Please join NEHTA for our Kidger Lecture given following the NEHTA luncheon during the Northeast Regional Conference for the Social Studies (NERC) in Boston on March 13th, 2007.
The Kidger Award winner from the university level is Professor Jill Lepore of Harvard University. Professor Lepore has climbed the academic ranks rapidly, and deservedly so, for her outstanding scholarship and research as well as her wonderful narrative writing. Her books include The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (1998), Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award; Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents (1999); A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States (2002); and New York Burning: Liberty and Slavery in an Eighteenth-Century City, about an alleged conspiracy of enslaved Africans in New York City in 1741 (2005) and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Lepore was co-founder and co-editor of Common-place (www.common-place.org), an online American history magazine.
We will also host a reception that day (3/13/06) at which we will award all of the NEHTA awards. It will also be a 110th celebration of NEHTA.