2021 Award Winners | Nomination Forms
Annual Conference 2020 in Conway
(cancelled)
Lifetime Achievement Award
Bill Gatewood – for his stewardship of one of Arkansas’s most important historic sites, the Old Statehouse
Rex Nelson – for his tireless promotion of Arkansas history through his newspaper column and other means
Pat Ramsey – for her decades of dedication to History Day
J. G. Ragsdale Book Award
Andrew J. Milson – Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834
University of Arkansas Press – publisher of this year’s Ragsdale Book Award
John William Graves Book Award
Guy Lancaster – The Elaine Massacre and Arkansas: A Century of Atrocity and Resistance, 1819-1919
Butler Center Books – publisher of this year’s Graves Book Award
James H. Atkinson Award
Claudine S. James – for excellence in the teaching of Arkansas history in Malvern Middle School, Malvern
Lucille Westbrook Award
Daniel Spillman – for his best manuscript essay on a local Arkansas topic, “Rethinking the Jonesboro Church Wars: Southern Fundamentalism and Arkansas’s Feuding Baptists, 1932-1934”
Violet B. Gingles Award
Jacob T. Huneycutt – for his best manuscript essay on a local Arkansas topic, “‘A Lot of High-combed Roosters:’ Agrarian Populism and the 1901 Split in the Arkansas Baptist State Convention”
Susannah DeBlack Award
James Babb – for best book in Arkansas history for young readers Weary Road
Tom Dillard Advocacy Award
Honorable Linda Chesterfield – in recognition of her advocacy for Arkansas History in the Legislature and Classrooms
James L. Foster & Billy W. Beason Award
Edward N. Andrus – for his outstanding contribution to Arkansas history with his dissertation “The River Gave and the River Hath Taken Away: How the Arkansas River Shaped the Course of Arkansas History”
Award of Merit
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette – for “Pages from the Past,” its digital celebration of the bicentennial of the Arkansas Gazette
Walter L. Brown Award for Best County or Local Journal
The Record
Garland County Historical Society, Liz Robbins, Editor
Walter L. Brown Award Honorable Mention for next Best County or Local Journal
The Pulaski County Historical Review
Pulaski County Historical Society, Bob Razer, Editor
Walter L. Brown Award Best Use of Graphics
The Record
Garland County Historical Society, Liz Robbins, Editor
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Article
Guy Lancaster “Many a Civil Monster: Lynching and the Ku Klux Klan in Hot Springs, 1922”
The Record, Garland County Historical Society
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Biography, Autobiography, or Memoir
H. Glenn Mosenthin “Jess Orval Dockery: Stuttgart’s Pioneering Aviator”
Grand Prairie Historical Bulletin, Grand Prairie Historical Society
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Family History
Amanda Bancroft “The Historic Johnson Farm: Preserving History and Ecology, Part 2”
Flashback, Washington County Historical Society
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Church History
White County Heritage Volume LVII, 2019
White County Heritage, White County Historical Society
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Community History
David Edmark “Fayetteville in the Green Book”
Flashback, Washington County Historical Society
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Business History
Sarah Vestal “Joseph Wysong Vestal’s Horticultural Legacy, Sweet Potatoes to Blueberries”
Pulaski County Historical Review, Pulaski County Historical Society
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Edited Document
Lisa Speer “100 Years Ago: Front-Page Stories from Arkadelphia’s Southern Standard”
Clark County Historical Journal, Clark County Historical Association
Walter L. Brown Award for Best Newsletter
White County Historical Society News, White County Historical Society, Shelly Churchwell, Editor