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NJCH ANNUAL BOOK AWARD | TEACHER
OF THE YEAR
2011 NJCH Book Award Winner
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, W.W. Norton & Company
2011 NJCH Honor Books
- Thomas Belton, Protecting New Jersey's Environment: From Cancer Alley to the New Garden State, Rutgers University Press
- Ann Fabian, The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead, University of Chicago Press
- Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People, W.W. Norton & Company
- Michael Perino, The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance, The Penguin Press
2010 NJCH Book Award Winner
- John V. Fleming, The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War. W.W. Norton & Company
2010 NJCH Honor Books
- Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920, Harper Collins
- Beryl Satter, Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
- Elaine Showalter, A Jury of Her Peers: American Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, Knopf
- John B. Wefing, The Life and Times of Richard J. Hughes: The Politics of Civility, Rutgers University Press
- Robert Wright, The Evolution of God, Little, Brown and Co.
An in-depth article can be found in the Summer 2010 edition of Ideas
2009 NJCH Book Award Winner
- Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. W.W. Norton and Company
2009 NJCH Honor Books
- James M. McPherson, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief. The Penguin Press.
NJCH
Book Award Information and Application Instructions :
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.
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 15, 2012
for books published between January 1, 2011 and December
31, 2011.
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.
For each title nominated, please submit the
following:
Completed application
6 reading copies of the book
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.
Award: $1,000 to the author
RECENT PAST
WINNERS
(For a complete list of winners, including Honor Books, contact
NJCH.)
| 2011 |
Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010) |
| 2010 |
John V. Fleming, The Anti-Communist Manifestos: 4 Books That Shaped the Cold War, (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009) |
| 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) |
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Book Award Nomination Form in PDF format
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Nomination Form in MSWord format
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