The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library's Miller Award Committee present
historian Robert A. Gross Photo Credit: Gaby Chiha
ROBERT A. GROSS is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of the celebrated book, The Transcendentalists and Their World (2021) as well as the BancroftPrize winner, The Minutemen and Their World (1976), and Books and Libraries in Thoreau’s Concord (1988). With Mary Kelley, he is the coeditor of An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790–1840 (2010). A former assistant editor of Newsweek, Gross has written for such periodicals as Esquire, Harper’s Magazine, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times, and his essays have appeared in The American Scholar, The New England Quarterly, Raritan, and The Yale Review. A revised edition of Gross's influential The Minutemen and Their World was published by Picador in 2022 in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.
2023 Ruth Ratner Miller Memorial Award
for
Excellence in American History Winner
Robert A. Gross
Saturday, October 21
7:00 PM
an In-Person Presentation in the
Goodwin Forum
Concord Free Public Library
129 Main St.
Tickets for this in-person event are $15 for adults or $5 for students. Miller Award 2023 tickets can be purchased in Concord at the Barrow Bookstore (cash or check only) or at the Concord Bookshop. Digital tickets are $16 ($6 for students) through Zeffy at cfpl.info/friendsmiller. This year, advance tickets will not be sold at the Library.
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“In The Transcendentalists and Their World, Gross has delivered a second harvest of his career-long work. It is a measured, beautiful volume that brings warm life, accuracy, and complexity to local history, swooping between the bird’s-eye view and the tracery of many individual destinies.”
“As a historian, as a researcher, he earns an A. This capstone to his work on Concord will likely be cherished by future scholars.”
“Emerson Didn't Practice the Self-Reliance He Preached”
— The Atlantic
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