The 2008 Awards

The 2008 Awards ceremony on May 5, 2008, in New York City, the annual Parkman and Nevins prizes and the first annual Schlesinger Award were presented.

William E. Leuchtenburg, the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the first recipient of the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Award, for distinguished writing in American history of enduring public significance, jointly given by the Society and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.

Jean Edward Smith, the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and Professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, received the annual Francis Parkman Prize for his FDR, published by Random House in 2007.

Jessica M. Lepler, assistant professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, received the annual Allan Nevins Prize for her dissertation, “1837: Anatomy of a Panic,” defended at Brandeis University in 2007.