NCPH presents the G. Wesley Johnson Award for the best article in The Public Historian for that calendar year. The annual G. Wesley Johnson Award consists of a $750 cash award and a certificate presented to the author(s) of the selected article during the NCPH Annual Meeting. Award winners also receive complimentary registration for the annual meeting and for the awards luncheon.


The National Council on Public History established its annual article prize in 1986 to honor outstanding contributions to the literature of public history. The prize is named for G. Wesley Johnson, founding editor of The Public Historian, and is funded by a generous annual donation from HMS Associates, Inc.

For more information please contact:

Lindsey Reed, Managing Editor
Department of History
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone: 805-893-3667
Fax: 805-893-7522
Email: lreed@history.ucsb.edu


A challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities makes possible our expanding awards program and other uses of earned income on the NCPH endowment. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 
Past Award Winners, 1999-2008
2008-Susan Bachrach, Deadly Medicine

2007-Katharine T. Corbett and Howard S. Miller, A Shared Inquiry into Shared Inquiry

2006-Robert R. Weyeneth, The Architecture of Racial Segregation: The Challenges of Preserving the Problematical Past 

2005-Phyllis Leffler, Peopling the Portholes: National Identity and Maritime Museums in the U.S. and U.K.

2004-Robert T. Hayashi, Transfigured Patterns: Contesting Memories at the Manzanar National Historic Site

2003-Kerry Smith, The Shôwa Hall: Memorializing Japan’s War at Home

2002- Ginetta Candelario, "Black Behind the Ears'"--and Up Front Too? Dominicans in The Black Mosaic

2001-Peter Liebhold, Experiences from the Front Line: Presenting a Controversial Exhibition during the Culture Wars

2000-Charlene Mires, In the Shadow of Independence Hall: Vernacular Activities and the Meanings of Historic Places

1999-Cary Carson, Colonial Williamsburg and the Practice of Interpretive Planning in American History Museums; Giselle Byrnes, Jackals of the Crown? Historians and the Treaty Claims Process in New Zealand
Past Award Winners, 1986-1998
1998-Paul Litt, Pliant Clio and Immutable Texts: The Historiography of a Historical Marking Program

1997-David Glassberg, Public History and the Study of Memory

1996-Steve Lubar, In the Footsteps of Perry: The Smithsonian Goes to Japan

1995-Nigel Worden, Unwrapping history at the Cape Town Waterfront

1994-Hugh Davis Graham, The Stunted Career of Policy History: A Critique and an Agenda

1993-Jeffrey K. Stine, The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway and the Evolution of Cultural Resources Management

1992-James Lindgren, Virginia Needs Living Heroes': Historic Preservation in the Progressive Era

1991-Bruce Craig, Politics in the Pumpkin Patch

1990-Barnes Riznik, Hanalei Bridge: A Catalyst for Rural Preservation

1989-David Garrow, FBI Political Harassment and FBI Historiography: Analyzing Informants and Measuring the Effects

1988-Richard Gillam and Barton Bernstein, Doing Harm: The DES Tragedy and Modern American Medicine

1987-Stephen Mikesell, Historic Preservation That Counts: Quantitative Methods for Evaluating Historic Resources

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