Congratulations to Current contributing editor Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt! She received a Christianity Today “Award of Merit” in the “Culture and Arts” category for her book Redeeming Vision: A Christian Guide to Looking at and Learning from Art. Here are the […]
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Current’s 2023 Pushcart Nominations
Please join us in congratulating our nominees for this year’s Pushcart Prize, which is awarded by the Pushcart Press, publisher of the annual Best of the Small Presses, “the most honored literary series in America.” These are: “The Hidden Seasons […]
Andrew Wehrman wins the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Gomes Memorial Book Prize
The Central Michigan University history professor won the prize for his book The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution. Listen to our interview with Andrew Wehrman in Episode 107 of The Way of Improvement Leads […]
Zenger House announces its 2023 prize winners.
Zenger House is: a Christian foundation that exists to help journalistic start-ups and honor writers who do street-level reporting and write excellent stories that show biblical truth, even if that’s not a writer’s goal. The foundation awards annual prizes to encourage outstanding writers […]
2023 Pulitzer Prizes announced
Here are few of the prizes that caught my eye: Feature Writing (Finalist): Elizabeth Bruenig for her work on the death penalty in Alabama. History (Winner): Jefferson Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power History (Finalist): […]
Christianity Today announces its 2023 book awards
Here you go: Book of the Year: Uche Anizor, Overcoming Apathy: Gospel Hope for Those Who Struggle to Care Apologetics and Evangelism: Glen Scrivener, The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality […]
The American Historical Association announces 2022 prize winners
Read the full list here. Here are a few that caught my eye: The Albert J. Beveridge Award in the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present: Roberto Saba (Wesleyan Univ.) for American Mirror: The United […]
Misha Matsumoto Yee is the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History National History Teacher of the Year!
Congratulations! Here is the press release: NEW YORK, NY (September 27, 2022) –The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced today that Misha Matsumoto Yee, a history teacher at St. Andrew’s Schools in Honolulu, Hawaii, has been named the 2022 National History Teacher of […]
Mia Bay and Mae Ngai win the Bancroft Prize
It is American history’s most prestigious award. Here is Jennifer Schuesller at The New York Times: An innovative study of Black Americans’ struggle against discrimination in transportation and a sweeping examination of Chinese migration to goldfields across the Anglophone world […]
One of the most decorated American historians of this generation wins another award
Early American historian Alan Taylor has won the New-York Historical Society’s 2022 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize for American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850. Here is Jennifer Schuessler at The New York Times: The book, […]
Messiah University’s Digital Harrisburg Initiative wins the Leadership in History Award from the American Association for State and Local History
I occasionally write about Messiah’s Digital Harrisburg Initiative (DHI). My colleague David Pettegrew and his team do an amazing job of serving our local community through public and digital history. I am thrilled to see that the American Association for […]
Nine Springsteen lyrics that won him the Woody Guthrie Prize
Bruce Springsteen will be awarded the Woody Guthrie Prize on May 13, 2021. Here is NJ.Com: Bruce Springsteen can add another award to his many accolades as a singer, songwriter and artist. But it won’t be another Grammy, Tony or Oscar. The Woody Guthrie Center will present […]
Our own Annie Thorn wins the Ernest L. Boyer Teacher Scholarship Award!
Every year Messiah University awards The Ernest L. Boyer Teacher Scholarship Award. The Boyer Award seeks to recognize an exemplary teacher certification student who has an outstanding record of service and academic achievement; who possesses exemplary personal characteristics and promise; […]
2021 Guggenheim Fellowship winners announced
Several American historians won fellowships this year: Cindy Hahamovitch, B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History, University of Georgia Kevin J. Mumford, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University Heather Ann Thompson, Collegiate […]