{"id":10300,"date":"2018-02-26T11:40:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T15:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=10300"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T19:08:28","slug":"george-washington-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/george-washington-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"K Professor, Author a Finalist for George Washington Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kalamazoo College History<\/a> Professor James Lewis has been named a finalist for the George Washington Prize, a $50,000 annual award that recognizes the authors of the past year’s most influential books about the nation’s founding era.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis,\u201d written by K History Professor James Lewis, is a finalist for the George Washington Prize.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lewis\u2019s 2017 book<\/a>, \u201cThe Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis,\u201d explores former Vice President Aaron Burr\u2019s travels through the Trans-Appalachian West in 1805 and 1806, gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, leading to his arrest and trial on treason charges in 1807. Rumors at the time stated Burr had enticed some people with plans to liberate Spanish Mexico, others with promises of land in the Louisiana Purchase, and others with talk of building a new empire beyond the Appalachian Mountains.<\/p>\n

The book, available through many bookstores and online sites, also examines the political and cultural forces that shaped how Americans made sense of Burr\u2019s intentions and movements, and the crisis after his arrest including concerns about the nation\u2019s fragile union and uncertain republic.<\/p>\n

Lewis has taught courses in U.S. history, Native American history, American environmental history, Revolutionary America, the American frontier and Western history, the history of U.S. foreign relations, post-World War II America, American political culture, the trial in American history and a senior seminar in history at K. He is a professional member of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.<\/p>\n

Lewis\u2019s other books include:<\/p>\n