Award overlap
Books That Won Both the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize (Biography and History)
4 books won both the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize (Biography and History) between 2011 and 2025, most recently Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (2025/2025). 6 more were recognized by both without winning both.
Years are award years. Bancroft Prize · Pulitzer Prize (Biography and History)
Won both
| Book | Author | Bancroft Prize | Pulitzer Prize (Biography and History) |
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| Native Nations: A Millennium in North America | Kathleen DuVal |
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| G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century | Beverly Gage |
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| Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy | Heather Ann Thompson |
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| The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery | Eric Foner |
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Recognized by both
| Book | Author | Bancroft Prize | Pulitzer Prize (Biography and History) |
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| Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion | Elliott West |
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| Empire of Cotton: A Global History | Sven Beckert |
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| Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History | John Fabian Witt |
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| Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 | Anne F. Hyde |
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| This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War | Drew Gilpin Faust |
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| The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln | Sean Wilentz |
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