Bancroft family - 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State

Question

One author from this family analyzed Martin Van Buren’s involvement in politics after losing the 1840 election in his book Martin Van Buren to the End of His Public Career. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this family which includes George, the “Father of American History” who founded the US Naval Academy. Another member of this family names a prize for books studying the history of the US or diplomacy.

ANSWER: Bancroft family [accept George Bancroft or Edgar Addison Bancroft or Frederic Bancroft; accept Bancroft Prize]

[10h] This George Bancroft book, published in 10 volumes, starts with the Icelandic voyages and extends to the 1780s. This large work drew on his themes of providence, progress, patria, and pan-democracy.

ANSWER: History of the United States, From the Discovery of the American Continent

[10e] In 1882, Bancroft published a book on the formation of this document. Eric Foner's The Second Founding is subtitled for how Reconstruction “Remade” this 1787 document.

ANSWER: United States Constitution [accept equivalents such as the Constitution of the US; accept The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution]

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