2018 Book Prize Call for Submissions (open)
The Center for Historic Preservation at The University of Mary Washington seeks nominations for its 2018 Historic Preservation Book Prize. Established by the Center in 1988, the Historic Preservation Book Prize is awarded annually by a jury of preservation academics and professionals to the book with the most potential for positively impacting the discipline of historic preservation in the United States. In making its selection, the jury focuses on books that break new ground or contribute to the intellectual vitality of the preservation movement. Entries may come from any discipline that relates to the theory or practice of historic preservation. Nominations may be made by any source.
In order for a book to be eligible for the 2018 Historic Preservation Book Prize, it must be available in the United States between January 1, and December 31, 2017. Letters of nomination and seven (7) copies of the nominated book must be postmarked by January 5, 2018, and sent to:
Michael Spencer
Center for Historic Preservation
University of Mary Washington
1301 College Avenue, Combs 135
Fredericksburg, VA 22401-5300
Announcement of the book selected for the 2018 Historic Preservation Book Prize will be made during Preservation Week in May 2018. The author will receive a check in the amount of $500.00 and will be invited to deliver a lecture at The University of Mary Washington. Both the author and the publisher will receive certificates in recognition of the award. N.B: Second and later editions of previously published texts will not be considered for the Book Prize unless substantial revisions to the book’s contents have occurred. Publishers are urged to contact the Center (mspen1bi@umw.edu) if they have any questions regarding this stipulation.
Previous Book Prize Winners
| 1989 | David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country |
| 1990 TIE | Samuel N. Stokes and A. Elizabeth Watson and others, Saving America’s Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation and T. H. Breen, Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories |
| 1991 | Catherine W. Bishir, Charlotte V. Brown, Carl R. Lounsbury and Ernest H. Wood, Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building |
| 1992 | Daniel Bluestone, Constructing Chicago |
| 1993 | Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park and the People: A History of Central Park |
| 1994 | Martha K. Norkunas, The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History, and Ethnicity in Monterey, California |
| 1995 | Carl R. Lounsbury, An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape |
| 1996 | Elizabeth Collins Cromley and Carter Hudgins, Gender, Class, and Shelter: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture |
| 1997 | Mike Wallace, Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory |
| 1998 | Kenneth E. Foote, Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy |
| 1999 | Roy R. Rosenzweig, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life |
| 2000 | Richard Longstreth, The Drive-In, The Supermarket, and The Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941 |
| 2001 | Daniel, Reiff, Houses from Books: Treatises, Pattern Books, and Catalogs in American Architecture, 1738-1950 |
| 2002 | Joseph C. Biggott, From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869-1929 |
| 2003 | Susan L. Klaus, A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens |
| 2004 | Nancy S. Seasholes, Gaining Ground, A History of Landmaking in Boston |
| 2005 | Alison Isenberg, Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It |
| 2006 | Stephanie Yuhl, A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston |
| 2010 | Edna E. Kimbro and Julia G. Costello with Tevvy Ball, The California Missions: History, Art, and Preservation |
| 2011 | Lois Olcott Price, Line, Shade and Shadow |
| 2012 | Jeffrey Chusid, Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity |
| 2013 | Paul Hardin Kapp & Paul J. Armstrong, SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City |
| 2014 | Francoise Bollack, Old Buildings New Forms |
| 2015 | Marta Gutman, A City for Children; Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950 |
| 2016 | Barbara Miller Lane, Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945-1965 |
| 2017 | Catherine Fleming Bruce, The Sustainers: Being, Building and Doing Good Through Activism in the Sacred Spaces of Civil Rights, Human Rights and Social Movements |