| Best American Revolution Book Awarded |
HEAR YE! HEAR YE!
Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News by Todd Andrlik is being awarded the annual prize of best American Revolution book by The New York Revolutionary War Round Table. This great honor puts Andrlik in the prestigious company of previous winners, including Maya Jasanoff, professor of history at Harvard’s Center for European Studies, for her book, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World; Benjamin L. Carp, professor of history at Tufts University, for Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America; Mary Beth Norton of Cornell University; Charles Bracelen Flood; and Thomas Fleming. (Continued below)
“I’m grateful to the New York Revolutionary War Round Table and thrilled to join such an impressive list of past recipients,” said Andrlik. “I had the privilege of speaking at the Round Table in December and learned from its members just how much this book transcends normal history circles, appealing to both amateur and professional historians as well as casual history enthusiasts.”
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The New York Revolutionary War Round Table was founded in 1958 and is now in its fifty-fifth year. It meets five times a year to hear a talk by an author of a new book on the Revolutionary War.
“Seldom, if ever, have we welcomed a book with more power to carry us back to the days of 1776 with such compelling authenticity,” said The New York Revolutionary War Round Table in its February 2013 newsletter announcing the honor.
Todd Andrlik is among the nation’s leading authorities on eighteenth-century newspapers. He has built one of the most significant collections of American Revolution–era newspapers—containing the earliest printed reports of practically every major event and battle from 1763 to 1783. This once-private archive is now publicly exhibited in Reporting the Revolutionary War.
Reporting the Revolutionary War features vivid eyewitness accounts, battlefield letters, and breaking news compiled from hundreds of newspapers on both sides of the
Essays from thirty-seven historians and American Revolutionary experts guide the reader through the initial dissent of the Boston Tea Party to the battlefields of
Andrlik is curator, publisher, and author of RagLinen.com, an online museum of historically significant newspapers dating back to the sixteenth century. Collaborating with individuals and institutions, including the Library of Congress, Andrlik helps others build private and public collections of these treasured relics. He also takes an active role in their physical conservation. Through a partnership with one of the world’s top paper conservators, Andrlik saves damaged newspapers from loss and restores the artifacts as close as possible to original condition.