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Call for Submissions: S-USIH 2020 Annual Book Award

The Society for U. S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) is pleased to announce its Annual Book Award for the best book in U.S. intellectual history.

The book should be a work of original scholarship and should cover some aspect of American intellectual history. Books eligible for the 2020 award must be published in English in the period between Jan. 1, 2019 and Dec. 31, 2019. Any member of the Society or any publisher may nominate books for the award. The winner will be announced in June 2020, receive a $250.00 prize, and be recognized at the 2020 Conference in Boston, November 5-7, 2019.  The winning author must be a member of the Society at the time of this presentation.

A copy of the nominated book must be sent to each of the following three committee members no later than February 15, 2020. A separate letter listing each entry should be sent to the committee so they can verify arrival of all entries.

Heather Cox Richardson (Chair)

Stokes S325
History Department
Boston College
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chesnut Hill, MA  02467

Robert B. Genter

Department of History
Nassau Community College
One Education Drive
Garden City, NY 11530

Benjamin E. Park 

Box 2239
Department of History
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX 77341