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JILL
LEPORE AWARDED 2015 AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE
AT NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S TENTH ANNUAL
WEEKEND WITH HISTORY
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
www.nyhistory.org
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WHAT: |
Jill Lepore received the 2015 American History Book
Prize for The
Secret History of Wonder Woman (New
York: Knopf, 2014). She
was presented with a $50,000 cash award, an engraved
medal and the title of American Historian Laureate
on April 17, 2015, during a black-tie dinner
celebrating the New-York Historical Society's tenth
annual Chairman's Council Weekend with History
event. On
Saturday, April 18,Weekend with History continued
with a series of intimate, informal presentations by
leading historians, scholars and newsmakers.
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WHO: |
Pam Schafler, Chair
of the New-York Historical Society’s Board of
Trustees, will present
the 2015 award to historian Jill
Lepore in
recognition of her book The
Secret History of Wonder Woman (New York: Knopf,
2014).
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WHERE: |
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West at Richard Gilder Way
(between 76th and 77th Streets)
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WHEN: |
Friday, April 17, 6pm – 9pm:
Cocktails and Black Tie Dinner Saturday, April 18,
9am-2pm: Breakfast and Sessions with Historians
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SPECIAL
GUESTS: |
Jacqueline Adams, Helen and Robert
Appel, Geraldine Baum and Michael Oreskes, Judy and
Howard Berkowitz, Franci Blassberg and Joe Rice,
Lois Chiles and Richard Gilder, Susan and Greg
Danilow, Elizabeth B. Dater, Barbara and Richard
Debs, Ahuva and Martin Gross, Diane and Paul
Guenther, Susan and Roger Hertog, Agnes Hsu-Tang and
Oscar Tang, Patricia and John Klingenstein, Susan
and Ira Millstein, Louise
Mirrer and David Halle, Jennifer and John Monsky,
Judy Stern Peck, Suzanne Peck and Brian P. Friedman,
Bonnie and Rick Reiss, Pam and Scott Schafler,
Bernard L. Schwartz, Anna Marie and Robert Shapiro,
Clarice Smith, Laurie and Sy Sternberg, Evan Thomas,
Judy Zankel and Norman Benzaquen, Julian Zeliger
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HONORARY CO-CHAIRS: |
Akhil Reed Amar, Joyce Appleby, Debby
Applegate, Sven Beckert, Thomas Bender, David
Blight, Douglas Brinkley, Ric Burns, David Cannadine,
Robert A. Caro, Ron Chernow, Andrew Delbanco, Eric
Foner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Doris Kearns Goodwin,
John Steele Gordon, Harold Holzer, Daniel Walker
Howe, Kenneth T. Jackson, Edward P. Jones, David
Kennedy, Jill Lepore, John Maurer, Steven Mintz,
David Nasaw, Andrew Roberts, Cokie Roberts, Simon
Schama, Stacy Schiff, Benno C. Schmidt, Russell
Shorto, Jean Edward Smith, Lesley Stahl, Robert A.M.
Stern, Richard Sylla, Sean Wilentz, Jay Winik,
Gordon Wood |
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