Previous Winners

The winning entry in each division receives a $300 cash award.

The contest was established to encourage and recognize authors of outstanding publications about northwest Ohio history. For more information about the award or submitting an entry for next year, see the Local History Publication Award. Winners from past years have been:

Year	Division	Author	Publication
2020	Academic Scholar	Joseph Boggs	Prohibition's Proving Ground: Cops, Cars, & Rumrunners in the Toledo-Detroit-Windsor Corridor
2020	Independent Scholar	Tedd Long	Forgotten Visitors: Northwest Ohio's Notable Guests
2020	Independent Scholar	Judy Harris Szor	Sam Szor: Toledo's Mr. Music
2020	Independent Scholar (Honorable Mention)	Galion Historical Society	The Historian 2020 Newsletters
2019	Independent Scholar	Teresa Straley Lambert	Lost Hancock County, Ohio (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2019).
2018	Academic Scholar	Rebecca Mancuso	"The Finger Saga: One Museum's Quest to Turn the Macabre into the Meaningful," The Public Historian 40, no. 2 (May 2018): 23-42.
2018	Independent Scholar	Patricia Beach, Susan Eisel, Maria Nowicki, Judy Szor, Beth White	Caps, Capes, and Caring: The Legacy of Diploma Nursing Schools in Toledo (Toledo, Ohio: The University of Toledo Press, 2018).
2018	Independent Scholar	Jeff Brown, Roger Dickman, Jim Semon, Sr.	Sandusky's Photographer: The Real Photo Postcards of Ernst Niebergall (Sandusky, Ohio: Firelands Postcard Club, 2018).
2017	Academic Scholar (honorable mention)	Katerina Ruedi Ray	"Toledo: Bubbling Up from the Great Black Swamp," Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan, Barelona, Spain: Actar, 2017
2017	Independent Scholar	Daniel Masters	Sherman’s Praetorian Guard: Civil War Letters of John McIntyre Lemmon, 72^nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
2017	Independent Scholar (honorable mention)	Gary L. Franks	Perrysburg’s Hydraulic Canal 1836-1940
2016	Academic Scholar	Kyle Kondik	The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2016
2016	Academic Scholar (honorable mention)	Joshua Casmir Catalano	“President William T. Jerome III: Why Bowling Green State University Remained Open after the Kent State Shootings.” Ohio History 123 (Spring 2016): 51-72.
2016	Independent Scholar	Roger Pickenpaugh	Johnson’s Island: A Prison for Confederate Officers. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2016.
2016	Independent Scholar (honorable mention)	Ben Morales	Hindsight: Northwest Ohio Through the Lens of Time. Toledo, Ohio: The University of Toledo Press
2015	Academic Scholar	Barbara L. Floyd	The Glass City: Toledo and the Industry That Built It. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2015.
2015	Independent Scholar (honorable mention)	Leslie Korenko	Kelleys Island 1877-1884: The fire, the Great Grooves, & a mysterious disappearance. Kelleys Island, Ohio: The Wine Press, 2015
2014	Academic Scholar	Larry Neslon	A Mysterious and Ambiguous Display of Tactics: The Second Siege of fort Meigs July 21-28 1813. Ohio History 120 (2013): 5-28.
2014	Independent Scholar	Perry Bush	Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community took on Big Oil and Won. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012.
2013	No awards presented
2012	Academic Scholar	Barbara L. Floyd	From Institutions to Independence: A History of People with Disabilities in Northwest Ohio. Toledo, Ohio: University of Toledo, 2011
2012	Academic Scholar (honorable mention)	Samir Abu-Absi	Arab Americans in Toledo. Toledo, Ohio: University of Toledo Press, 2010.
2012	Independent Scholar	Lisa Swickard	Calamity and Courage: Tiffin's Battle During Ohio's Deadly 1913 Flood. Melmore, Ohio : Virgin Alley Press, 2010
2012	Independent Scholar (honorable mention)	James Baker	Searching for Lawrence Emmitt. St. Genevieve, MO : James Baker], 2010
2011	Academic Scholar (honorable mention)	George B. Clemans	Chemistry 100: A Centennial History of Chemistry at Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green, Ohio: Department of Chemistry, 2010.
2011	Academic Scholar (honorable mention)	Marilyn Wendler	A Beacon in the Wilderness: A History of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Maumee, Ohio, 1836-2009. Maumee, Ohio: St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 2009.
2011	Academic Scholar	John R. Husman, Susan Husman, and Ken Levin	You Will Do Better in Toledo: From Frogtown to Glass City, A Toledo Retrospective in Postcards, 1893-1929. Toledo, Ohio: The Blade, 2008
2011	Academic Scholar (honorable mention)	Kenneth R. Dickson	Something for Nothing: Gambling in the Glass City, 1910-1952. Fremont, Ohio: Lesher Printing, 2008.
