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DES
MOINES, Iowa - Two books were recognized
by the State Historical Society of Iowa today as the
most significant books on Iowa history published in
the preceding year.
The Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award was presented to
Lucy Eldersveld Murphy for her book, A Gathering of
Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western
Great Lakes, 1737-1832 and to Christine Pawley for
her book, Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture
of Print in Late Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa.
The award is named for Benjamin F. Shambaugh, who was
superintendent of the Historical Society for 40 years.
Murphy is assistant professor of history at Ohio
State University-Newark and has written numerous
articles on Indians and Métis as well as on
Midwestern businesswomen. Pawley is assistant
professor in the School of Library and Information
Science at the University of Iowa. For her research on
which Reading on the Middle Border is based,
Pawley has won awards from the American Library
Association and the International Reading Association.
The awards were announced during a special ceremony
at the State Historical Building today as part of the
annual Iowa History Forum.
Also presented were the Throne-Aldrich awards to
recognize the best articles published in the Society's
publications, the Annals of Iowa and Iowa
Heritage Illustrated, during the preceding year.
The award is named in honor of Mildred Throne,
long-time editor of the Iowa Journal of History and
Politics, and Charles Aldrich, founder of the Annals
of Iowa.
Receiving the Throne-Aldrich award for the best
article in Iowa Heritage Illustrated were
Harvey R. Horton, Lowell E. Horton, and Loren N.
Horton for their article, "Attending a One-Room
School in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s," published
in the Fall 2001 issue. The Horton brothers attended
the one-room Brushwood School #5 in Doyle Township in
Clarke County.
Receiving the Throne-Aldrich award for the best
article in the Annals of Iowa was Michael A.
Ross for his article, "Justice for Iowa: Samuel
Freeman Miller's Appointment to the United States
Supreme Court during the Civil War," published in
the Spring 2001 issue. Ross is assistant professor of
history at Loyola University New Orleans. His earlier
article on Samuel Freeman Miller's experiences in
Keokuk prior to his appointment to the U.S. Supreme
Court won the Throne/Aldrich Award in 1998.
Other award -winners were:
* Peter Hoehnle, certificate of recognition, for
his Iowa Heritage Illustrated article,
"Carl Flick and Grant Wood: A Regionalist
Friendship in Amana" (Spring 2001)
* Peter Hoehnle, certificate of recognition, for
his Annals of Iowa article on "Community
in Transition: Amana's Great Change, 1931-1933"
(Winter 2001)
* Katrina M. Sanders, certificate of recognition,
for her Annals of Iowa article, "The
Burlington Self-Survey in Human Relations: Interracial
Efforts for Constructive Community Change,
1949-1951" (Summer 2001)
* Steven Reschly, certificate of recognition, for
his book, The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to
1910.
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