To honor Walter Whitehill, a former editor of the Colonial Society, we award an annual prize of $2,500 and publication in The New England Quarterly for the best essay on a New England topic.

The Announcement for This Year's Prize

THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS
announces the 2006
WALTER MUIR WHITEHILL PRIZE
IN EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY

This prize of two thousand five hundred dollars, established in memory of Walter Muir Whitehill, for many years Editor of Publications for the Colonial Society and the moving force behind the organization, will be awarded for a distinguished essay on colonial history, not previously published, with preference being given to New England subjects.

A committee of members of the Colonial Society will act as judges. Their decision in all cases will be final. The following members have agreed to serve as judges:

Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Emeritus, Harvard University;

Robert Middlekauff, Hotchkiss Professor of U.S. History, University of California, Berkeley;

Edmund Sears Morgan, Sterling Professor Emeritus, History, Yale University.

By arrangement with the editors of The New England Quarterly, the Society will have the winning essay published in an appropriate issue of the journal.

Essays are now being accepted for consideration. The deadline for receiving submissions for the 2005 prize is 31 December 2006. The Society expects to announce the winning candidate in the spring of 2006.

For further information on this prize, letters should be addressed to
Whitehill Prize Committee
c/o Linda Smith Rhoads
Meserve Hall, Second Floor
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115