TRENTON, NJ – The Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission, in partnership with the Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Studies Academic Alliance, announces Dr. Jean Soderlund as the winner of the 2023 Richard P. McCormick Prize for her book Separate Paths: Lenapes and Colonists in West Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ.
This award-winning book dives into the history of West Jersey in the 1600s and the ways in which Lenape men and women navigated relations with the Swedes and Finns versus the incoming Quakers. While Swedish and Finnish settlers allied with Lenape tribes to defend themse