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 […]
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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 […]
The American Historical Society announces its 2020 awards
Here are a few that might be of interest to readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Award for Scholarly Distinction: David Levering Lewis, New York University. Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award: Robert D. Johnson, University of Illinois at […]
2020 Pulitzer Prize-Winners
Last night we called attention to the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in history. The award went to W. Caleb McDaniel for his book Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America. You can read the winners […]
Winners of the Bancroft Prize Announced
Here is the press release: Columbia University Libraries is pleased to award the 2020 Bancroft Prizes in American History and Diplomacy to two acclaimed works: Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age by […]
The American Historical Association Announces 2019 Prize Winners
Here are a few of the winners: The Albert J. Beveridge Award on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present Nan Enstad (Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison) for Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (Univ. of […]
David Blight Wins the Pulitzer Prize for History
The Pulitzer Prize for History was just awarded to David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Blight’s book was chosen by a committee made up of historians Annette Gordon-Reed, Markus Rediker, and Tiya Miles. Learn more here.
David Blight and Lisa Brooks Win the Bancroft Prize
Blights wins for Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom. Brooks wins for Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War. Congratulations! Here is a taste of an article on the winners at The New York Times: A mammoth biography of Frederick Douglass […]
The Organization of American Historians Announce It’s 2018 Award Winners
Here are a few of the winners that caught our eye: Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award for an individual or individuals whose contributions have significantly enriched our understanding and appreciation of American history. Linda K. Kerber, Emerita, University of Iowa Friend […]
Frances Fitzgerald Wins National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
The book is The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America. We had the privilege of interviewing Fitzgerald in Episode 30 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast! Listen here. Learn more about the National Book Critics Circle Award here.
The 2018 George Washington Book Prize Finalists Announced
The 2018 George Washington Prize finalists are: ● S. Max Edelson, The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence (Harvard University Press) ● Kevin J. Hayes, George Washington: A Life in Books (Oxford University Press) ● Eric […]
American Historical Association Announces 2017 Prize Winners
You can see the list of winners here. Here are some of the winners that might be of interest to the readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home: The Albert J. Beveridge Award on the history of the United States, Latin […]
The Finalists for the 2017 National Book Awards
A couple of weeks ago we did a post on the long list. Yesterday the finalists for the National Book Award was released. Good to see that the short list for nonfiction is dominated by history. Erica Armstrong Dunbar: Never Caught: […]
The National Book Award Longlist
The following ten books will be considered for the National Book Award: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, “Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge”37 ink / Atria / Simon & Schuster Frances FitzGerald, “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape […]
Nathaniel Philbrick Wins the 2017 George Washington Book Prize
Here is a taste of the press release from Washington College, one of the sponsors of the award. Author Nathaniel Philbrick has won the coveted George Washington Prize, including an award of $50,000, for his book, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, […]
Congratulations to the 2017 OAH Award Winners
Here they are: John D’Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award for the best Ph.D. dissertation in U.S. LGBTQ history. Ian Michael Baldwin, University of Redlands Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award for an individual or individuals whose contributions have significantly enriched our understanding […]
George Washington Book Prize Finalists Chosen
And here they are: Chestertown, MD—In celebration of George Washington’s 285th birthday, seven books published in 2016 by the country’s most prominent historians have been named finalists for the George Washington Prize. The annual award recognizes the past year’s best-written […]
Flora Fraser Wins George Washington Book Prize
Here is the press release: Flora Fraser, whose book The Washingtons offers a rare and comprehensive view of Martha Washington and the relationship between the nation’s inaugural first couple, wins the $50,000 George Washington Prize. A noted biographer whose work has […]