Van Engen wins the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize

Van Engen

Abram Van Engen, professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize for “City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism” (Yale University Press). The Massachusetts Historical Society awards the prize for the best nonfiction work on the history of Massachusetts published during the preceding year.

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