Scholarship Award
The Scholarship Award recognizes significant achievement in peer-reviewed scholarly activity.
Scholarship Award: Geoff Hamilton | America Freedom: The Basics
American Freedom: The Basics (forthcoming from Routledge, 2025) offers a concise introduction to ideals of freedom as they have been conceived, debated, and struggled for in the United States. The book’s ten chapters explore a series of key topics: the genesis and legacy of the nation’s founding principles; slavery and emancipation; territorial expansion and demographic change; Native American survivance; American feminism; liberation movements; economic independence; gun rights; the prison industrial complex; and personal autonomy in a digital age.