Tuesday, April 7, 2009

2009 Bancroft Prize

The winners of the 2009 Bancroft Prize, awarded by Columbia University to the authors of books of "exceptional merit in the fields of American history, biography and diplomacy," are: Thomas G. Andrews for Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War , Drew Gilpin Faust for This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War ,and Pekka Hämäläinen for The Comanche Empire .

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