The Cox Book Prize
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The Cox Book Prize has been
awarded every third year since 1989 to the author of a
distinguished work of American history in the era of
the American Revolution published during the previous three
years. The prize is awarded by a committee consisting
of members of the Society and distinguished academics
in the field of early American history. The prize is
made possible by an endowment gift of $100,000 from
the family of Dr. H. Bartholomew Cox and was named in
their honor in grateful recognition of their
generosity and long service to the Society.
The most recent recipient of the Cox Book Prize is Matthew H. Spring, Ph.D., a history instructor at the Truro School in Cornwall, England, in recognition of his book With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775 - 1783 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008). In his book, Mr. Spring offers a new perspective on the military tactics of the British Army during the American Revolution, including insight into the operational and logistical problems it faced as well as its reliance on bayonet-oriented shock tactics.
The prize was presented to Mr. Spring at a black-tie
dinner at Anderson House on September 11, 2010. The
Society congratulates Mr. Spring and offers thanks to
the members of the committee who reviewed the many
outstanding books considered for the prize.
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Recipients to date:
1989: Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (New York: Knopf, 1986).
1992: Peter D.G. Thomas, Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
1995: Stanley M. Elkins and Eric L. McKitrick, The Age of Federalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
1998: Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (New York: Knopf, 1996).
2001: Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999).
2004: Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox
Epidemic of 1775-1782 (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001).
2007: Alan Taylor, The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).
2010: Matthew H. Spring, With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008).
