2008 Awards

• Article Award
  Monica Perales, “Fighting to Stay in Smeltertown:  Lead Contamination and Environmental Justice in a Mexican American Community,”  The Western Historical Quarterly, Spring 2008. The committee found that Monica Perales examination of this Mexican American community’s struggles against industrial encroachment and for environmental justice makes a significant scholarly contribution and that she effectively used oral history to document their struggle.
• Elizabeth B. Mason Small Project Award
  “In Our Own Words – the Negro Spirituals Heritage Keepers”
  The committee found the project exemplary in its adherence to OHA guidelines and standards, and an excellent example of a university and community partnership. It was impressed by the effort to recruit interviewers less than forty years of age to involve different generations in the project, the highly successful community event held to showcase the project, and by the project’s potential to provide invaluable documentation for a scholarly book on the heritage keepers and the tradition of Negro spirituals in the western United States.  Scholars, choral directors, and artists will benefit from this collection, which will be available at universities, libraries, and other cultural institutions.
  AND
  “Oral History Project of Mexican American Community Builders in San Jose, California, 1960-2000″ Francisco Jimémez, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Santa Clara University The committee was deeply impressed by the high quality of the project; the inclusion of students from the beginning; how the project advances, in the context of each narrator’s life, the motivations, experiences, and activities that led everyday people to pursue social justice and social change on behalf of the Mexican American community; and by the wealth of information it can provide for scholars of the Chicana/o Movement, labor history (particularly those of the UFW), and an array of educational, civic and political struggles.
• Elizabeth B. Mason Major Project Award
  Muskie Oral History Project, The Edmund S. Muskie and Special Collections Library. The committee was deeply impressed by the quality of the oral history interviews, which humanize the subject and allow this period of history to unfold naturally; the attention to detail from project conceptualization through accessibility, especially through the web based database; the inclusion of a “how-to” manual that provides avenues to programmatic consistency; and the creativity, efficiency, and high standards of this important project.  In sum, the committee considered the project a model for other Congressional collections and Centers to emulate.
• Elizabeth B. Mason Major Project Award – Honorable Mention
  The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project. The committee was deeply impressed by the superb conceptualization, planning, and execution; the exceptional use of library and digital resources; and the interdisciplinary emphasis in documenting forty years of Cold War Nuclear Weapons Testing.  This project provides an outstanding model for the use of oral history.
• Postsecondary Teaching Award
  Barry Lanman and Laura Wendling. The nominees numerous achievements, authors of Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians:  An Anthology of Oral History Education, conference presentations, and leadership as founder and current director of the international Consortium of Oral History Educators, are just a few of the reasons for their selection for the Post Secondary Teaching Award.

2007 Awards

• Book Award
  Kim Lacy Rogers, Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence, Resilience, and Social Change. New York: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2006.
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Charla Helmers, Dundalk Elementary School, Baltimore, Maryland
• Non-print Media Award
  “Good Work, Sister! Women Shipyard Workers of World War II: An Oral History” produced by The Northwest Women’s History Project, http://www.goodworksister.org/

2006 Awards

• Article Award
  Elliott R. Barkan, “American in the Hand, Homeland in the Heart: Transnational and Translocal Immigrant Experience in the American West.” The Western Historical Quarterly, Autumn, 2004.
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award
  “The Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project”
  National Park Service
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award
  ‘The Oral Histories of the Taylor Family and Residence”
  by Jon Hunner
• Postsecondary Teaching Award
  Kimberly Heikkila
• Postsecondary Teaching Award
  Erin McCarthy

2005 Awards

• Book Award
  Alessandro Portelli, The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
• Book Award
  Eva Tulene Watt and Keith Basso, Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860 – 1975. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2004.
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Kenneth Woodard, Connelly School of the Holy Child, Potomac, Maryland
• Non-print Media Award
  “Leonard Bernstein: An American Life” by Steve Rowland
• Non-print Media Award
  “Born and Raised in Tobacco Fields: Portrait of a Changing American Landscape,” produced by Carrie Nobel Kline, Adam Nordell and Michael Nobel Kline

