A 2018 Independent Publisher Gold Medal for The Suffragents-US-History-Category

Independent Book Publisher press release with full list of  winners:

April 12, 2018

2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards

22nd Annual Awards

GENERAL MEDALISTS

58. History (U.S.)

GOLD: Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote, by Brooke Kroeger (SUNY Press)

SILVER: Music at the White House from the 18th to the 21st Centuries, by Elise K. Kirk (The White House Historical Association)

BRONZE (tie): Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror, by Angela D. Sims (Baylor University Press)

Forgotten Under a Tropical Sun: War Stories by American Veterans in the Philippines, 1898-1913, by Joseph P. McCallus (Kent State University Press)

 

 

The Suffragents won the  Gold Medal in US History in the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards competition.

National History Day contestants: Please read this.

Upcoming in 2018: April 22: Nassau County Historical Society  at the Jericho Public Library.  April 29: St. George’s School Women’s Leadership Group May 12: East Hampton Library’s Tom Twomey Series (interviewing NY Times media columnist, Jim Rutenberg) May 20: Women’s Suffrage and NYC: A Centennial Celebration Symposium: Bronx Historical Society and Woodlawn Cemetery  June 14: Roosevelt Island Historical Society. July 7 East Hampton Library’s Tom Twomey Series (hosting with Sara Davison the garden author and expert Charlotte M. Frieze) : August 4: Shelter Island Historical Society.

Read about The Suffragents in reviews, notices and articles, in articles by Brooke, on Facebook, and in Brooke’s informal “Summer Camp Newsletter” posts.