{"id":22,"date":"2008-03-28T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T11:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/?p=22"},"modified":"2010-08-30T07:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T12:00:40","slug":"daniel-mandell-awarded-2008-oah-levine-prize-for-best-book-in-american-cultural-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/2008\/03\/28\/daniel-mandell-awarded-2008-oah-levine-prize-for-best-book-in-american-cultural-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Mandell awarded 2008 OAH Levine Prize for Best Book in American Cultural History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2010\/08\/mandell2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2010\/08\/mandell2-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Daniel R. Mandell, Truman State  University, has been selected by the Organization of American Historians (OAH)  to receive the inaugural Lawrence W. Levine Award, which is given annually for  the best book in American cultural history.\u00a0 On Saturday, March 29, OAH  President Nell Irvin Painter and President-Elect Pete Daniel will present the  award in New York City during the 101st Annual Meeting of the Organization.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880<\/em> (The Johns Hopkins University Press) examines how cultures survive&#8211;how culture  is contested, revised, transformed and passed on. It looks specifically at New  England Indian tribes and their efforts to maintain cultural traditions and  political identities and rights in the volatile, aggressive American marketplace  from the early Republic through Reconstruction. Mandell uses a broad range of  sources to establish how Native Americas used the resources American culture  presented&#8211;commerce, religion, politics, fiction, folklore&#8211;to maintain a sense  of distinctiveness and tradition. The book offers a synthetic account not just  of Native American survival, but of the ways people negotiate power. The  committee admired the depth and extent of research, and the humanist sensibility  that marked the writing. In its emphasis on subaltern people&#8217;s struggling in  myriad ways to create a culture that gave full range to their sense of who they  were, Mandell&#8217;s book most clearly reflects the legacy of Lawrence W. Levine.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1907, OAH is the largest learned society and professional  organization dedicated to the teaching and study of the American past. OAH  promotes excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American  history, and encourages wide discussion of historical questions and equitable  treatment of all practitioners of history. Members in the U.S. and abroad  include college and university professors; students; precollegiate teachers;  archivists, museum curators, and other public historians employed in government  and the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>For information:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.oah.org<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.oah.org\/about\/contact.php<br \/>\nPhone: 812-855-7311<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel R. Mandell, Truman State University, has been selected by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) to receive the inaugural Lawrence W. Levine Award, which is given annually for the best book in American cultural history.\u00a0 On Saturday, March 29, OAH President Nell Irvin Painter and President-Elect Pete Daniel will present the award in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}