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HNN is proud to announce the WINNERS of our subscription contest!

Distinguished Professor (Grand Prize): Judith Rood, Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, Biola University, and a contributor to HNN!

Professor (Second Prize): Walter E. Gourlay

Associate Professor (Third Prize): Nicholas D. Bausch

Assistant Professor (Fourth Prize): Maria Joyner

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Prizes

There are four levels of prize bundles:

 

 

  • Distinguished Professor: The grand prize winner will receive Ken Burns's The National Parks: America's Best Idea on DVD, plus the companion volume!

 

 

 

 

 

  • Professor: Our Early Twentieth Century Book Bundle! The runner-up will receive autographed copies of Alan Brinkley's Luce: The Life of an American Publisher and Jeff Shesol's Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court, and a copy of Daniel Okrent's Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.

 

 

 

 

  • Associate Professor: Our Revolutionary Book Bundle! The third place winner will receive autographed copies of Gordon S. Wood's Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 and Thomas Fleming's The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers.

 

 

 

 

  • Assistant Professor: The fourth place winner will receive a copy of Rick Perlstein's Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.