Rick Atkinson wins Fraunces Tavern Museum 2020 Book Award

Former Washington Post reporter Rick Atkinson will accept the Fraunces Tavern Museum 2020 Book Award for The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777. This annual prize recognizes the best newly published work on the American Revolution.

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Jon Meacham says ‘history is a tactile thing’

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and writer has been named Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral, the first to hold this title.

War Named Top Ten Book of 2020

Festival writer Dr. Margaret MacMillan’s most recent book, War: How Conflict Shaped Us, was named one of The New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2020.

Operation Mincemeat Coming to the Big Screen

Ben Macintyre’s book Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory is coming to the big screen.

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