Mark Peterson Awarded James P. Hanlan Book Prize
NEHA’s Book Prize Committee (Kristen Petersen, Marie B. McDaniel, Ian Delahanty, and Martin Menke) are delighted to announce the winner of this year’s James P. Hanlan Book Prize. Mark Peterson, the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University, has received the award for his work The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865 (Princeton, 2019). Publisher’s Website Reviewer comments included: “The word that comes to mind for this book is “magisterial.†Petersen delivers a three centuries long history…