Recs if you like This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War...

Pair with "Level 12 – American History" book.

The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. The award goes back to 1948 with two winners every year, so I'm adding them starting with the most recent.

Books cited in Hayley Campbell’s “All the Living and the Dead.” Incomplete as of 6/12/26.