The national Alcohol and Drugs History Society has established an annual book prize in the name of longtime 天美影视传媒 history professor , who died this spring, calling him “a pioneer in the social history of alcohol.”
The will give the each year to the author of a first or second book in English in the history of alcohol and drug studies. The prize is open to “all scholars, independent and university-affiliated, without regard to academic rank.”
Rorabaugh researched and taught American history. He wrote about the rise of American alcohol consumption in the late 1700s and early 1800s in his 1979 book “” and returned to the topic in 2018 with “.” He studied the 1960s and its counterculture movement in his 1990 book “” and “American Hippies,” in 2015.
He was a supporter and past president of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, which was founded in 1979 as the Alcohol and Temperance History Group to “foster exchange among scholars interested in all aspect of past alcohol or drug use or control.”
Rorabaugh also wrote two books about the Kennedy presidency: “” in 2002 and “” in 2009, reassessing the narrative of Theodore White’s popular story of that campaign, “The Making of the President, 1960.”
The society is fundraising to build a $20,000 endowment for the new book prize. Prize-winning books, they said, “will exhibit the high standards of scholarship, superior quality and distinguished contribution to the field that exemplified the work of Bill Rorabaugh.”
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