2007 Award Winners

Annual Conference

in Little Rock                                     

Lifetime Achievement Award - C. Calvin Smith

Lifetime Achievement Award - Helen Holley receiving for her father Donald Holley

J. G. Ragsdale Book Award - Kathleen DuVal
The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent

J. H. Atkinson Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Arkansas History - Margaret Grimes
Bob Courtway Middle School, Conway

Lucille Westbrook Award - Anna Gentile and Nancy Gilien
"The Introduction of Public Health Nursing to Pope County, Arkansas:
The Pioneering Work of Celeste Campbell, Red Cross Public Health Nurse"

Violet B. Gingles Award - Sondra Gordy
"Through a Heroine's Eyes"

Walter L. Brown Award for Best County or Local Journal - Flashback
Gretchen Gearhart receiving award for
Washington County Historical Society

Walter L. Brown Award Honorable Mention for next Best County or Local Journal - The Independence County Chronicle
George Lankford receiving award for The Independence County Chronicle
Independence County Historical Society

Walter L. Brown Award Best Use of Graphics - The Journal
Billy Higgins and Tom Wing receiving award for The Journal
Fort Smith Historical Society

Walter L. Brown Award for Best Family History - Nancy Britton
"Not for Gold Alone: The Moore-Williams Wagon Train of 1853"
The Independence County Chronicle
Independence County Historical Society

Other Winners (no pictures)

Walter L. Brown Award for Best Article - Bradley Kidder, Sr.
"Who Took the Trees?"
The Journal
Fort Smith Historical Society

Walter L. Brown Award for Best Biography, Autobiography, or Memoir - Shirley Abbott
"Mamie Phipps Clark, a Hot Springs Woman Who 'overcame the odds'"
The Record
Garland County Historical Society

Walter L. Brown Award for Best Community History - Joshua Robles
"Amity's Lost Black Community"
Clark County Historical Journal
Clark County Historical Association

Walter L. Brown Award for Best School History - Andrew Price Brill
"Three Women Speak: Integration of Fayetteville High School"
Flashback
Washington County Historical Society

Walter L. Brown Award for Best Business History - Sharon Shugart
"The 'Lost' Bathhouse: The Story of the Imperial Bathhouse"
The Record
Garland County Historical Society

Walter L. Brown Award for Best Edited Documents - Carolyn Duty Banks
"The Letters of W. H. Crow"
Flashback
Washington County Historical Society

Susie Pryor Award in Arkansas Women's History - Lindley C. Shedd
"Effiegene Locke Wingo: Arkansas's Second Congresswoman, 1930-1933"