Bancroft Prize-winners

Columbia's pretigious Bancroft prize was awarded to Sean Wilentz for his chronicle of democracy in America.

Sean Wilentz's The Rise of American Democracy, a long, intricate chronicle of political and social changes from the American Revolution to the Civil War, was among the winners announced Tuesday for the prestigious Bancroft Prize for history.

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Other recipients of the award, handed out annually by Columbia University, were Erskine Clarke's Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic, and Odd Arne Westad's The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times.

The three winners each will receive $10,000 (€8,370). Previous winners of the Bancroft Prize, established by Columbia in 1948, include Eric Foner's Reconstruction and Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.