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The American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award
2003 – It is official the committee headed by John A. Nagy has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2003 goes to Willard Sterne Randall for his book “Alexander Hamilton: A Life“.
2004 – It is official the committee headed by John A. Nagy has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2004 goes to John Buchanan for his book “The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army that Won the Revolution“.
2005 – It is official the committee headed by John A. Nagy has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2005 goes to Glenn Williams for his book “Year Of The Hangman: George Washington’s Campaign Against The Iroquois“.
2006 – It is official the committee headed by John A. Nagy has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2006 goes to Charles Rappleye for his book “Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution“.
2007 – It is official the committee has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2007 goes to John A. Nagy for his book “Rebellion in the Ranks Mutinies of the American Revolution“.
2008 – It is official the committee headed by John A. Nagy has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2008 goes to Matthew H. Spring for his book “With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783”.
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2009 – It is official the committee headed by John A. Nagy has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2009 to Dr. Nancy K. Loane for her book “Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment”.
2010 – It is official the committee headed by John A. Nagy has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2010 to Tim McGrath for his book “John Barry An American Hero in the Age of Sail”.
2011 – No Award
2012– It is official the committee headed by John A. Nagy has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2012, to Samuel A. Foreman for his book “Dr. Joseph Warren – The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty”.
2013 – It is official the committee headed by John A. Nagy has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2013 to Andrew O’Shaughnessy for his book, “The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire”.
2014 – None
2015 – None
2016 – None
2017 (Book of the Year) – It is official the Book Award Committee has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2017 to David Smith for his book, “Whispers Across the Atlantick: General William Howe and the American Revolution“
2017 (Honorable Mention)-The Book Award Committee also selected an Honorable Mention category to 2017, and we are happy to announce that the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Honorable Mention Book Award on the American Revolution Era published in 2017 goes to Virginia DeJohn Anderson for her book “The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution“
2018 (Book of the Year) – It is official, the Book Award Committee has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2018 to Colin G. Calloway for his book, “The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation”
2018 (Honorable Mention) – The Book Award Committee also selected an Honorable Mention category for 2018, and we are happy to announce that the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Honorable Mention Book Award on the American Revolution Era published in 2018 goes to Nathaniel Philbrick for his book “In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown“
2019 (Book of the Year) – It is official, the Book Award Committee has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2019 to Aaron Sullivan for his book “The Disaffected: Britain’s Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution”
2019 (Honorable Mention) – The Book Award Committee also selected an Honorable Mention category for 2019, and we are happy to announce that the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Honorable Mention Book Award on the American Revolution Era published in 2019 goes to John Gilbert McCurdy for his book “Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution“
2020 (Book of the Year) – It is official, the Book Award Committee has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2020 to Don Hagist for his book “Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution”
2020 (Honorable Mention) – The Book Award Committee also selected an Honorable Mention category for 2020, and we are happy to announce that the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Honorable Mention Book Award on the American Revolution Era published in 2019 goes to David Head for his book “A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution”
2021 (Book of the Year) – It is official, the Book Award Committee has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2021 to Holly Mayer for her book “Congress’s Own: A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union.
2021 (Honorable Mention) – The Book Award Committee also selected an Honorable Mention category for 2021, and we are happy to announce that the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia’s Honorable Mention Book Award on the American Revolution Era published in 2021 goes to Julie Flavell for her book , “The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women Behind Britain’s Wars for America“.