Mark Boonshoft's article "From Property to Education: Public Schooling, Race, and the Transformation of Suffrage in the in the Early National North," published in the Fall 2021 issue of the Journal of the Early Republic, has received the History of Education Society Prize for (quoting the Society) the "article judged to be the most distinguished scholarly essay in educational history—broadly defined to cover a wide range of educational and cultural institutions inside and outside the United States (this includes work on schools and universities, teachers, students, and families)—published in any journal over the previous two-year period."

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