The winners of the 2007 Bancroft Awards, for books of "exceptional
merit in American history, biography and diplomacy," have gone to:
- Robert D. Richardson, a former professor of English at the University of Denver, for William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism (Houghton Mifflin)
- Jack Temple Kirby, professor emeritus of history at Miami University of Ohio, for Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South (University of North Carolina Press)