2010 CDA Book Award Winners
The recipients are:
AWARD
Title:
CIVIL WAR WIVES: The Lives of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis and Julia Dent Grant
Author:
Carol Berkin
About
In Civil War Wives, Carol Berkin explores the lives of three remarkable women—Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant—who, though lacking formal power, witnessed and influenced pivotal events of the 19th century. Through letters and personal writings, Berkin uncovers their struggles with identity, marriage, and societal expectations during a time of national upheaval. Each woman offers a distinct perspective: Grimké’s fight for abolition, Davis’s conflicted role as First Lady of the Confederacy, and Grant’s endurance through her husband’s turbulent rise and fall. Their stories reveal the personal costs of dependency and the quiet courage of women in history.
CITATION
Title:
SMALL WONDER: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory
Author:
Jonathan Zimmerman
About
Drawing on a rich range of sources, from firsthand accounts to poems, songs, and films, Jonathan Zimmerman traces the evolution of attitudes toward the little red schoolhouse from the late nineteenth century to the present day. At times it was celebrated as a symbol of lost rural virtues or America’s democratic heritage; at others it was denounced as the epitome of inefficiency and substandard academics. And because the one-room school has been a useful emblem for liberal, conservative, and other agendas, the truth of its history has sometimes been stretched. Yet the idyllic image of the schoolhouse still unites Americans. For more than a century, it has embodied the nation’s best aspirations andespeciallyits continuing faith in education itself.
AWARD
Title:
A Picture Book of Dolley and James Madison
Author:
David A. Adler and Michael S. Adler
About
Illustrator
Ronald Himler
About
Known as the Father of the Constitution, James Madison served two terms as the fourth president, from 1809 until 1817. When the British set fire to Washington D.C., in 1814, Dolley saved one of our country’s greatest treasures, a portrait of George Washington, before fleeing for her life.