Patricia Buckley Ebrey Prize Recipients
The Patricia Buckley Ebrey Prize is offered annually for a distinguished book in the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan, prior to 1800.
2022
name
2020 Palmegiano Prize
Vincent DiGirolamo, Baruch College, City University of New York
Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys (Oxford Univ. Press)
In exploring the exigencies of the newspaper industry and capitalism’s exploitation of child workers, Vincent DiGirolamo’s meticulously researched study traces “young toilers in the cause of truth,” starting from the first anonymous enslaved boy who handed out the news in the American colonies through to the last youth newspaper hawkers found at the end of the “American Century.” DiGirolamo masterfully contributes to debates in childhood studies, labor and economic history, and media history.