The good deeds of Joe Bancroft — and the Abdalla family that followed him as leaders of a major McComb industry — will ...

The Pierce family seems to be inspired by the real-life Bancroft family, who owned Dow Jones & Company. In real life, Murdoch purchased Dow Jones & Company, which owned the Wall Street Journal ...

By Jennifer Schuessler A sweeping history of Native Americans and a study of the creation of the port of Los Angeles in the 19th century have won this year’s Bancroft Prize, one of the most ...