2010	No awards presented
2009	No awards presented
2008	No awards presented
2007	Academic Scholar	David C. Skaggs	Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2006.
2007	Independent Scholar	Kenneth R. Dickson	...Nothing Personal Just Business...:Prohibition and Murder on Toledo's Mean Streets. Fremont, Ohio: Lesher Printing, c2003.
2007	Independent Scholar (honorable mention)	Rita Turnwald	History of Ottoville and Vicinity 1845-2001 Evansville, Indiana ; M.T. Publishing Company, Inc. 2005.
2006	Academic Scholar	Seamus Metross and Molly Schiever, editors	The Irish in Toledo: History and Memory. Toledo, Ohio: Urban Affairs Center, University of Toledo, 2005.
2006	Independent Scholar	C. Robert Boyd	Perrysburg: Historic Architecture Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2005.
2005	Academic Scholar	James C. Marshall	A Promise Kept: A History of the Village of Ottawa Hills. Maumee, Ohio: Woodland Publishing, 2003.
2005	Academic Scholar (honorable mention)	Urban Affairs Center	Discover Downtown Toledo: A Walking Tour. Toledo, Ohio: Urban Affairs Center, University of Toledo, 2005.
2005	Independent Scholar	Kevin B. McCray	A Shouting of Orders: A History of the 99th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. United States: Kevin B. McCray, Distributed by Xlibris, 2003.
2005	Independent Scholar (honorable mention)	John Craig	The Noblest Work of God: The Memoirs of James Lough and John Craig, edited by Peter Aitchison. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005.
2004	Academic Scholar	Glenna Meckstroth	Surviving World War II, Tales of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times. Wooster, Ohio: Wooster Book Company, 2003.
2004	Academic Scholar (honorable mention)	Mary Nassar Breymaier	George Pearson: A Modest Hero. A Story of Toledo's 'East Side Man at the Blade,' Toledo, Ohio: Bihl House Publishing Co., 2002.
2004	Independent Scholar	William Speck	Toledo: A History in Architecture, 1914 to Century's End. Chicago, Illinois: Arcadia Press, 2002.
2004	Independent Scholar (honorable mention)	John Husman	Baseball In Toledo: Images of Baseball. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2003.
2003	Academic Scholar	David C. Skaggs and Larry L. Nelson	The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2001.
2003	Independent Scholar	William Speck	Toledo: A History in Architecture, 1890-1914. Chicago, Illinois: Arcadia Press, 2002.
2002	Academic Scholar	Roger Chapman	It Started with Doctors on Horseback: A History of Medicine Marking the 50th Anniversary of Wood County Hospital. Bowling Green, Ohio: Wood County Genealogical Society, 2001.
2002	Independent Scholar	John O'Brien and Jerry DeBruin with John Husman	Mud Hen Memories. Perrysburg, Ohio: BWD Publications, 2001.
2001	Academic Scholar	Thomas A. Rumer	Unearthing the Land: The Story of Ohio's Scioto Marsh. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 1999.
2001	Independent Scholar	Michael E. Leach	Laborers in the Vineyard: Precious Blood Ministry in Glandorf, Putnam County, Ohio, 1834-1848-1998. Defiance, Ohio: The Hubbard Company, 2000.
2000	Academic Scholar	Relda E. Niederhofer and Ronald L. Stuckey	Edwin Lincoln Moseley (1865-1948), Naturalist, Scientist, Educator. Dexter, Michigan: Thompson-Shore, Inc., 1998.
2000	Independent Scholar	Ted Ligibel	The Toledo Zoo's First 100 Years: A Century of Adventure. Virginia Beach, Virginia: Donning Company, Publishers, 1999.
1999	No awards presented
1998	Academic Scholar	David C. Skaggs and Gerard T. Altoff	A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
1998	Independent Scholar	Melvin L. Murray	Charles Foster: Ohio's Master Politician, "Congress, Contracts, and Calico." Fostoria, Ohio: Murray, 1997.
1997		Ruth Haley	The Story of the Findlay Publishing Company. Findlay, Ohio: Findlay Publishing Company, 1996.
1996		Sally A. Myers	Northwest Ohio Women's Literary Clubs as Arbiters of Culture, 1880-1918. Bowling Green, Ohio: BGSU Dissertation, 1995.
1996		Tricia S. Valentine	Don't Call Us Orphans: An Oral History of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics' National Orphans Home. Tiffin, Ohio: Virgin Alley Press, 1995.
1995		Larry L. Nelson	Cultural Mediation on the Great Lakes Frontier: Alexander McKee and Anglo-American Indian Affairs, 1754-1799. Bowling Green, Ohio: BGSU Dissertation, 1994.
1994		Diane Britton, et al.	A History of the Columbian House. Toledo, Ohio: University of Toledo Press, 1992.
1993		Richard L. Cooley and Kevin M. Maynard	Temple of Justice: The Story of Williams County's Courthouses. Montpelier, Ohio: Williams County Historical Society, 1992.

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