Prize winning author and historian Maya Jasanoff. |
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CHESTERTOWN, MD— History, they say, is usually told by the winners. But the winner of the 2012 George Washington Book Prize, author Maya Jasanoff, has uncovered the compelling and often moving stories of men and women who found themselves on the losing side of the American Revolution.
Jasanoff will share stories
and insights from her book Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the
Revolutionary World at this year’s George Washington Book Prize Celebration
at Washington College, on Thursday, November 8 and Friday, November 9. All
events – which are hosted by the College’s C.V. Starr Center for the Study of
the American Experience – are free and open to the public.
The main event, “Making
History: A Conversation with Maya Jasanoff,” will take place on Thursday,
November 8 at 5:30 p.m. in Decker Theatre, Gibson Center for the Arts, and will
be followed by a reception. Guests who arrive early will have an opportunity to
enjoy a book signing with the author and a performance by the Maryland Loyalist Battalion, a reenactment group. The full schedule is as follows:
Thursday, November 8, Gibson
Center for the Arts
4:15 p.m. - Book signing
5:15 p.m. - Salute by the Maryland
Loyalist Battalion
5:30 p.m. - “Making History:
A Conversation with Maya Jasanoff and Adam Goodheart”
6:30 p.m. - Public Reception
Friday, November 9, The Egg,
Center Stage, Hodson Hall Commons
9:30 a.m. - “Authors in the
Egg: How Books Are Born.” Washington College students, faculty, and members of
the public are invited to an informal conversation with Maya Jasanoff. A light
breakfast will be served.
“Maya Jasanoff vividly
tells the stories of individual people swept up in the treacherous – and
sometimes fatal – currents of history,” says Adam Goodheart, Director of the
Starr Center, who will lead the November 8 conversation. “She brings the past
to life by putting readers in the shoes of these characters, from wealthy
merchants to African-American slaves.”
Jasanoff received the $50,000
prize at a black-tie dinner at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate Museum
and Gardens last June. Sponsored by Washington
College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and George
Washington's Mount Vernon, the Washington Book Prize is one of the largest
literary prizes in the nation. Given annually for the year’s best book about
America’s founding era, it particularly recognizes
well-written books that speak to general audiences and contribute to a broad
public understanding of the American past.
In addition to the 2012
Washington Book Prize, Liberty’s Exiles also received the 2012 National
Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction and was shortlisted for the
BBC Samuel Johnson Prize in Nonfiction. “At the heart of this smart, deeply researched and
elegantly written history is Jasanoff’s re-creation of the lives of those who
emigrated — rich and poor, white, black and in some cases red,” wrote New
York Times reviewer Thomas Bender.
Jasanoff, a Professor of History at Harvard University, was awarded the
2005 Duff Cooper Prize for her first book, Edge of Empire: Lives,
Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850, which was a book-of-the-year
selection in numerous publications, including The Economist, The
Observer and The Sunday Times. She has contributed essays to The
New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Guardian, The New York
Times Magazine and other publications.
Created in 2005 to honor the
year’s best book about America’s founding era, the George Washington Book Prize
was presented that year to Ron Chernow for Alexander Hamilton.
Subsequent winners have included Stacy Schiff (2006), Annette Gordon-Reed
(2009), Richard Beeman (2010), and Pauline Maier (2011).
Washington College’s Starr
Center administers the Book Prize, which is co-sponsored with the Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History and George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Estate & Gardens.
About the Sponsors of the
George Washington Book Prize:
Washington College was founded in 1782, the first institution of higher
learning established in the new republic. George Washington was not only a principal
donor to the college, but also a member of its original governing board. He
received an honorary degree from the college in June 1789, two months after
assuming the presidency. The C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American
Experience, founded at the College in 2000, is an innovative center for the
study of history, culture and politics, and fosters excellence in the art of
written history through fellowships, prizes, and student programs. www.washcoll.edu.
Founded in 1994, the Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization supporting the study and love of American history through a wide
range of programs and resources for students, teachers, scholars, and history
enthusiasts throughout the nation. Gilder Lehrman creates and works closely
with history-focused schools through its Affiliate School Program; organizes
teacher seminars and development programs; produces print and digital
publications and traveling exhibitions; hosts lectures by eminent historians;
administers a History Teacher of the Year Award in every state and US
territory; and offers national book prizes. The Gilder Lehrman website, www.gilderlehrman.org,
serves as a gateway to American history online with rich resources for
educators designed specifically for K–12 teachers and students.
Since 1860, over 80 million visitors have made
George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens the most
popular historic home in America. Through thought-provoking tours,
entertaining events, and stimulating educational programs on the Estate and in
classrooms across the nation, Mount Vernon strives to preserve George
Washington’s place in history as “First in War, First in Peace, and First in
the Hearts of His Countrymen.” Mount Vernon is owned and operated by the
Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, America’s oldest national preservation
organization, founded in 1853. A picturesque drive to the southern end of
the scenic George Washington Memorial Parkway, Mount Vernon is located just 16
miles from the nation’s capital. www.MountVernon.org
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