In conjunction with the AHA annual meeting in Boston, the History News Network of George Mason University announced the sixth annual Cliopatria Awards for History Blogging on Friday. The award for Best Series of Posts went to Jamie Malanowski, David Blight, William Freehling, Adam Goodheart, and others, for Disunion, on the New York Times Opinionator site. According to the citation, “ The judges felt that Disunion was a paragon of the post-blogging genre that blended strong writing, deep historical research, and a careful and often poignant attention to the historical actors, both large and small, as the United States fractured itself in the winter of 1860.” Thanks, HNN, and congratulations to my fellow contributors to Disunion. The other award winners were US Intellectual History, for Best Group Blog; Renaissance Mathematicus, for Best Individual Blog: PhD Octopus, for Best New Blog; Mike Dash, “The Emperor’s Electric Chair,” A Blast from the Past, 9 September 2010, for Best Post; and Lapata@Chapati Mystery, for Best Writer.
