Peter Way wins 2001 Peterson Award

Peter Way, chair of the Department of History, has won the 2001 Harold L. Peterson Award for his article, "Rebellion of the Regulars: Working Soldiers and the Mutiny of 1763-1764." This piece documented a general mutiny in the British army at the end of the Seven Years' War. Way makes the argument that soldiers should be considered workers, and their resistance to army discipline thought of in terms of class struggle, joining labor and military history.

Way has published numerous articles including "Common Laborer: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860," for which he received the 1994 Fredrick Jackson Turner Prize. Way's new project, titled "Artisans of War: Common Soldiers and the Making of the Seven Years' War in America," continues to explore ideas about treating soldiers as workers and the professional army as an industry.

The Harold L. Peterson Award is a prestigious prize honoring the former chief curator of the National Park Service and Chairman of the Board for Eastern National. It is annually awarded to the best article in American military history.