NCPH presents the G. Wesley Johnson Award for the best article in The Public Historian for the 2011 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 at the awards breakfast during the joint NCPH/OAH Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 18-22, 2012. Nominations are made by members of the award selection committee. Award winners receive complimentary registration for the awards breakfast.
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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PDF of 2011 Award Winner “…a sweeping, theoretical, and frankly alarming look at the contentious fight over who ‘controls’ memory….” |
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Past Award Winners
2011-Mary Stevens, Public Policy and the Public Historian: The Changing Place of Historians in Public Life in France and the UK (The Public Historian 32:3, 2010)
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? (The Public Historian 30:4, 2008)
2008-Susan Bachrach, Deadly Medicine (The Public Historian 29:3, 2007)
2007-Katharine T. Corbett and Howard S. Miller, A Shared Inquiry into Shared Inquiry (The Public Historian 28:1, 2006)
2006-Robert R. Weyeneth, The Architecture of Racial Segregation: The Challenges of Preserving the Problematical Past (The Public Historian 27:4, 2005)
2005-Phyllis Leffler, Peopling the Portholes: National Identity and Maritime Museums in the U.S. and U.K. (The Public Historian 26:4, 2004)
2004-Robert T. Hayashi, Transfigured Patterns: Contesting Memories at the Manzanar National Historic Site (The Public Historian 25:4, 2003)
2003-Kerry Smith, The Shรดwa Hall: Memorializing Japan’s War at Home (The Public Historian 24:4, 2002)
2002-Ginetta Candelario, “Black Behind the Ears’”–and Up Front Too? Dominicans in The Black Mosaic (The Public Historian 23:4, 2001)
2001-Peter Liebhold, Experiences from the Front Line: Presenting a Controversial Exhibition during the Culture Wars (The Public Historian 22:3, 2000)
2000-Charlene Mires, In the Shadow of Independence Hall: Vernacular Activities and the Meanings of Historic Places (The Public Historian 21:2, 1999)
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 (The Public Historian 20:3, 1998; The Public Historian 20:2, 1998)
1998-Paul Litt, Pliant Clio and Immutable Texts: The Historiography of a Historical Marking Program (The Public Historian 19:4, 1997)
1997-David Glassberg, Public History and the Study of Memory (The Public Historian 18:2, 1996)
1996-Steve Lubar, In the Footsteps of Perry: The Smithsonian Goes to Japan (The Public Historian 17:3, 1995)
1995-Nigel Worden, Unwrapping History at the Cape Town Waterfront (The Public Historian 16:2, 1994)
1994-Hugh Davis Graham, The Stunted Career of Policy History: A Critique and an Agenda (The Public Historian 15:2, 1993)
1993-Jeffrey K. Stine, The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway and the Evolution of Cultural Resources Management (The Public Historian 14:2, 1992)
1992-James Lindgren, Virginia Needs Living Heroes’: Historic Preservation in the Progressive Era (The Public Historian 13:1, 1991)
1991-Bruce Craig, Politics in the Pumpkin Patch (The Public Historian 12:1, 1990)
1990-Barnes Riznik, Hanalei Bridge: A Catalyst for Rural Preservation (The Public Historian 11:3, 1989)
1989-David Garrow, FBI Political Harassment and FBI Historiography: Analyzing Informants and Measuring the Effects (The Public Historian 10:4, 1988)
1988-Richard Gillam and Barton Bernstein, Doing Harm: The DES Tragedy and Modern American Medicine (The Public Historian 9:1, 1987)
1987-Stephen Mikesell, Historic Preservation That Counts: Quantitative Methods for Evaluating Historic Resources (The Public Historian 8:4, 1986)
First presented in 1986 to Thomas Schlereth, Material Culture Research and Historical Explanation(The Public Historian 7:4, 1985)