The New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize

The Seventh Annual Competition

Purpose:
To encourage the general public to read works on American history.

Prize:
An engraved medal, patterned after a medal in the New-York Historical Society’s collection, $50,000 cash prize to the author and the title of American Historian Laureate. The award will be presented April 2012 at the Chairman’s Council Weekend with History, an annual gathering of the Historical Society’s most committed supporters.

Eligibility:
Awarded for an adult non-fiction book on American history or biography copyrighted in 2011 that is distinguished by its scholarship, its literary style and its appeal to a general as well as an academic audience. Last year’s winner of the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize was Ron Chernow (George Washington) Previous winners include Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals), David Nasaw (Andrew Carnegie), Daniel Walker Howe (What God Hath Wrought), Drew Gilpin Faust (This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War) and Gordon Wood (Empire of Liberty). 

Method of Submission:
There is no fee for participation. 
Publishers may submit as many titles as they wish, but must send six copies of each submission to:

Jean Ashton
Vice President and Library Director
The New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024

SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY NOVEMBER 1, 2011.

For more information, please call or e-mail:
Laura Washington, the New-York Historical Society (212) 485-9263, lwashington@nyhistory.org