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. Nominations are made by members of the award selection committee. Award winners also receive complimentary registration 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.
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Lindsey Reed, Managing Editor
The Public Historian
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Past Award Winners
2010-Lisa DiCaprio, The Betrayal of Srebrenica: The Ten-Year Commemoration (The Public Historian 31:3, 2009)
2009-Cary Carson, The End of History Museums: What is Plan B?
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
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
First presented in 1986 to Thomas Schlereth, Material Culture Research and Historical Explanation