Past Winners

2022 Winner

Wilfred M. McClay

Acclaimed Scholar, Historian, and Author

Wilfred M. McClay is the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College. He was formerly the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma. His most recent book is Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (Encounter, 2019). His book The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (1994) won the Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American intellectual history. Among his other books are The Student’s Guide to U.S. History, Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America, Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past, and Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Public Life in Modern America. He was educated at St. John’s College (Annapolis) and received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1987.

  

 
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