Foner Wins 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History

Congratulations to Eric Foner, the recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in history for his book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.  See AHA Today for more coverage.

The other two finalists were Stephanie McCurry’s Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South and Michael Rawson’s Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston.

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