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Sons of the Republic of Texas Summerfield G. Roberts Award, 2012

Awarded for my annotated translation of Friedrich Armand Strubberg’s 1867 novel, Friedrichsburg, the Colony of the Mainzner Fürstenverein (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012)

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