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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