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By the end of 2008, the book received the Pulitzer Prize for History, the New-York Historical Society Book Prize, the silver medal for Nonfiction at the California Book Awards, and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic's Best Book Award.
American Pastoral was a scrupulously researched book: Roth traveled to Gloversville, New York, to learn about the glove-making industry and interviewed Yolande Fox, the winner of the 1951 Miss America pageant, while developing the character of Dawn Dwyer. [3] Roth later said, of his conversations with Fox, "She was very smart, very funny. ...
Robert P. Shuler – Prohibition Party candidate who received the highest vote in any election in US history; Methodist pastor; Johnnie Simpson, Jr. - United Methodist pastor, Councilman for Dickinson TX, [4] and Board Member for Houston-Galveston Area Council. Donald Soper, Baron Soper – prominent Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist
C. F. W. Walther was born a pastor's son in Langenchursdorf in the Kingdom of Saxony (part of modern-day Germany). Out of a strong religious commitment, he immigrated to the United States in 1838, initially as a follower of Martin Stephan.
Election Day in Philadelphia (1815) by John Lewis Krimmel, picturing the site of Independence Hall [1] and demonstrating the importance of elections as public occasions. In the 19th century, a number of new methods for conducting American election campaigns developed in the United States.
Every election cycle, my husband has a story he likes to tell about his first-grade election night assignment—he had to fill in the 2000 Bush vs. Gore electoral map. (I asked him whether he did ...
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has shared her first interaction after the 2016 election with former first lady Melania Trump in her new book that came out Tuesday.. The meeting occurred ...
A History of the Book in America is a five-volume series of scholarly books of essays published 2000–2010 by the University of North Carolina Press, and edited by David D. Hall. [1] Topics include printing, publishing, book selling, reading, and other aspects of print culture in colonial America and the United States.