NJCH - Awards - NJCH Annual Book Award

Each year NJCH selects for its Book Award a work of nonfiction in the humanities that encourages critical reflection and makes scholarly knowledge accessible to a general audience. The award will be presented at ceremony in the fall. Publishers are invited to nominate books that fulfill the following criteria.

1. The author has a New Jersey connection either by birth, residence, or occupation at the time of submission, or the book is concerned primarily with a significant New Jersey subject. In either case, the author must clearly possess and display knowledge of the subject.

2. The subject of the book is in one or several of the Humanities fields as defined by the National Endowment for the Humanities, including, but not limited to: literature, language, aesthetics, jurisprudence, history, philosophy, archaeology, comparative religion, ethics, and those aspects of the social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods.

3. The book is a work of nonfiction that encourages critical reflection and/or makes scholarly knowledge available and exciting to a general audience.

4. The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2010 for books published between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009.

5. Normally, edited or multiple authored works are not eligible.

6. A book published in a foreign language is eligible only if it is available in English translation.

7. Reprints may be nominated only if they were not nominated in the year that they were originally published.

8. The winning author will attend the presentation ceremony.

Note: The Award is annual and is granted to a single book. The NJCH reserves the right to make no award in a year in which no book is considered worthy of the Award. Likewise, the Council reserves the right to select up to five books as “Honor Books” during the competition, or to make no such designation in a year in which no books are considered worthy of this designation.

Completed application
6 reading copies of the book (hardcover whenever possible)
A brief description of the book and a statement of why it deserves this award
Press kit for nominated title, including author photograph(s)
Important reminder: Publishers may nominate more than one title.

RECENT PAST WINNERS
(For a complete list of winners, including Honor Books, contact NJCH.)

2009	*Annette Gordon-Reed , The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,* (W. W. Norton & Company, 2008)**
2008	*Michael B. Oren, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present* (W. W. Norton & Company, 2007)**
2007	*Jonathan Alter, The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope* (Simon and Schuster, 2006)**
2006	*Patricia Tyson Stroud, The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother Joseph* (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)**
2005	*David Hackett Fisher, Washington's Crossing* (Oxford University Press, 2004)**
2004	*Suzanne Lebsock, A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial* (W.W. Norton & Company, 2003).**
2003	*Arthur Hertzberg, A Jew in America: My Life and People's Struggle for Identity* (Harper San Francisco, 2002).**
2002	*Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes* (Yale University Press, 2001)**
2001	*Hendrik Hartog, Man and Wife in America: A History* (Harvard University Press, 2000)**

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