Book Prize

The Philip S. Klein Book Prize is awarded in even numbered years for the best book on Pennsylvania History

For more information, contact the committee chair, James Koshan, Thiel College, jkoshan@thiel.edu.

Philip S. Klein Book Prize Winners

October 2012 (for 2010-2011)

Judith Ridner, A Town In-Between: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010).

October 2010 (for 2008-2009)

Sarah Fatherly, Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (Lehigh University Press, 2008).

October 2008 (for 2006-2007)

Terry Bouton, Democracy: “The People,” The Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2007).

October 2006 (for 2004-2005)

Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005).

October 2004 (for 2002-2003)

Bruce Dorsey, Reforming Men and Women: Gender in Antebellum City (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002).

October 2002 (for 2000-2001)

William A. Blair and William A. Pencak, Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001).

October 2000 (for 1998-1999)

Kenneth J. Heineman, A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh, (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999).

October 1998 (for 1996-97)

Carol Reardon, Pickett's Charge in History and Memory, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997).

October 1996 (for 1994-95)

Ewa Morawska, Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).