Award Winners

We wish to extend our congratulations to the following award-winning authors and titles:

Lisle Rose, author of Power at Sea: The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918; The Breaking Storm, 1919-1945; A Violent Peace, 1946-2006 was awarded the 2007 John Lyman Book Award in the category of U.S. Naval History.

Felicia Londré, author of The Enchanted: Years of the Stage Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870–1930, received the George Freedley Memorial Award presented by the Theatre Library Association. She also won the Jackson County Historical Society's 2008 Education Award.

Harry Haskell, author of Boss-Busters and Sin Hounds: Kansas City and Its Star, was awarded the 2008 Missouri History Book Award from the State Historical Society of Missouri.

Jo-Ann Morgan, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture, received the 2008 Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship from the The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War.

Dennis Brandt, author of From Home Guards to Heroes: The 87th Pennsylvania and Its Civil War Community who was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2007 Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship.

Daniel Pfaff, author of No Ordinary Joe: A Life of Joseph Pulitzer III, has won the 2006 Missouri History Book Award given by the State Historical Society of Missouri.

Tsuyoshi Ishihara, author of Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an American Icon, has won the prestigious 2006 Shimizu Hiroshi Award, given by the Japanese Association for American Studies. The award if given to excellent scholarly books by Japanese Americans under the age of 45.

George Elsey, author of An Unplanned Life: A Memoir, is the winner of the gold medal for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award in the category of autobiography/memoir.

John Paul Russo is the winner of the 2006 Thomas N. Bonner Award for The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society. This award recognizes the best book on the theory and practices of the liberal arts.

James H. Justus (Fetching the Old Southwest), Philip Meyer (The Vanishing Newspaper), and Allen Thiher (Fiction Refracts Science) are all winners of CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005.

Eros, Wisdom and Silence by James M. Rhodes is the winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award in the category of Humanities, and in the subcategory or discipline of Philosophy/Ethics.

Runners-up for the 2004 Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award for the best book  on journalism and mass communication were The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyer and The Weekly War by James Landers.

Searching for Jim by Terrell Dempsey and The Enemy among Us by David Fiedler have received Certificates of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History 60th Annual Award Program.

William E. Foley has been awarded the 2005 Missouri Conference on History Award for Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark. The award is given to the best volume on any historical topic written by a Missouri resident. Foley also won the silver medal in the category of biography  in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award.  

James H. Justus, author of Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet toTwain, has been awarded the 2004 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for literary criticism.

Stephanie Allen, author of A Place Between Stations, was chosen as a finalist for  the The Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award for Debut Fiction. This award is the first national prize presented to published writers of African descent by the national community of Black writers.

The Enemy among Us author David Fiedler has received the Governor's Humanities Book Award for 2004.

Ney Landrum, author of The State Park Movement in America, has been awarded the NARRP's National Recreation Resource Leadership Award.

Walter Schroeder has won the Curator's Award for Scholarly Excellence and the Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State Local History for his book, Opening the Ozarks: A Historical Geography of Missouri Ste. Genevieve District, 1760-1830.

Before They Were Cardinals: Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis by Jon David Cash was chosen as a finalist for the 2003 Seymour Medal given by the Society for American Baseball Research for the best book of baseball history or biography. He joins Jim Giglio, author of Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man , who was a finalist for the 2002 Seymour Medal.

Marlin Shipman, author of "The Penalty Is Death": U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Women's Executions was awarded the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for the best book of research on journalism.

John T. Graham has received the Curators' Award for Scholarly Excellence from the University of Missouri for his three-part study of the thought of Ortega y Gasset: A Pragmatist Philosophy of Life in Ortega y Gasset.; Theory of History in Ortega y Gasset: "The Dawn of Historical Reason"; and The Social Thought of Ortega y Gasset: A Systematic Synthesis in Postmodernism and Interdisciplinarity.

Carl J. Ekberg's François Vallé and His World: Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark has received the prestigious Williams Book Prize, which is offered each year jointly by The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association.

Lift Every Voice and Sing: St. Louis African Americans in the Twentieth Century, author Doris A. Wesley, has been chosen to receive a Year 2003 Distinguished Fine Arts Award from the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. State Celebration Commission of Missouri.

Rob Davidson's Field Observations: Stories has won the 2002 Maria Thomas Fiction Award sponsored by the Peace Corps Writers and Readers organization.

A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne: A Memoir, 1917-1918, A Colonel in the Armored Divisions: A Memoir, 1941-1945, and In the Philippines and Okinawa: A Memoir, 1945-1948, by William S.Triplet, all edited by Robert H. Ferrell, have been awarded the 2002 Distinguished Book Award by the Society for Military History for the best memoir reflecting an outstanding contribution to military history.

Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man by James N. Giglio, is a finalist for the third annual Dave Moore Award, sponsored by Elysian Fields Quarterly, which seeks to honor the author of the "most important book on baseball" published in 2001.

Christopher Phillips, author of Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West, was awarded the Eagleton/Waters Book Award by the State Historical Society of Missouri for the best book published on the political history of Missouri.

The American Folklore Society has awarded Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment through Narrative by Elaine Lawless the 2001 Elli Kongas-Maranda Prize for outstanding work on women's traditional, vernacular, and local culture and/or work on feminist theory and folklore.

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