Local History Publication Awards
The CAC is now accepting submissions for the 2026 Local History Publication Awards. Works published between Jan. 1, 2025 and Dec. 31, 2025 will be accepted for consideration. All submissions must be postmarked by March 15, 2026 in order to be considered. Please see the Guidelines for Submissions for more information.
2025 Award Winners
The Center for Archival Collections congratulates our 2025 Local History Publication Award winners!
Joseph P. Boyle, Jr.
INDEPENDENT DIVISION | BOOK CATEGORY
Toledo's War, Vol. 1-5 (University of Toledo Press, 2024)

Tedd Long
INDEPENDENT DIVISION | BOOK CATEGORY
The Toledo Papers: Echoes from the Past - A Collection of Letters and Ephemera from Toledo's History (Independently published, 2024)

Rebecca Mancuso, PhD
PROFESSIONAL DIVISION | ARTICLE CATEGORY
"'And Everybody Had a Good Time'?: A History of Hazing at Bowling Green State University, 1920-1955" (Ohio History, Vol. 131, No. 2, Fall 2024)

Timothy Messer-Kruse, PhD
PROFESSIONAL DIVISION | ARTICLE CATEGORY
"Toledo" (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, 2024)

View the complete list of Local History Publication Awards winners since the awards' inception in 1993.
Updated: 07/03/2025 02:21PM