Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

Given by Phi Beta Kappa Society

87 oeuvres 26,565 Livres 427 critiques 4.1

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award is offered for scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity. Established in 1960, this award

afficher plus may recognize work in the fields of history, philosophy and religion. These fields are conceived in sufficiently broad terms to permit the inclusion of appropriate work in related fields such as anthropology and the social sciences. Biographies of public figures may be eligible if their primary critical emphasis is on the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity
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Winner 66

ŒuvreAnnée
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War par Deborah Cohen2023
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake par Tiya Miles2022
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War par Alice L Baumgartner2021
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom par Sarah A. Seo2020
The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America par Sarah E. Igo2019
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 par Mike Wallace2018
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America par Elizabeth Kai Hinton2017
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe par E.M. Rose2016
The Parthenon Enigma par Joan Breton Connelly2015
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition par David Nirenberg2014
L'attrapeur d'ombres. La vie épique d'Edward S. Curtis par Timothy Egan2013
Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse par Jay Rubenstein2012
Terres de sang. L'Europe entre Hitler et Staline par Timothy Snyder2011
Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy par Susan M. Reverby2010
The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning par Peter Trachtenberg2009
Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society par Leor Halevi2008
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World par David Brion Davis2007
American Curiosity par Susan Scott Parrish2006
Absolute Destruction par Isabel V. Hull2005
The End of the Soul par Jennifer Michael Hecht2004
The Eye of the Lynx par David Freedberg2003
Ermengarde de Narbonne et le monde des troubadours par Fredric L. Cheyette2002
Van Gogh and Gauguin par Debora Silverman2001
The Holocaust in American Life par Peter Novick2000
A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany par H. C. Erik Midelfort1999
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity par Jill Lepore1998
Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity par Steven B. Smith1997
Codex Telleriano-Remensis par Eloise Quinones Keber1996
The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 par Caroline Walker Bynum1995
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race par David Levering Lewis1994
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States par Theda Skocpol1993
The Radicalism of the American Revolution par Gordon S. Wood1992
In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought par Carl N. Degler1991
America's Rome, Volume 1: Classical Rome par William L. Vance1990
America's Rome, Volume 2: Catholic and Contemporary Rome par William L. Vance1990
Le renoncement à la chair par Peter Brown1989
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 par David Montgomery1988
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 par Alfred W. Crosby1987
The World of Thought in Ancient China par Benjamin I. Schwartz1986
The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation par Joel Williamson1985
A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (Galaxy Books) par Joel Williamson1985
Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture par David G. Roskies1984
The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 par Daniel Joseph Singal1983
Philosophical Explanations par Robert Nozick1982
White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History par George M. Fredrickson1981
Utopian Thought in the Western World par Frank E. Manuel1980
The Printing Press As an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe par Elizabeth L. Eisenstein1979
The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 par Bruce Kuklick1978
La fin des terroirs. La modernisation de la France rurale, 1870-1914 par Eugen Weber1977
The Great War and Modern Memory par Paul Fussell1976
The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam par Marshall G. S. Hodgson1975
Venise. Une république maritime par Frederic Chapin Lane1974
Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and Upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them par Barrington Moore1973
Théorie de la justice par John Rawls1972
American convictions; cycles of public thought, 1600-1850 par Charles A. Barker1971
Love and Will par Rollo May1970
Le Suicide d'une république. Weimar, 1918-1933 par Peter Gay1969
White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 par Winthrop D. Jordan1968
Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear par Robert Coles1967
The Career of Philosophy, Vol. 2: From the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin par John Herman Randall1966
O Strange New World par Howard Mumford Jones1965
Race: The History of an Idea in America par Thomas F. Gossett1964
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life par Richard Hofstadter1963
Freedom in the Ancient World par Herbert Joseph Muller1962
Mysticism and Philosophy par W. T. Stace1961
Philosophy and the Modern World par Albert William Levi1960

Shortlist 23

ŒuvreAnnée
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America par Dan Flores2023
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family par Kerri K. Greenidge2023
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance par Joseph Luzzi2023
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan par Darryl Pinckney2023
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake par Tiya Miles2022
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance par Mia Bay2022
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World par Linda Colley2022
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America par Nicole Eustace2022
Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness par Elizabeth D. Samet2022
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War par Alice L Baumgartner2021
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War par Vincent Brown2021
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own par Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.2021
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States par Walter Johnson2021
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory par Claudio Saunt2021
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America par Nicholas Buccola2020
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States par Erika Lee2020
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia par Christina Thompson2020
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs par Camilla Townsend2020
The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind par Justin Driver2019
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War par Joanne B. Freeman2019
When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History par Matthew Restall2019
Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters par Jennifer Summit2019
Jamais rien ne meurt. Vietnam, mémoire de la guerre par Viet Thanh Nguyen2017

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