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The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established with the goal "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America." [1] Established in 1989 by National Book Awards, Inc., [2] the foundation is the administrator and sponsor of the National Book Awards, a set of literary awards inaugurated in 1936 and continuous from 1950.
Richard Sidney Slotkin (born November 8, 1942) [1] is a cultural critic and historian. He is the Olin Professor of English and American Studies, Emeritus at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and, since 2010, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The book was important to Wilhelm II, who became Chamberlain's friend (the two held a correspondence), and as a "spiritual" foundation of the Third Reich. Chamberlain's ideas on race were greatly influential to Adolf Hitler , who readily adapted them into his Nazi ideology; Chamberlain himself joined the Nazi party, and both Hitler and Goebbels ...
In a slightly different sense, the term history refers not to an academic field but to the past itself or to individual texts about the past. History is a broad discipline encompassing many branches. Some focus on specific time periods, such as ancient history, while others concentrate on particular geographic regions, such as the history of ...
At least three books have won two National Book Awards. Dates are award years. John Clive, Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian; 1974 Biography; 1974 History. Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard; 1979 Contemporary Thought; 1980 General Nonfiction, Paperback. Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
The National Book Award for Translation was introduced in 1967 and split between two books, [27] the first split. [25] Children's literature was first recognized as one of seven categories in 1969. [28] Two awards were split in 1973 for the first time. [25] Publishers dropped their support after 1974 and the National Book Committee was ...
An Evergreen Protective Association volunteer recording an oral history at Greater Rosemont History Day. Oral history is the collection and study of historical information from people, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people ...
The general "Nonfiction" award was one of three when the National Book Awards were re-established in 1950 for 1949 publications, which the National Book Foundation considers the origin of its current Awards series. [3] From 1964 to 1983, under different administrators, there were multiple nonfiction categories. [3]