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...
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):...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 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...
