“Columbia Announces 2008 Bancroft Prize Winners” (news item)

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<p>Columbia</a> Announces 2008 Bancroft Prize Winners</p>

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<p>A Princeton historian is one of three winners of this year’s Bancroft Prizes in American history. The other two winners were Allan Brandt of Harvard and Charles Postel of Cal State Sacramento.</p>

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<p>“One of the most coveted honors in the field of history, the Bancroft is awarded annually by the Trustees of Columbia University to the authors of books of exceptional merit in the fields of American history, biography and diplomacy. The 2008 awards are for books published in 2007. </p>

<p>“Peter Silver, author of Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America, is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University, where he holds the Richard Allen Lester University Preceptorship. He writes on American Indian history, religious history, and comparative colonial and imperial histories.”</p>