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Lifetime Achievement Award

     Bob Razer

Diamond Award

     Fort Smith Museum of History

     Arkansas Times

Award of Merit

     National Statuary Hall Steering Committee

     Civilian Conservation Corps at Devil’s Den website

J. G. Ragsdale Book Award

     Kenneth C. Barnes

          Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Strike, 1921-1923
          (University of Arkansas Press)

James H. Atkinson Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Arkansas History

     Rufus Eli Harvell, Dardanelle High School

Lucille Westbrook Award

     Thomas Medford

          “This Is the Only Life We Know: The Land Acquisition Years at Buffalo National River”

Violet B. Gingles Award

     Marie Totten

          “Ben Laney and the Dixiecrats: Southern Revolt and Division in the 1948 Arkansas Democratic Party”

Susannah DeBlack Award

     Darneisha F. Airhart

          Louder & Funnier: Alphonso Trent and his Orchestra
          (Red Engine Press)

NEARA Award

     Charles Ryan Carter

          “The Assassination of Black Pioneer ‘Old Jim’ Hanover and the Struggle for Justice in the Upper White River District”

Tom Dillard Advocacy Award

     Allyn Lord

Susie Pryor Award in Arkansas Women’s History

     John A. Kirk

          “Gender, Race, and Capital Punishment in Arkansas: The Case of Mary Dinwiddie”

Walter L. Brown County and Local Journal Awards

     Best County or Local Journal

          Flashback
          Washington County Historical Society

 

     Honorable Mention

          Historical Bulletin
          Grand Prairie Historical Society

 

     Best Use of Graphics

          Clark County Historical Journal
          Clark County Historical Association

 

     Best Article

          Grace Benton Nelson

               “Life and Times of Meriweather Lewis Randolph: Grandson of Thomas Jefferson and Arkansas’s Last Territorial Secretary”
               Clark County Historical Journal
               Clark County Historical Association

 

     Best Biography, Autobiography, or Memoir

          J. B. Hogan

               “John Rollin Ridge, First Native American Novelist Once Called Fayetteville Home”
               Flashback
               Washington County Historical Society

 

     Best Business History

          Hollis Wayne Duncan

               “The Arlington Hotel Family”
               The Record
               Garland County Historical Society

 

     Best Family History

          Jodi Zaura and Ruth Heins

               “The Gustave & Auguste Hentschel Family”
               The Journal
               Johnson County Historical Society

 

     Best Church History

          Sue Richmond

               “Charlotte Methodist Church”
               The Independence County Chronicle
               Independence County Historical Society

 

     Best School History

          Kenneth Rorie

               “Southside School District: ‘The Southerners'”
               The Independence County Chronicle
               Independence County Historical Society

 

     Best Community History

          Jajuan S. Johnson

               “Dark Hollow: An African American Community in North Little Rock”
               Pulaski County Historical Review
               Pulaski County Historical Society

 

     Best Edited Document

          Glenn Mosenthin

               “Excerpts from the 1809-1810 Scull & Morgan Mercantile Store Ledger”
               Historical Bulletin
               Grand Prairie Historical Society

 

     Best Newsletter

          Historical Society News
          White County Historical Society