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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 Gordon S. Wood,
professor emeritus at
Brown University, will receive the prize in
recognition of his book Empire of Liberty: A
History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford
University Press, 2009).
The prize will be presented by Roger Hertog,
Chairman of the Historical Society.
WHERE: New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
WHEN : Friday, March 26,
2010
6:00 pm: cocktails in the Library
7:00 pm: dinner in the Galleries
and award presentation
WEEKEND: Participants in Weekend with
History include
Ric Burns, documentary filmmaker; Mike
Wallace, historian and author; Linda
Greenhouse, journalist; Harold Holzer, US
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Committee; Tamar
Jacoby, ImmigrationWorks USA; Edward Widmer,
Brown University; Joyce Applby, author and
historian; Douglas Brinkley, Professor at
Rice University; Vincent Cannato, University
of Massachusetts, Boston; Morris Dickstein,
City University of New York Graduate Center;
Michael Sandel, Harvard University; Benno C.
Schmidt, City University of New York; and
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University.
HONORARY CO-CHAIRS: Akhil Reed Amar, Joyce
Appleby, Debby Applegate, Sven Beckert, Thomas
Bender, David Blight, Ric Burns, David Cannadine,
Ron Chernow, Andrew Delbanco, Eric Foner, Henry
Louise Gates Jr., Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Steele
Gordon, Harold Holzer, Daniel Walker Howe, Kenneth
T. Jackson, Edward P. Jones, David Kennedy, Jill
Lepore, Pauline Maier, Steven Mintz, David Nasaw,
David S. Reynolds, Cokie Roberts, Simon Schama,
Stacy Schiff, Russell Shorto, Peter Silver, Jean
Edward Smith, Lesley Stahl, Robert A.M. Stern,
Richard Sylla, Sean Wilentz, Gordon Wood
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