The University of North Carolina Press

2004 

In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863
By Edward L. Ayers
W.W. Norton and Company

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration
By Steven Hahn
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Jonathan Edwards: A Life
By George M. Marsden
Yale University Press

2003 

Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
By James F. Brooks
University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
By Alan Gallay
Yale University Press

2002 

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By David W. Blight
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
By Alice Kessler-Harris
Oxford University Press

2001 

Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
By Susan Lee Johnson
W. W. Norton and Company

The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
By David Nasaw
Houghton Mifflin Company

Pulitzer Prize for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States

(Awarded by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism)
2005 
Washington's Crossing
By David Hackett Fischer
Oxford University Press
2004 
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration
By Steven Hahn
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2003 
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
By Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Company
2002 
;
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
By Louis Menand
Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux
2001 
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
By Joseph Ellis
Alfred A. Knopf

SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES

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