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2009 Awards Celebration
On October 21, 2009, NJCH recognized extraordinary achievement in the humanities at a cocktail reception and awards ceremony at the Montclair Art Museum. Attendees mingled with award winners James M. McPherson, Annette Gordon-Reed, Gregory Woodruff, and honored authors Michael Robertson, W. Barksdale Maynard, and Arthur Lefkowitz.
The highlight of the evening was A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed and James M. McPherson: History and the Meaning of Justice moderated by Dr. Clement A. Price. This conversation between two Pulitzer prize-winning historians considered the role of slavery in shaping the United States at pivotal moments in its past and asked how America's unique racial history has impacted the implementation of justice since that time.
The Fairleigh Dickinson University radio station, WFDU, broadcast interviews with award winners Annette Gordon-Reed and James McPherson and Dr. Price as well as NJCH board chair Dr. Greg Waters and executive director Jane Brailove Rutkoff, from the Awards Event. To listen, click here.
From left to right: James M. McPherson, Clement A. Price and Annette Gordon-Reed discuss race, history and justice
2009 Award Winners
Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities
Stan Katz presents James M. McPherson with a Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities award |
James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson is professor emeritus of history at Princeton University and renowned expert on the Civil War. The Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities Award is bestowed on him for his extraordinary efforts to inform Americans about the history of the Civil War era. McPherson has written and edited more than 25 books of history, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Most recently, he published Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, chosen as a 2009 NJCH Honor Book. Read more...
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NJCH Book Award
Stan Katz presents Annette Gordon-Reed with the 2009 Humanities Book Award |
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed is professor of history at Rutgers University and professor of law at New York Law School. In The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (WW Norton, 2008), Gordon-Reed marshals her exhaustive research to tell the story of the Hemings family, recreating the world of 18th and 19th century slavery with a nuanced and careful eye. Her first book, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (U. of Virginia Press, 1997) focused specifically on the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings. Read more... |
Teacher of the Year
Marue Walizer presents Gregory Woodruff with the 2009 Humanities Teacher of the Year Award
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Gregory Woodruff is an English and humanities teacher at Montclair High School. He has been chosen as the NJCH Teacher of the Year due to his success in introducing students to the humanities. His popular Humanities seminars connect the literature, art and philosophy of the past with the present using a student-centered approach that emphasizes inquiry and comprehension. A respected colleague, he has created an Economics Institute at the school and served as advisor for student groups. Read more...
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2009 Honor Book Authors in Attendance
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Arthur Lefkowitz, Benedict Arnold’s Army: The 1775 American Invasion of Canada During the Revolutionary War (Savas Beatie)
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W. Barksdale Maynard, Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency (Yale University Press) |
James M. McPherson, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief (The Penguin Press)
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Michael Robertson, Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples (Princeton University Press) Read more... |
Not pictured: John Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press)
| Congratulations to Barbara Wind, NJCH board member and Director of the Holocaust Council of MetroWest, for winning a pit-fired, painted, gilded earthenware vessel created for NJCH by renowned artist Bennett Bean. |
NJCH Board Chair Greg Waters presents Barbara Wind with the Bean vessel
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