Dr. Steven High has won the Ontario Historical Society's 2025 Best Scholarly Book Award!

Dr. Steven High has won the Ontario Historical Society's 2025 Best Scholarly Book Award for his book, The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class.

The OHS Book Award recognizes an outstanding scholarly book on the history of Ontario published in the past three years. The adjudication committee wrote the following about Steven's work:

Based on impressive archival research in addition to High’s interviews with many of the key shapers of the Ontario NDP’s economic policy in the 1980s and early 1990s, The Left in Power frankly assesses what the Rae government got right—and wrong—in its response to the deindustrialization of Ontario’s economy amidst an economic recession and the impact of free trade on manufacturing industries in Ontario. High’s personal connection to the topic (he was an activist in the Ontario NDP’s youth wing in the 1980s who, like many New Democrats, became disillusioned with the party during the Rae years) only adds to the book’s urgency. Combining sophisticated analysis with engaging storytelling, The Left in Power will appeal to students and scholars of Ontario history, Canadian political history, and those interested in the global social democratic left.

Congratulations, Steven!!