2023 Ruth Ratner Miller Award for Excellence in American History
Ruth Ratner Miller Memorial Award for Excellence in American History: Robert A. Gross
Saturday, October 21, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Goodwin Forum, Main Library
This year's Miller Award recipient is Concord author Robert Gross. A specialist in the social and cultural history of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War, Robert A. Gross focuses particularly on New England. His first book The Minutemen and Their World received the Bancroft Prize in American History. His latest book The Transcendentalists and Their World was chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the ten best books of 2021. Book signing and reception to follow.
The Ruth Ratner Miller Memorial Award for Excellence in American History was established in 1998 and is sponsored by her four children to honor the life of their mother, Ruth Ratner Miller, who believed passionately that understanding history was not merely desirable but a civic and religious duty.
The lecture is an in-person event. Tickets can be purchased (cash or check only) at the Barrow Bookstore and the Concord Bookshop at $15 for adults, $5 for students. Digital tickets are $16 ($6 for students) through Zeffy. Generously funded by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library.
[Register for the 2023 Miller Award Event]
The event is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library.
Videos of many of the past Miller Award events can be seen on the YouTube Ruth Ratner Miller Award playlist.
Past Miller Award Recipients are:
1998 Stephen Ambrose
1999 James M. McPherson
2000 Thomas H. O'Connor
2001 Daniel J. Boorstin
2002 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
2003 Sandra Day O'Connor
2004 Edmund S. Morgan
2005 David Halberstam
2006 Doris Kearns Goodwin
2007 John Hope Franklin
2008 David Hackett Fischer
2009 David Herbert Donald
2010 Bernard Bailyn
2011 Pauline Maier
2012 Eric Foner
2013 Drew Gilpin Faust
2014 Nathaniel Philbrick
2015 Robert Dallek
2016 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
2017 Gordon S. Wood
2018 Annette Gordon-Reed
2019 John Stauffer
2020 Jill Lepore
2021 Heather Cox Richardson
2022 Sean Wilentz