Prize Announcement

PrizeAnnouncement Wa, Ve arepleased to announce thefollowing namedprizes. Prizewinners will be announcedat The HistoricalSociety's nationalconference in Atknta, Georgia, May 16-18, 2002. We encourage our members to submit theirpublications or dissertationsfor consideration . Submissions should arrive no later than December 31, 2001. In 2002, additional named prizes will be announced in Latin American History , African History, and Asian History. The Eugene Genovese Best Book in American History Prize A prize of$5,000 (US) named after Eugene Genovese, distinguished historian of the American South, will be awarded for the best book by a member of The Historical Society on any subject relating to American history. To be considered, the book must have been published between January 2000 and December 2001. Candidates should submit six copies of the book to Robert Paquette, Chair Eugene Genovese Prize Committee 656 Beacon Street, Mezzanine Boston, MA 02215-2010 Eugene D. Genovese ranks as one of the most influential American historians ofthe last halfcentury. Although his many writings have demonstrated an impressive range of interests, his scholarship has concentrated on the history of masters and slaves in the southern United States. Born in 1930, the son ofa Brooklyn dockworker, Genovese was educated at Brooklyn College (BA 1953) and Columbia University (MA 1955, PhD 1959). His first book, The Political Economy ofSlavery: Studies in the Economy and Society ofthe Slave South (1965), which eventually appeared in French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese translation, argued for the centraliry ofslavery in shaping a distinctive Southern civilization. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Skves Made ( 1 974) stands as arguably the most penetrating analysis ever written ofslavery in the Old South. His other books include In Redand Black: Marxist Expiations in Southern andAfro-American History (1971; rev. ed., 1984), Fruits ofMerchant Capital (1983, with Elizabeth Fox-Genovese), The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War (1995), and most recently, Consuming Fire: The Fall ofthe Confederacy in the Mindofthe White Christian South (1999). The Donald Kagan Best Book in European History Prize A prize of $5,000 (US) named after Donald Kagan, one of the most eminent historians ofAncient Greece will be awarded for the best book by a member of The Historical Society on any subject relating to European history. To be considered, the book must have been published between January 2000 and December 2001. Candidates should submit six copies of the book to Marc Trachtenberg, Chair Donald Kagan Prize Committee 656 Beacon Street, Mezzanine Boston, MA 02215-2010 Donald Kagan is the Hillhouse Professor ofClassics and History at Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College, his Master's degree in Classics from Brown University, and his PhD in History from Ohio State University in 1958, and has received honorary doctorates from the University of New Haven and Adelphi University. His books include The Great Diabgue: A History ofGreek Political Thoughtfrom Homer to Polyhius (1965 and 1986); The Outbreak ofthe PeIoponnesian War (1969); TheArchidamian War (1974); The Peace ofNietas and the Sicilian Expedition (1981); The Fall ofthe Athenian Empire ( 1987); Pericles and the Birth ofthe Athenian Empire (1990); The Western Heritage (2000) with Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner; and The Heritage ofWorld Civilizations (2000) with Albert M. Craig, William A. Graham, Ozment, and Turner. His book, On the Origins ofWar and the Preservation ofPeace (1995), details five case studies ofefforts to prevent war in a single volume: the AthensSparta war, the Second Punic War, World Wars I and II, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. It has been called "one of the most incisive books written on the causes ofwar." By tracing the common threads that connect these ancient and modern confrontations, the book offers new insights into the nature ofwar and peace. His most recent book, While America Sleeps (2000) with Frederick W Kagan, details a comparison between post-World War 1 Great Britain and the United States after the Cold War. He has also published continued onpage 6 ? — <¦E ANNOLNQMHNT ,mimutd (rom w S articles in such varied periodicals as The Historian, the AmericanJournal ofPhilology the AmericanJournalof Archaeology the Washington Quarterly, the New York Times, The Public Interest, Commentary and the WallStreetJournal. The Pauline Maier Best Dissertation in American Hutory Prize A prize of $1,000 (US) named after Pauline Maier, one of the most outstanding practitioners of American history, will be awarded for the best doctoral dissertation by a member of The Historical Society on any subject relating to American history. To be considered, dissertations must have been submitted between January 2000 and December 2001. Candidates should submit six copies of a ten-page abstract of the dissertation accompanied by a short bibliography. This should be sent to David L Carlton, Chair Pauline Maier Prize Committee 656 Beacon Street, Mezzanine Boston, MA 02215-2010 Pauline Maier is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, having taught at that institution since 1978. