Published July 1, 2009 | Issue:
Summer 2009

Professors G. Calvin Mackenzie (government) and Robert Weisbrot (history) were among the three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in history for their book,
The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s, which was described as “an elegantly written account of a brief period in American history that left a profoundly altered national landscape.” The award went to
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed.