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2011 AWARDS

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HENRY ADAMS PRIZE

Susan Dunn, Preston Parish ’41Third Century Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Williams College: Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010)

GEORGE PENDLETON PRIZE

William P. Leeman, Assistant Professor of History, United States Military Academy at West Point: The Long Road to Annapolis: The Founding of the Naval Academy and the Emerging American Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

JAMES MADISON PRIZE

Eric S. Yellin, Assistant Professor of History, University of Richmond: “‘It Was Still No South to Us’: African American Civil Servants at the Fin de Siècle,” Washington History, the Journal of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

THOMAS JEFFERSON PRIZE

John M. Carland, editor, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume VIII: Vietnam, January–October 1972 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2010)

THOMPSON PRIZE

No award in 2011

JOHN WESLEY POWELL PRIZE

“Cargo is King” at the San Francisco Maritime Museum, National Park Service, San Francisco, CA, submitted by Richard Everett, exhibit curator

“Lost on the Reef” Maritime Heritage Exhibit, Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument’s Mokupapapa Discovery Center, Hilo, Hawaii, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, submitted by Dr. Kelly Gleason

ROGER R. TRASK AWARD

Philip L. Cantelon, History Associates Inc.

MARYELLEN TRAUTMAN AWARD

Benjamin Guterman, National Archives and Records Administration

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AWARD

No award in 2011