WHAT                         Presentation of the $50,000 American History Book Prize at the gala black-tie dinner that opens the annual Weekend With History event, an exclusive, high-level gathering organized by the Chairman $B!G (Bs Council of the New-York Historical Society.

WHO                           Historian Drew Gilpin Faust, who is President of Harvard University, will receive the prize in recognition of her book This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. The prize will be presented by Roger Hertog, Chairman of the Historical Society.

WHERE                      New-York Historical Society

                                    170 Central Park West

WHEN                         Friday, April 3, 2009

6:00 pm: cocktails in the Library and reading by Tony Award-winning actor Jim Dale

                                    7:00 pm: dinner in the Galleries and award presentation

GUESTS                    Expected dinner guests include Robert and Ina Caro, Kyle MacLachlan and Desiree Gruber, Richard Gilder, Debby Applegate and Bruce Tulgan, Bunny and Bill Beekman, Diana and Norman Benzaquen, Ann and Tom Charters, William Friedman, Julie and Jim Dale, Marjorie and Gurnee Hart, Victoria McManus and John McDermott,  Valerie Paley, Jennifer Raab and Michael Goodwin, David and Suzanne Reynolds, Bernard and Irene Schwartz, William and Fay Shutzer, Richard Sylla, Michael and Leah Weisberg.

WEEKEND                 Participants in Weekend with History include David J. Cannadine,

WITH HISTORY        Princeton University; Paul Kennedy, Yale University; Bill T. Jones, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; George E. Pataki; John Steele Gordon, author; Pauline Maier, MIT; Lawrence Kudlow, $B!H (BThe Kudlow Report $B!I (B; Byron Wien, Pequot Capital Management; James Chanos, Kynikos Associates; Richard Rabinowitz, American History Workshop; and Louise Mirrer, President and CEO, NYHS

For more information or to purchase tickets please call: 212 972 2268