WHAT:
Presentation
of the
$50,000
American
History Book
Prize at
the gala
black-tie
dinner opened 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,
received 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.
WEEKEND:
Participants
in
Weekend with
History
included
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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