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The New York Times Book Review selected it as one of its 100 top books of 2009. [66] Empire of Liberty was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in History and received the American History Book Prize from the New-York Historical Society. [67] The audiobook edition received the Audio Publishers Association's 2011 Audie Award for History. [51]
Issues like these for both perpetual access and with digital preservation have garnered some more recent attention through single discipline efforts or government level. One example is the Keepers Registry, which equips libraries with resources to help them navigate perpetual access and digital preservation topics as a whole. [12]
Opponents of perpetual copyright argued that it amounted to a monopoly, which inflated the price of books, making them less affordable and therefore prevented the spread of the Enlightenment. London booksellers were attacked for using rights of authors to mask their greed and self-interest in controlling the book trade. [11] [12]
[2]: 370–374 For the volume on United States history during what was popularly called the "Age of Jackson", Woodward and Hofstadter chose between William W. Freehling and Charles Grier Sellers; Hofstadter considered Sellers's prose inadequate, so the coeditors initially appointed Freehling to the task, but after Kenneth M. Stampp—initially ...
The book received multiple prizes: the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, [1] the 2023 Bancroft Prize, the 2023 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, [2] the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, [3] and the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.
Reviews in American History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1973 and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. It publishes reviews of new books on the topic of American history, as well as retrospectives on influential titles of the past. All areas of American history, including political, military, economic ...
The journal's offices in Bloomington, Indiana. Founded in 1895, The American Historical Review was a joint effort between the history departments at Cornell University and at Harvard University, modeled on The English Historical Review and the French Revue historique, [5] "for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the ...
Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, And Liberty is a non-fiction book authored by American socio-political commentator Ivan Eland.Published in 2009 by the Independent Institute, [1] the book reviews the history of the United States with a particular emphasis on that of the presidents who have led the nation.