Research Recognition
Hamilton Book Author Awards Program: 1999 Awards
Grand Prize Winner
- Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Professor of Art & Art History
Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works
Princeton University Press
Runners-Up
- Julius G. Getman, Professor of Law
The Betrayal of Local 14
Cornell University Press
- Kevin Kenny, Assistant Professor of History
Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
Oxford University Press
- David M. Rabban, Professor of Law
Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years
Cambridge University Press
- David V. Edwards, Professor of Government
Alessandra Lippucci, Lecturer in Government
Practicing American Politics: An Introduction to Government
Worth Publishers
Textbook Award
About the Books
Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works
by Linda Dalrymple Henderson
In this landmark book, Linda Henderson provides the first systematic study of the Large Glass in relation to the entire corpus of Duchamp's notes for the project. Since Duchamp declared his interest in creating a “Playful Physics,” she focuses on the scientific and technological themes that pervade the notes and the imagery of the Large Glass. In order to recover that content, Henderson provides an unprecedented history of science as popularly known at the turn of the century, centered on the late Victorian physics that dominated scientific practice and the public imagination. (excerpts from a review by Princeton University Press)
Linda Dalrymple Henderson is a Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Practicing American Politics: An Introduction to Government
by David V. Edwards and Alessandra Lippucci
David V. Edwards is a Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Alessandra Lippucci is a political and social theorist and a lecturer in American Government at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Betrayal of Local 14
by Julius G. Getman
Although International Paper, the richest paper company and largest landowner in the United States, enjoyed record profits and gave large bonuses to executives in 1987, that same year the company demanded that employees take a substantial paycut, sacrifice hundreds of jobs, and forego their Christmas holiday. At the Androscoggin Mill in Jay, Maine, twelve hundred workers responded by going on strike from June 1987 to October 1988. Local union members mobilized an army of volunteers, but International Paper brought in permanent replacement workers and the strike was ultimately lost. Julius Getman tells the story of that strike and its implications—a story of a community changing under pressure; of surprising leaders, strategists, and orators emerging; of lifelong friendships destroyed and new bonds forged. (excerpts from a review by Cornell University Press)
Julius Getman is a Professor at the University of Texas Law School at Austin.
Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
by Kevin Kenny
Twenty Irishmen, accused of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murders of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly Maguires were, what they did, and why they did it. Combining social and cultural history, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires paints a completely new portrait of the Molly Maguires and examines why people wrote and believed such curious things about them. In the process, it vividly retells one of the classic stories of American labor and immigration. (from a review by Oxford University Press)
Kevin Kenny is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years
by David Rabban
Most American historians and legal scholars assume that controversies and litigation about free speech began abruptly during World War I. Rabban's book reveals that this conventional view is incorrect. There was substantial popular, legal, and intellectual debate about free speech issues between the Civil War and World War I. . . . . . .
The history recounted in this book sheds light on important current debates about “rights talk” and about the complicated historical enterprise of studying ideas over time. It also compels significant reevaluations of familiar figures, such as Justices Holmes and Brandeis, and important organizations, such as the ACLU. (excerpts from a review by Cambridge University Press)
David Rabban is a Professor at the University of Texas Law School at Austin.
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