September 2023 Newsletter

SHOOT THE MOON

August 2023 Newsletter

JUSTICE ALWAYS TRIUMPHS

July 2023 Newsletter

A LOOK TO LIBERTY

June 2023 Newsletter

PRELUDE TO PROGRESS

Suffragettes

Suffragettes, a triptych stained glass mural by artist Clarice Smith, at the New-York Historical Society.

 

 

May 2023 Newsletter

Submit Your Book for the 2023 Grateful American Book Prize

The 2023 Grateful American Book Prize is now accepting submissions. They should be works of non-fiction, fiction, or biographies suitable for 7th to 9th graders, published between August 1, 2022, and July 31, 2023.

“Over the past several decades schools have gradually de-emphasized history in the classroom with the result that kids today do not know who George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were,” according to David Bruce Smith, Co-founder of the Prize. “It’s been a lingering problem for quite some time and so, at the behest and in collaboration with the late Dr. Bruce Cole, the former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, we established the Prize as an incentive for authors and publishers to focus on history for young readers. As Dr. Cole put it, ‘we are a country of historical amnesiacs’ and perhaps historical ‘page turners’ for kids may be just what the doctor ordered.”

The Prize comes with $13,000 in commemoration of the 13 original Colonies, a lifetime membership at the New-York Historical Society, and a medallion created by Smith’s mother, the renowned artist, Clarice Smith. Honorable Mention recipients receive $500 each, and the medallion.

Submit your book via the online submission form.

April 2023 Newsletter

LOVELY LADIES

Self-Portrait
à la Ingres

David

Michael

Stacy