Founded in 1985, this award honors the work of authors writing for adults that deal imaginatively with history, science, biography, the arts, and other general nonfiction subjects. In addition to the Prize Winners, the Committee designates Notable Books, which are deemed worthy of attention and publication. A new list of Notable Books is published each year at the same time that the Winners are announced. A collection of Notable Book lists from 1985 to 1999, when the Prize was known as The Best of the Bunch, is also available for purchase.

In addition to the Hillman prizes in the United States and Canada, The Sidney Foundation sponsors a monthly Sidney Prize for investigative journalism that exposes social and economic injustice. Anyone may nominate a piece of journalism in service of the common good; the deadline for nominations is the last day of each month. Winners receive a $500 honorarium and a certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist Edward Sorel.

This prize, named in honor of Sir Sydney Cox ’33, was established to promote excellence in undergraduate scholarship through writing, to encourage students to study the historical background of their subject and to make them aware of the need for a critical understanding of history. The Committee consists of members from the Faculty and alumni of Dartmouth College. One of its tasks is to assemble the manuscripts submitted for consideration by its members and to discuss them at the Committee’s meetings in Hanover each spring.

Named in memory of Sidney Edelstein, an expert on the history of dyes and their processes and founder of the Dexter Chemical Corporation. The prize was established through the generosity of the family of Ruth Edelstein Barish, who is a trustee of this fund. The Society offers this award at its annual conference to the author of a published article based on dissertation research in CCT or related theory.

Edward Jones-Imhotep, a professor in the Department of History, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University, has won the prestigious Sidney Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) for his work on natural disasters and their place in American culture. He is the first scholar from a Canadian institution to win this coveted prize.

SHOT is pleased to announce that Professor Kate Carte of Southern Methodist University has won the 2024 Sidney Prize for Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History. The book, published by Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, is the first comprehensive study of religion in the American Revolution and its aftermath. This is the third book Carte has published with this publisher. The book is a culmination of more than a decade of research and includes new material on the religious landscape, including the growth of Baptist congregations, Quaker groups, and the impact of slavery. It is a landmark study that will serve as the primary source for many future studies of this crucial period in American history.