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The Society of Civil War Historians and the Watson-Brown Foundation are proud to announce that Daniel Sutherland of the University of Arkansas is the first recipient of the $50,000 Tom Watson Brown Book Award. Sutherland received the award for his book A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War, which was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2009.
According to George Rable, who holds the Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama and served as chair of the prize jury, Sutherland’s book “shows the grim and gritty reality of the Civil War beyond the major battlefields and throughout both the Confederacy and border states.” In addition, the “engagingly written” book “reconfigures our understanding of the relationship between the battlefield and the Southern home-front” in a way that makes “a distinguished and lasting contribution to the field.”
The award announcement was made on June 19 at the SCWH biannual conference in Richmond, Virginia. Sutherland will formally accept the award and deliver the keynote address at the Society’s annual banquet at the Southern Historical Association in Charlotte in November. The award is funded by the Watson-Brown Foundation in honor of the broadcaster, philanthropist, and Civil War enthusiast Tom Watson Brown. The Foundation makes annual awards of more than $1 million in merit and need-based college scholarships to students from the Central Savannah River Area and offers research grants to historians and historic preservation projects.
Contact
James Marten
History Department
Marquette University
P. O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53208-1881
414-288-7901
Email: james.marten@marquette.edu
Visit the website at http://scwh.la.psu.edu/2009%20Book%20Prize%20Winner.shtml
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this opportunity
The Society of Civil War Historians and the Watson-Brown Foundation are proud to announce that Daniel Sutherland of the University of Arkansas is the first recipient of the $50,000 Tom Watson Brown Book Award. Sutherland received the award for his book A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War, which was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2009.
According to George Rable, who holds the Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama and served as chair of the prize jury, Sutherland’s book “shows the grim and gritty reality of the Civil War beyond the major battlefields and throughout both the Confederacy and border states.” In addition, the “engagingly written” book “reconfigures our understanding of the relationship between the battlefield and the Southern home-front” in a way that makes “a distinguished and lasting contribution to the field.”
The award announcement was made on June 19 at the SCWH biannual conference in Richmond, Virginia. Sutherland will formally accept the award and deliver the keynote address at the Society’s annual banquet at the Southern Historical Association in Charlotte in November. The award is funded by the Watson-Brown Foundation in honor of the broadcaster, philanthropist, and Civil War enthusiast Tom Watson Brown. The Foundation makes annual awards of more than $1 million in merit and need-based college scholarships to students from the Central Savannah River Area and offers research grants to historians and historic preservation projects.
Contact
James Marten
History Department
Marquette University
P. O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53208-1881
414-288-7901
Email: james.marten@marquette.edu
Visit the website at http://scwh.la.psu.edu/2009%20Book%20Prize%20Winner.shtml
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this opportunity
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