Please note - 

• For in-person attendance, please buy tickets at the Main Library or the Barrow Bookstore. You do not need to register.  
• For free virtual attendance on Zoom, please click on the link below at 7:00 p.m. , October 15, 2022.
  

Miller Award Event Zoom Link

When: Oct 15, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82168673150?pwd=ZExLbi9UaFpzYjNYelBXOXdndVJKQT09

Passcode: 525735

The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library's Miller Award Committee presents 2022 Ruth Ratner Miller Memorial Award for Excellence in American History WINNER Professor Sean Wilentz.

Join us to honor the 2022 Ruth Ratner Miller Award for Excellence in American History Winner, Dr. Sean Wilentz, professor of American History at Princeton University. Professor Wilentz will be introduced by Professor Maya Jasanoff. The introduction will be pre-recorded.

The Ruth Ratner Miller Memorial Award for Excellence in American History was established in 1998 by Richard Miller, and is sponsored by her four children, to honor the life of their mother, Ruth Ratner Miller. It has been presented by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library since 2001.

Dr. Ruth Ratner Miller (1925-1996) believed passionately that understanding history was not merely desirable but a civic and religious duty. To that end, she was an original member of the Holocaust Commission and a founding trustee of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. After raising four children, she returned to Case Western Reserve University and earned a Ph.D. in Education. She went on to serve as Health Director and Director of Community Development for the City of Cleveland in the late 1970s and then became President of Tower City Center, the developer that renovated Cleveland’s Terminal Tower, marking the beginning of that city’s renaissance. She also served as trustee of Cleveland State University. Her many acts of public and private charity prompted some to refer to her as “Tikkun Olam,” Hebrew for “Repairer of the World.” 

Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University. His primary research interests include U.S. social and political history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written numerous award-winning books and articles including, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, which was honored with the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His writings on American music have earned him two Grammy nominations and two Deems-Taylor-ASCAP awards. Professor Wilentz is currently at work on The Triumph of American Antislavery, a companion volume to The Rise of American Democracy, which will offer a comprehensive political history of the antislavery movement from its seventeenth-century origins to the eradication of slavery in 1865.

Tickets for this in-person event are $15 ($5 for students). They can be purchased (cash or check only) at the Barrow Bookstore or (using cash, check or PayPal) at the Main Library's circulation desk. Tickets will be available on October 1.

To receive the link to attend the event virtually, please register below. While the virtual event link is free, a donation to the Friends is always appreciated! Please note that by providing your email address below, you agree that your contact information will be shared with the event sponsor, the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, Inc.