Erskine Clark, professor of American religious history and director of international programs at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, and Sean Wilentz, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and director of the program in American studies at Princeton University, have been awarded the 2006 Bancroft Prize for the best books in American history.(Brief article)

Civil War History, March, 2007

Erskine Clark, professor of American religious history and director of international programs at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, and Sean Wilentz, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and director of the program in American studies at Princeton University, have been awarded the 2006 Bancroft Prize for the best books in American history.

Clarke won for Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic (Yale University Press, 2005). Wilentz won for The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (Norton, 2005).