Ira Berlin was Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was the 2015 winner of the American Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction.

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Awards & Accolades

1999 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University

1999 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Co-Winner, 1999 Elliott Rudwick Prize, Organization of American Historians

Co-Winner, 1999 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award, Southern Historical Association

Honorable Mention, 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America

1998 PROSE Award for History, Association of American Publishers

Finalist, 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History

Finalist, 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

A Christian Science Monitor Top 10 Pick in Nonfiction, 1998

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