Levine Wins Seaborg Award
Bruce Levine’s Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War (2005) has won the the Peter Seaborg Book Award, which “recognizes outstanding Civil War scholarship. Entries are judged on originality of approach or subject, effectiveness of presentation, historical accuracy, and degree of contribution to the field of knowledge.” The award was previously administered by Louisiana State University. It’s now administered by the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War at Shepherd College, West Virginia.
Bruce holds the James G. Randall Chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.