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from RadclifTe in 1960, and then spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics. She received her PhD in American History from Harvard University in 1968. Her first book, From Resistance to Revolution : Cobnial Radicals and the Development ofAmerican Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 (1972 and subsequent editions) has been called the "classic account of the American revolution," offering a detailed narrative of how Americans came to contemplate and establish their independence, guided by principle, reason, and experience. She is also the author of The Old Revolutionaries : Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams; and The American People: A History, as well as many articles on the revolutionary era that have appeared in various journals including The William and Mary Quarterly and Reviews in American History. She has received grants from the National F.ndowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as honorary degrees from Regis College and Williams College. She has appeared on several PBS programs and on programs produced for the History Channel. Her latest book, American Scripture: Making the Declaration ofIndependence, was published by Knopf in 1997 and appeared as a Vintage paperback in 1998. It examines the development of independence, the writing of the Declaration, and the transformation of the Declaration during the nineteenth century from a revolutionary manifesto into a statement ot principles to guide established governments. The Theodore Hamerow Best Dissertation in European History Prize A prize of$1,000 (US) named after Theodore Hamerow, prominent historian of nineteenth- and twentiethcentury Germany, will be awarded for the best doctoral dissertation by a member of The Historical Society on any subject relating to European history . To be considered, dissertations must have been submitted between January 2000 and December 2001. Candidates should submit six copies of a ten-page abstract of the dissertation accompanied by a short bibliography. This should be sent to Henry C. Clark, Chair Theodore S. Hamerow Prize Committee 656 Beacon Street, Mezzanine Boston, MA 02215-2010 Theodore S. Hamerow is G. P. Gooch Professor of History Emeritus at the University ofWisconsin-Madison, having taught there from 1958 to 1991. He has written extensively on German and European history. He was born in 1920 in Warsaw, Poland, and emigrated to the United States in 1930. He served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946. He received his BA from City College (now City College of the City University of New York) in 1942, his Master's degree from Columbia University in 1947, and his PhD from Yale University in 1951. He was the Fulbright research professor at Erlangen University , Germany in 1962-1963, and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal ofModern History and Central European History. His first book, Restoration, Revolution , Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815-1871 (1958, still in print), examines the economic and social forces which drove the Revolution . He argues that while ideological forces were at work, "deep-seated popular dissatisfaction engendered by the transition from agrarian manorialism to industrial capitalism" played a large role. Other books by Hamerow include the two-volume work The Social Foundations ofGerman Unification , 1858-1871 (1969, 1972), The Age ofBismarck (1973), Reflections on History and Historians (1987), The Birth ofa New Europe: State and Society in the Nineteenth Century (1983), Reflections on History and Historians (1987), and From the Finknd Station: The Graying ofRevolution in the Twentieth Century (1990). In On the Road to the Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitler (1997) Hamerow examines why German resisters chose to take active steps to overthrow the regime, culminating in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler at his headquarters —the "Wolf's Lair"—in East Prussia in 1944. His latest is an autobiographical work entitled Remembering a Vanished World: A Jewish Childhood in Interwar Poknd (2001). Hamerow has also written articles and book reviews that have appeared in such varied publications as Commentary, History Today, The Historian, The Journal ofModern History, Modern Age, The American Historical Review, and European History Quarterly. All submissions should arrive no kter than December 31, 2001. ...