2023 Award Winners | Nomination Forms
Annual Conference 2024 in Heber Springs
Lifetime Achievement Award
Don C. Bragg – for his enduring contributions to Arkansas history, archeology, and ecology
Matthew Rooney (Arkansas Archeological Survey) presenting Don C. Bragg
Lifetime Achievement Award.
Jim Rees (Arkansas Archeological Society) accepting Don C. Bragg Lifetime
Achievement Award on behalf of the family.
Diamond Award
Celia Storey‘s “Old News” column in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Award of Merit
Washington County Historical Association – for its “This Place Matters” campaign to raise awareness of historic properties
Patsy Watkins, Editor accepting award
J. G. Ragsdale Book Award
John A. Kirk – Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912-1956
University of Arkansas Press – publisher of this year’s Ragsdale Book Award
John William Graves Book Award
Edited by Michael Pierce and Calvin White Jr. – for best book-length historical study of the history of African Americans or race in Arkansas Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre
University of Arkansas Press – publisher of this year’s Graves Book Award
J. H. Atkinson Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Arkansas History
Meridith Armstrong – for excellence in the teaching of Arkansas History in Goza Middle School, Arkadelphia
NEARA (Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives)
Joseph Hutchison – for his outstanding contribution to Arkansas history with his essay “Jealousy, Gangs, and Contract Killing: A Revealing Case in the Arkansas Ozarks”
Lucille Westbrook Award
Dr. John A. Kirk and co-authors – for his outstanding contribution to local Arkansas history in his essay “Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: The Arkansas Cases of the Bone Brothers, 1938-1940”
Co-Authors – Armando Arellano, Mikaela Bailey, Charles Bonet, Scott T. Bradshaw, Mary Alice Chambers, Jackelyn R. Cordova-Romano, Jerry Griffin, Jayla Henderson, Jacob Hicks, Caitlin Robertson, Koriatorshia Robinson, Margaret Stone, and Isaac Wolter
Violet B. Gingles Award
Dan Durning – for his outstanding contribution to Arkansas history in his essay “First-and Second-Generation Ethnic Germans on the Little Rock City Council, 1866-1915”
James L. Foster & Billy W. Beason Award
Michael Anthany – for his outstanding contribution to Arkansas history with his dissertation “Otherwise, You Will Have to Suffer the Consequences: The Racial Cleansing of Catcher, Arkansas”
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Susie Pryor Award in Arkansas Women’s History
Hannah Winters – “Safety in the South: Conceptualizing Lesbian Spaces in Arkansas, 1981-1997”
Walter L. Brown Award for Best County or Local Journal
Pulaski County Historical Review
Pulaski County Historical Society, Bob Razer, Editor
Walter L. Brown Award Honorable Mention for next Best County or Local Journal
Flashback
Washington County Historical Society, Patsy Watkins, Editor
Walter L. Brown Award Best Use of Graphics
The Journal
Johnson County Historical Society, Debbie Overbey, Editor
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Article
Guy Lancaster, “Brush Fires: A Chronicle of Murder, Arson, and General Mayhem on Brushy Island in Northern Pulaski County”
Pulaski County Historical Review, Pulaski County Historical Society
Bob Razer accepting award for Guy Lancaster
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Biography, Autobiography, or Memoir
Denele Campbell, “The ‘Otherness’ of Forrestina Bradley Campbell aka White River Red”
Flashback, Washington County Historical Society
Patsy Watkins accepting award for Denele Campbell
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Family History
Mary Cooper Miller, “The Bean Family: Their Influence on Early Arkansas History”
The Independence County Chronicle, Independence County Historical Society
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Church History
Mary Cooper Miller, “Other Church Denominations in Izard County History”
The Izard County Historian, Izard County Historical and Genealogical Society
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Community History
J. B. Hogan, “Fayetteville: Mecca for Writers”
Flashback, Washington County Historical Society
Patsy Watkins accepting award for J. B. Hogan
Walter L. Brown Award for Best School History
Sue Robison, “Parker Elementary School: A Century of Service”
The Journal, Fort Smith Historical Society
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Business History
Wendell Stratton, “Stratton Seed Company: 75 Years of Service to Agriculture”
Historical Bulletin, Grand Prairie Historical Society
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Edited Document
Mark K. Christ, “‘There was a Rebel Spy hung here on Friday’: Little Rock Letters from Harvey R. Frazier, Thirteenth Illinois Cavalry”
Pulaski County Historical Review, Pulaski County Historical Society
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Newsletter
News from the Prairie
Grand Prairie Historical Society, Glen Mosenthin, Editor