CAC announces winners of the Local History Publication Awards

The Center for Archival Collections (CAC) has announced the winners of the annual Local History Publication Awards. Each winning author will give a lecture about their publications. Those dates and locations have been listed below.

• Alexandra Bevins - Independent Division, Article Category: "The Worthington Project: A Documentary History" (Defiance College, 2023)
  • Lecture: Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 4:15 p.m.
    • Jerome Library, Pallister Conference Room

• Jack Legg - Independent Division, Book Category: Digging Up Devils: The Search for a Satanic Murder Culty in Rural Ohio (Pimingee Press, 2023)
  • Lecture: Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 3:30 p.m.
    • Jerome Library, Pallister Conference Room

• Ralph Lindeman - Professional Division, Book Category: Confederates from Canada: John Yates Beall and the Rebel Raids on the Great Lakes (McFarland & Company, Inc., 2023)
  • Lecture: Thursday, Oct. 31 at 3:30 p.m. 
    • Zoom. Please register to attend.

• Dr. Mary Natvig - Professional Division, Article Category: "Samuel 'Golden Rule' Jones: Music and the Social Good in Progressive Era Toledo, Ohio" (American Music, Spring 2023)
  • Lecture: Thursday, Nov. 7 at 3:30 p.m.
    • Jerome Library, Pallister Conference Room    

The Local History Publication Awards recognizes authors for outstanding publications in the field of Local History, geographically defined as the nineteen counties within the Center’s collecting scope (Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Hardin, Henry, Huron, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Sandusky, Seneca, Van Wert, Williams, Wood and Wyandot), The Firelands, and Maumee Valley Region.

Works are judged by the Awards Committee on: literary merit, overall significance and contribution to explaining and understanding the history of the above described region. Any work submitted for the awards must have been copyrighted or published in the past year preceding the year in which the award is given.