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American colonials: The General Society of Colonial Wars presented Boston University with the John Adams Grant for Studies in American Colonial History. The $5,000 annual grant supports doctoral student research and publication in the field of American colonial history, defined as prior to the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775. The last BU professor to receive a society grant was Jill Lepore, a CAS associate professor of history and director of undergraduate studies. The grant provided funding for research on her first book, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity, which won the 1998 Bancroft Prize for historical literature. The society chose BU for the John Adams Grant because of Lepore’s success. From left to right: Kenneth M. Hills, deputy governor general of the Massachusetts chapter, Society of Colonial Wars, Tyler Field II, secretary general of the society, Lepore, Charles Dellheim, a CAS professor and chair of the history department, and Thomas H. Townsend, governor of the society’s Massachusetts chapter. Photo by Vernon Doucette

8 March 2002
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