{"id":16543,"date":"2017-06-12T13:23:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=16543"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:52:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:52:26","slug":"deborah-gorhams-book-marion-dewar-wins-alison-prentice-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/deborah-gorhams-book-marion-dewar-wins-alison-prentice-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Gorham&#8217;s book on Marion Dewar wins Alison Prentice Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Deborah Gorham&#8217;s book on Marion Dewar wins Alison Prentice Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/MarionDewar_ALifeOfAction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/MarionDewar_ALifeOfAction.jpg\" alt=\"cover of book entitled Marion Dewar: A Life of Action by Deborah Gorham\" class=\"wp-image-15395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/MarionDewar_ALifeOfAction.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/MarionDewar_ALifeOfAction-160x241.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The History Department is pleased to announce that Distinguished Research Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/deborah-s-gorham\/\">Deborah Gorham<\/a> has won the 2017 Alison Prentice Award presented by the Ontario Historical Society for <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/deborah-gorhams-new-book-marion-dewar-featured-ottawa-citizen\/\"><em>Marion Dewar: A Life of Action<\/em><\/a>, a Feminist History Society Book, (Toronto: Second Story Press, 2016). The award honours the best book on women\u2019s history in Ontario, published in the past three years. It was named after Dr. Alison Prentice, a distinguished scholar in the field of Women\u2019s History and Studies in Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ontario Historical Society award ceremony was held the afternoon of Saturday, June 10 in Toronto. For more information about the Ontario Historical Society award, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohistoricalsociety.ca\/index.php\/history\">www.ontariohistoricalsociety.ca\/index.php\/history<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The History Department is pleased to announce that Distinguished Research Professor Deborah Gorham has won the 2017 Alison Prentice Award presented by the Ontario Historical Society for Marion Dewar: A Life of Action, a Feminist History Society Book, (Toronto: Second Story Press, 2016). The award honours the best book on women\u2019s history in Ontario, published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news","category-publications"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16547,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543\/revisions\/16547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}