BOOK PRIZE

Fort Sumter CWRT Presents 2023 Roberts Foundation Award!

Michael G. Laramie

The winner of the 2023 Roberts Foundation Book Award, presented by the Fort Sumter Civil War Round Table, is author Michael G. Laramie for his book, Gunboats, Muskets, and Torpedoes: Coastal South Carolina, 1861-1865. Laramie is a military history writer and the author of eight books, the most recent being The Road to Ticonderoga: The Campaign of 1758 in the Champlain Valley, and Gunboats, Muskets, and Torpedoes. His newest book, King George's War and the Thirty-Year Peace, is scheduled to be relesed this fall. Laramie has also published articles in a number of magazines and journals, inclluding Vermont History, Military History Magazine, Military History Matters, and The Journal of America's Military Past.
He resides with his family in the mountains of sunny Arizona.
Laramie will be presented the book award at the upcoming May 13 Italian Banquet, to be held in the Regimental Commander's Riverview Room in Coward Hall on the the campus of The Citadel. Tickets for the banquet can be purchased at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fort-sumter-civil-war-round-table-italian-banquet-tickets-846051913047?aff=ebdshpsearchautocomplete

Previous Winner

- 2022 -

The Fort Sumter Civil War Round Table presented its inaugural Roberts Foundation Book Award to Anna Koivusalo for her book, The Man Who Started the Civil War: James Chestnut, Honor, and Emotion in the American South. A committee of round table members vetted many books and concluded that Koivusalo's book was the best one published in 2022 on the Civil War in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Much more than a biography of James Chestnut, the book provided a new way of looking at honor in the South. It is an important book that will influence the study of Southern culture and honor for many years to come.

Roberts Foundation Book Award by the Fort Sumter Civil War Round Table

In 2022, the Roberts Foundation (https://roberts.foundation) endowed a book prize to be awarded by the Fort Sumter Civil War Round Table. That prize would be an annual award of $1,000 for the best book written on the Civil War in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. To be considered, a book needed to be nominated or submitted to a selection committee of round table members no later than October 1 of the year in consideration. The recipient and two other finalists would be named by November 3. Recipients of the prize will receive the award and a plaque at a banquet in May.

The Roberts Foundation was founded by William C. Roberts, MD, in December 2018, with a mission to inspire scholarship and achievement in the fields of Health and American Heritage. From 1964 to 1993, Dr. Roberts was Chief of Pathology in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. He has published more than 1,700 articles, authored or edited 31 books, and lectured in over 2,200 cities throughout the world. Since 1993, he has been the executive director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Roberts has been the editor in chief of The American Journal of Cardiology since June 1982. The Roberts Foundation is honored to support the Fort Sumter Civil War Roundtable and its annual book award.