What’s that cliché saying again… When it rains, it pours? Because that is exactly what is happening right now with UNP awards.

David L. Preston has been selected to receive the 2010 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Research for his book, The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783. The award is given by the New York State Archives for extensive research using the records at the Archives as a Hackman Resident in 1999 and the publication of the book this year.
The Texture of Contact is a landmark study of Iroquois and European communities and coexistence in eastern North America before the American Revolution. Preston details the ways in which these two groups settled on the frontiers creatively and adapted to each other’s presence.

L.M. Hauptman from Choice said “Well-written, thoroughly researched . . . . [Preston's] major contribution is the wonderful descriptions of Indian economic, cultural, and social relations with diverse whites in the Mohawk Valley."