2004 Awards

• Article Award
  Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, “‘That’s MY Place!’: Negotiating Racial, Sexual, and Gender Politics in San Francisco’s Gay Latino Alliance, 1975-1983,” Journal of the History of Sexuality (April 2003): 224-58.
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award
  “The Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Oral History Project,”
  Kentucky Oral History Commission

2003 Awards

• Book Award
  Catherine Fosl, Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
• Book Award
  Matt Garcia, A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles. University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Michael Barker, Johanna Perrin Middle School
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Elizabeth Hoffman, Johanna Perrin Middle School
• Non-print Award
  “Down an Old Road: The Poetic Life of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel” by Chris Simon
• Non-print Award
  “Under One Sky” University of Nevada Oral History Program

2002 Awards

• Article Award
  Pamela Grundy, “From Amazons to Glamazons: The Rise and Fall of North Carolina Women’s Basketball, 1920 – 1960,” The Journal of American History, June 2002.
• Postsecondary Teaching
  A. Glenn Crothers, Indiana University Southeast
• Project Award
  “Agincourt: A Community History, Multicultural History Society of Ontario,”  Scarborough Historical Museum, City of Toronto
• Project Award
  “Growing Up in Washington,” The Historical Society of Washington, DC

2001 Awards

• Book Award
  Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. Duke University Press, 2000.
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Richard Williams, Plum Borough Senior High School
• Non-print Award
  “Jazz: A Milwaukee History” A Radio Docudrama

2000 Awards

• Article Award
  Andrew Wiese, “The Other Suburbanites: African American Suburbanization in the North Before 1950,” The Journal of American History (March 1999): 1945-1254.
• Project Award
  “Life Histories of Three Generations of Inuit Women”, Nancy Wachowich
• Project Award
  “The Lonaconing Silk Mill, 1907-1957″, Allegany High School

1999 Awards

• Book Award
  Central Avenue Sounds Editorial Committee, Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles. University of California Press, 1998.
• Pre Collegiate Teaching
  Linda Wood
  Oral History Classroom Projects
  Hope Valley, RI 02832
• Nonprint Media
  “I Can Almost See the Lights of Home” produced by Charles Hardy III and Alessandro Portelli, The Journal for Multimedia History, 1999.  http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol2no1/v2.html

1998 Awards

• Article Award
  Sherrie Tucker, “Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band,” Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, 1997
• Post Secondary Teaching
  The American Mosaic Project of Dickinson College
  Susan D. Rose, Charles Barone, Sharon O’Brien
• Project
  “Equality of Opportunity: The Making of the Americans with Disabilities Act,” National Rehabilitation Hospital Research Center

1997 Awards

• Book
  Charles L. Perdue Jr. and Nancy J. Martin-Perdue, Talk About Trouble: A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression. University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
• Pre Collegiate Teaching
  Glenn E. Whitman
  Blair Academy
  Blairstown, New Jersey
• Nonprint Media
  “Will the Circle be Unbroken?” by the Southern Regional Council

1996 Awards

• Article Award
  Alexander Freund and Laura Quilici, “Exploring Myths in Women’s Narratives: Italian and German Immigrant Women in Vancouver, 1947-1961″ BC Studies (Spring/Summer 1995): 159-182.
• Post Secondary Teaching
  Walter Bennett
  University of North Carolina Law School
• Project
  “Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South” by the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University.

1995 Awards

• Book Award
  Michael Frisch and Milton Rogovin, Portraits in Steel. Cornell University Press, 1993.
• Precollegiate Teaching Award
  Michael Brooks
  Suva Intermediate School
  Bell Gardens, California
• Nonprint Media
  “The Uprising of ‘34,” George Stoney and Judith Helfand, codirectors and coproducers; Vera Rony, executive producer.