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Bancroft Prizes Awarded to Davis and Lewis
Columbia University honors historian David Brion Davis and Yale scholar R W B Lewis with $4,000 Bancroft Prizes for 1975 works The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770 1823 and Edith Wharton A Biography published by Cornell University Press and Harper Row respectively
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