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...
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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...
Who Won Awards at #oah2016?
Process blog has it covered. Here is a taste are a few of the award winners that got our attention here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Frederick Jackson Turner Award for the author of a first scholarly book dealing...
*Mourning Lincoln* Wins the Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Congratulations to Martha Hodes. You can read our Author’s Corner interview with her here. Here is the announcement published at The New York Times: “Mourning Lincoln,” the historian Martha Hodes’s account of how ordinary Americans lamented (or celebrated) the assassination of...
2016 George Washington Book Prize Finalists Announced
When my Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction was chosen as a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize in 2012, there were only three books that made the cut. This year there are seven finalists. And...
Congratulations 2015 AHA Prize Winners
At its recent meeting in Atlanta the American Historical Association announced its annual prize winners. Here are a few of the prize-winners that might be relevant to readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Albert J. Beveridge Award on...
_Journal of the American Revovlution_ Announces Book of the Year
And the winner is: Here is a taste of the announcement from the editors of the Journal of the American Revolution: This year’s winner is Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution by Kathleen DuVal (Random House, 2015)....
*Christianity Today* Book Awards Announced
Here they are. Congratulations to Thomas Kidd of Baylor University. His book George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father was chosen as the Book of the Year in the History/Biography category. See our Author’s Corner interview with Kidd here....
Congratulations Dave McIntire!
Dave McIntire teaches history at the Independent School in Wichita, Kansas. I just learned that he was awarded the Judy Cromwell Excellence in Teaching Award from the Kansas Council for Social Studies. Read all about it here. Why am I bringing...
David Hackett Fischer Receives the 2015 Pritzker Literature Award
For lifetime achievement in military writing: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkTM9AjT6cc]...
Messiah College History Alum Wins the Breveridge Family Teaching Prize
Each year the American Historical Association awards the prestigious Breveridge Family Teaching Prize for distinguished K-12 history teaching. This year’s winner is Carlisle (PA) High School History Teacher Kevin Wagner. Kevin is a Messiah College graduate (history major) and a...
American Historical Association Announces 2015 Prize Winners
Congratulations to all. Here are few of note for readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home: The Albert J. Beveridge Award on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present: Elizabeth A. Fenn...
Organization of American Historians Teacher of the Year Award
Nominate someone for the Mary K. Bonsteel Teachers of the Year Award:The Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau Teacher of the Year Award is given annually by the Organization of American Historians in recognition of the contributions made by precollegiate teachers to...
Jurgen Habermas and Charles Taylor Receive Kluge Prize
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress “brings together scholars and researchers from around the world to stimulate and energize one another, to distill wisdom from the Library’s rich resources, and to interact with policymakers and the...
Nick Bunker Wins the George Washington Book Prize
It is one the nation’s largest literary awards. The George Washington Book Prize is awarded every year to the best book on early American history written for a broad audience. It is sponsored by Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of...
George Washington Book Prize Finalists Announced
I am a big fan of the George Washington Book Prize. Here is a description of the prize:In celebration of George Washington’s birthday, Washington College today named four finalists for the 2015 George Washington Book Prize. One of the nation’s...
2105 *Christianity Today* Book Awards
Congratulations to all of this year’s winners, but especially the winner and runner-up in the field of history. Winner: Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Award of Merit: Philip Jenkins, The Great and Holy War: How World...
Lilly Fellows Book Award: Call for Entries
I want to call your attention to this book prize for works that reflect on the intersection of academic life and Christian faith. Our book Confessing History: Explorations on the Historian’s Vocation (co-edited with Jay Green and Eric Miller) was a...
Gilder-Lehrman Institute National History Teacher of the Year
It is not our own Kevin Wagner, but congratulations to Michelle Anderson of John Glenn High School! Congratulations to Michele Anderson of John Glenn High School, the 2014 National History Teacher of the Year! HISTORY® and The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American...
Finalists Announced for the 2014 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Press release: Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has announced the finalists for the Sixteenth Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African American...