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NJCH ANNUAL BOOK AWARD | TEACHER
OF THE YEAR | LIBRARY BOOK COLLECTION
 Each
year NJCH recognizes individuals whose exemplary
work in the public humanities has made a significant and lasting
difference in the lives of New Jerseyans. The Council recognizes
and lauds their signal contributions.
2009 Award Winners
Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities
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James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson is professor emeritus of history at Princeton University and renowned expert on the Civil War. The Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities Award is bestowed on him for his extraordinary efforts to inform Americans about the history of the Civil War era. McPherson has written and edited more than 25 books of history, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Most recently, he published Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (The Penguin Press), chosen as a 2009 NJCH Honor Book. Read more...
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NJCH Book Award
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed is professor of history at Rutgers University and professor of law at New York Law School. In The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (WW Norton, 2008), Gordon-Reed marshals her exhaustive research to tell the story of the Hemings family, recreating the world of 18th and 19th century slavery with a nuanced and careful eye. Her first book, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (University of Virginia Press, 1997) focused specifically on the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings. Read more...
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John Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Arthur Lefkowitz, Benedict Arnold’s Army: The 1775 American Invasion of Canada During the Revolutionary War (Savas Beatie)
W. Barksdale Maynard, Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency (Yale University Press)
James M. McPherson, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief (The Penguin Press)
Michael Robertson, Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples (Princeton University Press) Read more...
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Teacher of the Year
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Gregory Woodruff is an English and humanities teacher at Montclair High School. He has been chosen as the NJCH Teacher of the Year due to his success in introducing students to the humanities. His popular Humanities seminars connect the literature, art and philosophy of the past with the present using a student-centered approach that emphasizes inquiry and comprehension. A respected colleague, he has created an Economics Institute at the school and served as advisor for student groups.
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PAST WINNERS
2008
Public Humanities Award
Bruce Cole
Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
NJCH Book Award
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, by Michael B. Oren
Teacher of the Year
Scott C. Sax
Cherokee High School, Marlton
2007
Civic Leadership Award
Representative Rush D. Holt
Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities
Robert Fagles
NJCH Book Award
Winner: The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the
Triumph of Hope, by Jonathan Alter
Teacher of the Year
Winner: Patricia Hans, Ridgewood High School
2006
Public Humanities Award
Winner: Deborah T. Poritz, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of
New Jersey
NJCH Book Award
Winner: The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile
of Napoleon's Brother Joseph, by Patricia Tyson Stroud
Teacher of the Year
Winner: Bruce Paul Grefe, Creative Arts High School,
Camden
2005
Public Humanities Award
Winners: Charles F. Cummings and John T. Cunningham
NJCH Book Award
Winner: Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer
Teacher of the Year
Winner: Tara Pignoli, Westfield High School, Westfield, NJ
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