3 histories receive Bancroft Prize

[March 18, 2010]  NEW YORK (AP) -- Biographies of Abigail Adams and Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange are among the winners of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for history.

Columbia University announced Wednesday that three authors will each receive $10,000 for the Bancroft.

The prize goes to Linda Gordon for "Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits"; Woody Holton for "Abigail Adams"; and Margaret D. Jacobs for "White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940."

Previous winners of the Bancroft, founded in 1948, include John Dower's "Embracing Defeat" and Sean Wilentz's "The Rise of American Democracy."

[Associated Press]

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