Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

by Glenda Gilmore

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The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought & Politics

by Annping Chin
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Congratulations to Seth Fein for winning the Graduate Mentor Award in the Humanities from the Yale Graduate School.

Congratulations to Keith Wrightson for winning the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.

Congratulations to John Lewis Gaddis for winning the Harwood F. Byrnes/ Richard B. Sewall Prize for his contribution to teaching at Yale.

Congratulations to Marci Shore for winning the Oskar Halecki Polish/East Central European History Award by the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences in America and also for winning the Orbis Books Prize for Polish studies awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies "for the best book in any discipline on any aspect of Polish affairs this year."  Professor Shore receives both prizes for her book, Caviar & Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, published by Yale University Press.
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Congratulations to John Matthews, whose book, The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business and Daily Life in the Roman East (Yale University Press, 2006) has won the 2007 James Henry Breasted Prize for "the best book in English in any field of history prior to CE 1000" by the American Historical Association.

Congratulations to Frank Snowden, whose book, The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962 (2006), has won the Gustav Ranis Prize from the MacMillan Center at Yale in 2007 as "the best book on an international topic by a member of the Yale Faculty."  Conquest has also been awarded the 2008 Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine.