Two AHA Members are among the recently announced finalists for the 2013 George Washington Book Prize, sponsored by Washington College. Eliga H. Gould’s Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire (Harvard) and Cynthia A. Kierner’s  Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times (UNC)  were among the nominees for the prize which honors a  single recent work on Washington or his times and carries an award of $50,000.

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