Nine emerging scholars of history from around the world were announced Tuesday as winners of the prestigious Dan David Prize, with each awardee receiving $300,000 to advance their work

The Associated Press

The work never ends for Efthymia Nikita, a prize-winning busy scientist who studies the physical markers of history and even co-wrote a children’s book about it

Theo Panayides

His father was exposed to the chemical Agent Orange as a soldier in the Vietnam War. Today, Bart Elmore is exposing the dark history behind the chemicals.

Shira Makin, Haaretz

Black generosity has always been vital to the freedom struggle

Tyrone McKinley Freeman

Browse and listen to all episodes on History Extra - the official website for BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

HistoryExtra

New focus on history reaffirms importance of field, supports early and midcareer researchers and practitioners

Tel Aviv University

The museums expert explains how every historical artefact has not just one story, but many

Simon Baker, Times Higher Education

The Dan David Prize winner integrates human skeletal data with archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and historical evidence in order to form a more well-rounded view of the past.

Judith Sudilovsky, The Jerusalem Post

We asked philanthropy historian Tyrone Freeman to weigh in on Scott’s approach to donating large sums of money and her emphasis on other forms of generosity.

Tyrone McKinley Freeman, The Conversation

According to Freeman, “HBCUs were always around me, in my blood.”

Marybeth Gasman, Forbes

A woman builds a business empire and then goes on to give away millions of dollars to charity. It’s not an unusual story, at least not today — but if the woman was an African-American during the Jim Crow era?

The NonProfit Times

The Prize has selected nine outstanding scholars and practitioners of history to receive $300,000 each in recognition of breakthrough achievements in the study of the past and to support the winners’ future endeavors

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