Past Book Award Winners
Details about past winners appear in the June issues of Public History News, available here.
2010 - Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian’s Journey through Public Memory, by Ronald Rudin (University of Toronto Press, 2009)
Companion Website: http://rememberingacadie.concordia.ca/
2009 – Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering Apache History, by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh (University of Arizona Press, 2007)
2008 – Haunted by Waters:A Journey through Race and Place in the American West, by Robert Hayashi (University of Iowa Press, 2007)
2007 – The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City, by Cathy Stanton (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006)
2006 – Road, River, and Ol’ Boy Politics: A Texas County’s Path from Farm to Supersuburb, by Linda Scarbrough (Texas State Historical Assocaition, 2005)
First presented in 2005 – History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa, by Annie E. Coombes, (University of London, 2003)
Submission Guidelines
The National Council on Public History invites nominations for its annual award for the best published book in public history. The Council seeks works about or growing out of public history theory, study, or practice, or that have compelling implications for the same. Books “growing out of” public history include, but are not limited to, exhibition catalogs, documentary films, policy studies, and monographs that have a clear public dimension. Whether about or growing out of public history, successful contenders will clearly display the public aspects of their conception, development, and execution, and how they illuminate issues and concerns significant to audiences beyond the academy.
The NCPH Book Award consists of a $1,000 cash prize and a framed certificate, both presented at the NCPH Annual Meeting. Award winners also receive complimentary registration for the awards luncheon.
Eligibility. To be eligible for consideration, a book must have been published within the previous two calendar years (2009 and 2010). Entries may be monographs, edited collections of articles or essays, or any other published work of comparable scope. Singly and jointly authored/edited works are welcome, as are international topics.
Award Criteria. Criteria for selection include:
I. Excellence and thoroughness of research
II. Style and appropriateness of presentation
III. Suitability and rigor of methodology
IV. Contribution to advancing the field of public history
(These four criterion receive equal weight in the book award committee’s discussions.)
Submission Process. Four copies of the book and other submission materials are required. Please send the book and a cover sheet, along with a brief curriculum vitae or resume for each author/editor, to each of the Book Award Committee members and one to the NCPH executive office at:
NCPH Book Award 2011
327 Cavanaugh Hall – IUPUI
425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5148
Submissions must be postmarked by 1 November 2010. Incomplete submissions packages will be deemed ineligible.
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