"Tactics of Toleration" wins Reformation History Book Prize

A prize-winning dissertation honored by the Friends of the German Historical Institute is now a prize-winning book. The Tactics of Tolerations: A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious Wars by Jesse Spohnholz was awarded the Gerald Strauss Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society at its annual meeting in late October. The Gerald Strauss Prize recognizes the best book on German Reformation history published in English each year. The dissertation from which The Tactics of Toleration grew received the Friends of the GHI's Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize in 2005. The Tactics of Toleration was published by the University of Delaware Press. Jesse Spohnholz is an associate professor of history at Washington State University, where he directs director of The Roots of Contemporary Issues World History Program.