CAC announces winners of the Local History Publication Awards

A lecture series during the Fall 2024 term with the winning authors will be announced at a later date. The Center for Archival Collections (CAC) has announced the winners of the annual Local History Publication Awards.

• Ralph Lindeman - Professional Division, Book Category: Confederates from Canada: John Yates Beall and the Rebel Raids on the Great Lakes (McFarland & Company, Inc., 2023)

• Jack Legg - Independent Division, Book Category: Digging Up Devils: The Search for a Satanic Murder Cult in Rural Ohio (Pimingee Press, 2023)

• Dr. Mary Natvig - Professional Division, Article Category: "Samuel 'Golden Rule' Jones: Music and the Social Good in Progressive Era Toledo, Ohio" (American Music, Spring 2023)

• Alexandra Bevins - Independent Division, Article Category: "The Worthington Project: A Documentary History" (Defiance College, 2023)

A lecture series during the Fall 2024 term with the winning authors will be announced at a later date.

The Local History Publication Awards recognizes authors for outstanding publications in the field of Local History, geographically defined as the nineteen counties within the Center’s collecting scope (Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Hardin, Henry, Huron, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Sandusky, Seneca, Van Wert, Williams, Wood and Wyandot), The Firelands, and Maumee Valley Region.

Works are judged by the Awards Committee on: literary merit, overall significance and contribution to explaining and understanding the history of the above described region. Any work submitted for the awards must have been copyrighted or published in the past year preceding the year in which the award is given.