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John H. Dunning Prize
The John H. Dunning Prize is a biennial book prize awarded by the American Historical Association for the best book in history related to the United States. The prize was established in 1929, and is regarded as one of the most prestigious national honors in American historical writing. Currently, only the author's first or second book is eligible. Laureates include Oscar Handlin, John Higham (historian), John Higham, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Gordon S. Wood, Gordon Wood. The Dunning Prize has been shared five times, most recently in 1993. No award was made in 1937. List of prize winners Source: *2021 -- Bathsheba Demuth, ''Floating Coast, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait'' *2019 -- Christina N. Snyder, ''Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson'' *2017 -- Matthew Karp, ''This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy'' *2015 -- Kate Brown (professor), Kate Brown, ''Plutopia, Plutopia: Nuclear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Historical Association
The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional standards, and support scholarship and innovative teaching. It publishes ''The American Historical Review'' four times a year, with scholarly articles and book reviews. The AHA is the major organization for historians working in the United States, while the Organization of American Historians is the major organization for historians who study and teach about the United States. The group received a congressional charter in 1889, establishing it "for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manuscripts, and for kindred purposes in the interest of American history, and of history in America." Current activities As an umbrella organization for the discipline, the AHA works with other major historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Centuries Of Work In Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1850
2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and only even prime number. Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultures. Evolution Arabic digit The digit used in the modern Western world to represent the number 2 traces its roots back to the Indic Brahmic script, where "2" was written as two horizontal lines. The modern Chinese and Japanese languages (and Korean Hanja) still use this method. The Gupta script rotated the two lines 45 degrees, making them diagonal. The top line was sometimes also shortened and had its bottom end curve towards the center of the bottom line. In the Nagari script, the top line was written more like a curve connecting to the bottom line. In the Arabic Ghubar writing, the bottom line was completely vertical, and the digit looked like a dotless closing question mark. Restoring the bottom line to its original horizontal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Nash Smith
Henry Nash Smith (September 29, 1906 – June 6, 1986) was a scholar of American culture and literature. He was co-founder of the academic discipline "American studies". He was also a noted Mark Twain scholar, and the curator of the Mark Twain Papers. The ''Handbook of Texas'' reported that an uncle encouraged Smith to read at an early age, and that the boy developed an interest in the works of Rudyard Kipling, Robert L. Stevenson and Mark Twain.Gossett, Thomas F. "Smith, Henry Nash (1906-1986)." ''Handbook of Texas''. December 1, 1995. Life Smith was born in Dallas, Texas to a father, an accountant who was a native of Kentucky, and a mother who was a native of Alabama. In 1922, he enrolled in |
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Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis (other) * Louie (other) * Luis (other) * Louise (other) * Louisville (other) * Louis Cruise Lines * Louis dressing, for salad * Louis Quinze, design style Associated names * * Chlodwig, the origin of the name Ludwig, which is translated to English as "Louis" * Ladislav and László - names sometimes erroneously associated with "Louis" * Ludovic, Ludwig Ludwig may refer to: People and fictional characters * Ludwig (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Ludwig (surname), including a list of people * Ludwig Ahgren, or simply Ludwig, American YouTube live streamer and co ..., Ludwick, Ludwik, names sometimes translated to English as "Louis" {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric McKitrick
Eric Louis McKitrick (July 5, 1919 – April 24, 2002) was an American historian, best known for ''The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800'' (1993) with Stanley Elkins, which won the Bancroft Prize in 1994. Life McKitrick was born in Battle Creek, Michigan. He graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in 1949, an M.A. in 1951, and a Ph.D. in 1959. He taught at the University of Chicago and at Rutgers University's Douglass College in the 1950s, and Columbia University from 1960 to 1989 before retiring as an emeritus professor of history. In 1973–74 he was the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University and in 1979–80 the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. McKitrick reviewed for ''The New York Review of Books'' He died in New York City, aged 82. Awards * 1960 Dunning Prize * 1970 Guggenheim Fellowship * 1994 Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LaWanda Cox
LaWanda Fenlason Cox (1909–2005) was a pioneering historian of the American Civil War and the period of Reconstruction. Cox was born on September 24, 1909, in Aberdeen, Washington. She attended Washington High School in Portland, Oregon. Later, she received her Bachelors at the University of Oregon in 1931, her masters from Smith College (1934) and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1941. Cox studied at Smith College with Merle Curti a social historian, and at Berkeley with John Schuster Taylor an economist. She was a member of the history faculty at Hunter College and the City University of New York's Graduate Center (and briefly, at Goucher College) from 1940, until her retirement from teaching in 1971. She remained an active historian until the loss of her sight, in 1989; she died on February 2, 2005, in New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and '' berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Patrick Diggins
John Patrick Diggins (April 1, 1935 – January 28, 2009) was an American professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, Princeton University, and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He was the author/editor of more than a dozen books and thirty articles on widely varied topics in U.S. intellectual history. Early life and education Diggins was born in San Francisco to John Diggins, Sr., who worked for the City of San Francisco as a gardener, and Anne Naughton Diggins. Both of his parents were immigrants from Ireland. Raised in a Roman Catholic household, he attended and graduated from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School. Diggins received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1957, a master's degree from San Francisco State College, and a doctorate in History from the University of Southern California in 1964. He was an assistant professor at San Francisco State College from 1963-69; an associate professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Nissenbaum
Stephen Nissenbaum (A.B. Harvard College, 1961; M.A. Columbia University, 1963; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1968 ), is an American scholar, a Professor Emeritus of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's History Department specializing in early American history through to the nineteenth century. Most notably, he co-authored a book with Paul Boyer in 1974 about the Salem witch trials, ''Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft'', called "a landmark in early American studies" by John Putnam Demos. Professional career After receiving his doctorate in History from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1968, Nissenbaum began his academic career at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he was on the faculty until he retired in 2004. He was a fellow twice at Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. The first time, in 1976-1977, was to work on two projects, one about the career of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul S
Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer *Pope Paul (other), multiple Popes of the Roman Catholic Church *Saint Paul (other), multiple other people and locations named "Saint Paul" Roman and Byzantine empire *Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229 BC – 160 BC), Roman general *Julius Paulus Prudentissimus (), Roman jurist *Paulus Catena (died 362), Roman notary *Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century), Hellenistic astrologer *Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690), Greek surgeon Royals *Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia *Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece Other people *Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (c. 720 – c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk *Paul (father of Maurice), the father of Maurice, Byzan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hines (architectural Historian)
Thomas Spight Hines (born 1936) is a professor emeritus of history and architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught cultural, urban and architectural history for many years. Hines received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971. Hines is the author of ''Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner'', which won the Dunning Prize in 1972. Other works include ''Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture'', ''William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha'', ''Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform'', and "Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism, 1900-1970" as well as numerous articles in a wide variety of periodicals. Hines has held Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEH and Getty fellowships and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. Books * Hines, Thomas S., ''Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner'', Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 1974, * Hines, Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Salvatore
Nicholas Anthony Salvatore (born 1943) is an American historian who serves as the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. Biography Salvatore was born in 1943 in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. He graduated from Hunter College in 1968, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with an MA and PhD, where he studied with Leon F. Litwack. He has taught American history at the College of the Holy Cross and at Cornell University. He has two daughters, Gabriella and Nora, and two grandsons, Joseph and Oscar. He and his wife, Ann Sullivan, live in Ithaca, New York. Awards * National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships * Senior Fellow in Residence at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale University. * Bancroft Prize, for ''Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist'' * John H. Dunning Prize The John H. Dunning Prize is a biennial book prize awarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
