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 […]
book awards
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 […]
Three historians win the Bancroft Prize
It’s the most prestigious award in American history. Congrats to Beverly Gage, Kelly Lytle Hernández, and John Wood Sweet for winning it. Here are Jennifer Schuessler’s descriptions of these books at The New York Times: Beverly Gage’s “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover […]
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 […]
Christianity Today announces 2022 book awards
We are familiar with Christianity Today book awards here at Current. Our editor, Eric Miller, won the award in the History/Biography category in 2011 for Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch. Some good historians made the […]