Previous Winners
The Local History Publication Awards were established to encourage and recognize authors of outstanding publications about northwest Ohio history. Learn more information about the Local History Publication Awards.
| Publication Year | Category | Division | Author | Publication |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Book | Independent | Joseph P. Boyle, Jr. | Toledo's War, Vol. 1-5 (University of Toledo Press, 2024) |
| 2024 | Book | Independent | Tedd Long | The Toledo Papers: Echoes from the Past - A Collection of Letters and Ephemera from Toledo's History (Independently published, 2024) |
| 2024 | Article | Professional | Rebecca Mancuso, PhD | "'And Everybody Had a Good Time'?: A History of Hazing at Bowling Green State University, 1920-1955" (Ohio History, Vol. 131, No. 2, Fall 2024) |
| 2024 | Article | Professional | Timothy Messer-Kruse, PhD | "Toledo" (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, 2024) |
| 2023 | Book | Professional | Ralph Lindeman | Confederates from Canada: John Yates Beall and the Rebel Raids on the Great Lakes (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2023) |
| 2023 | Article | Professional | Mary Natvig | "Samuel 'Golden Rule' Jones: Music and the Social Good in Progressive Era Toledo, Ohio" (American Music (Spring 2023): 82-115) |
| 2023 | Book | Independent | Jack Legg | Digging Up Devils: The Search for a Satanic Murder Cult in Rural Ohio (Pimingee Press, 2023) |
| 2023 | Article | Independent | Alexandra Bevins | "The Worthington Project: A Documentary History" (Defiance College, 2023) |
| 2022 | Book | Professional | Barbara L. Floyd | An Institution for the Promoting of Knowledge: The University of Toledo at 150 |
| 2022 | Book | Independent | John W. Kropf | Color Capital of the World: Growing Up with the Legacy of a Crayon Company |
| 2022 | Article | Independent | Emily Rinaman | "Let's Band Together" Seneca Strolls, August 2022 |
| 2021 | Book | Professional | Michael E. Brooks and Bob Fitrakis | A History of Hate in Ohio: Then and Now |
| 2021 | Article | Professional | Perry Bush | "We Have Them Whipped Here: Lynching and the Rule of Law in Lima, Ohio" Ohio History Fall 2021 |
| 2021 | Article | Independent | Kasandra Fager | "Farmers, Crop Yields, and Urbanization: the Growth of Section 13 in Plain Township, Ohio 1820-2020" Northwest Ohio History Fall/Winter 2021-22 |
| 2020 | Academic Scholar | Joseph Boggs | Prohibition's Proving Ground: Cops, Cars, & Rumrunners in the Toledo-Detroit-Windsor Corridor | |
| 2020 | Independent Scholar | Tedd Long | Forgotten Visitors: Northwest Ohio's Notable Guests | |
| 2020 | Independent Scholar | Judy Harris Szor | Sam Szor: Toledo's Mr. Music | |
| 2020 | Independent Scholar (Honorable Mention) | Galion Historical Society | The Historian 2020 Newsletters | |
| 2019 | Independent Scholar | Teresa Straley Lambert | Lost Hancock County, Ohio (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2019). | |
| 2018 | Academic Scholar | Rebecca Mancuso | "The Finger Saga: One Museum's Quest to Turn the Macabre into the Meaningful," The Public Historian 40, no. 2 (May 2018): 23-42. | |
| 2018 | Independent Scholar | Patricia Beach, Susan Eisel, Maria Nowicki, Judy Szor, Beth White | Caps, Capes, and Caring: The Legacy of Diploma Nursing Schools in Toledo (Toledo, Ohio: The University of Toledo Press, 2018). | |
| 2018 | Independent Scholar | Jeff Brown, Roger Dickman, Jim Semon, Sr. | Sandusky's Photographer: The Real Photo Postcards of Ernst Niebergall (Sandusky, Ohio: Firelands Postcard Club, 2018). | |
| 2017 | Academic Scholar (honorable mention) | Katerina Ruedi Ray | "Toledo: Bubbling Up from the Great Black Swamp," Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan, Barelona, Spain: Actar, 2017 | |
| 2017 | Independent Scholar | Daniel Masters | Sherman’s Praetorian Guard: Civil War Letters of John McIntyre Lemmon, 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry | |
| 2017 | Independent Scholar (honorable mention) | Gary L. Franks | Perrysburg’s Hydraulic Canal 1836-1940 | |
| 2016 | Academic Scholar | Kyle Kondik | The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2016 | |
| 2016 | Academic Scholar (honorable mention) | Joshua Casmir Catalano | “President William T. Jerome III: Why Bowling Green State University Remained Open after the Kent State Shootings.” Ohio History 123 (Spring 2016): 51-72. | |
| 2016 | Independent Scholar | Roger Pickenpaugh | Johnson’s Island: A Prison for Confederate Officers. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2016. | |
| 2016 | Independent Scholar (honorable mention) | Ben Morales | Hindsight: Northwest Ohio Through the Lens of Time. Toledo, Ohio: The University of Toledo Press | |
| 2015 | Academic Scholar | Barbara L. Floyd | The Glass City: Toledo and the Industry That Built It. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2015. | |
| 2015 | Independent Scholar (honorable mention) | Leslie Korenko | Kelleys Island 1877-1884: The fire, the Great Grooves, & a mysterious disappearance. Kelleys Island, Ohio: The Wine Press, 2015 | |
| 2014 | Academic Scholar | Larry Neslon | A Mysterious and Ambiguous Display of Tactics: The Second Siege of fort Meigs July 21-28 1813. Ohio History 120 (2013): 5-28. | |
| 2014 | Independent Scholar | Perry Bush | Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community took on Big Oil and Won. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012. | |
| 2013 | No awards presented | |||
| 2012 | Academic Scholar | Barbara L. Floyd | From Institutions to Independence: A History of People with Disabilities in Northwest Ohio. Toledo, Ohio: University of Toledo, 2011 | |
| 2012 | Academic Scholar (honorable mention) | Samir Abu-Absi | Arab Americans in Toledo. Toledo, Ohio: University of Toledo Press, 2010. | |
| 2012 | Independent Scholar | Lisa Swickard | Calamity and Courage: Tiffin's Battle During Ohio's Deadly 1913 Flood. Melmore, Ohio : Virgin Alley Press, 2010 | |
| 2012 | Independent Scholar (honorable mention) | James Baker | Searching for Lawrence Emmitt. St. Genevieve, MO : James Baker], 2010 | |
| 2011 | Academic Scholar (honorable mention) | George B. Clemans | Chemistry 100: A Centennial History of Chemistry at Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green, Ohio: Department of Chemistry, 2010. | |
| 2011 | Academic Scholar (honorable mention) | Marilyn Wendler | A Beacon in the Wilderness: A History of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Maumee, Ohio, 1836-2009. Maumee, Ohio: St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 2009. | |
| 2011 | Academic Scholar | John R. Husman, Susan Husman, and Ken Levin | You Will Do Better in Toledo: From Frogtown to Glass City, A Toledo Retrospective in Postcards, 1893-1929. Toledo, Ohio: The Blade, 2008 | |
| 2011 | Academic Scholar (honorable mention) | Kenneth R. Dickson | Something for Nothing: Gambling in the Glass City, 1910-1952. Fremont, Ohio: Lesher Printing, 2008. | |
| 2010 | No awards presented | |||
| 2009 | No awards presented | |||
| 2008 | No awards presented | |||
| 2007 | Academic Scholar | David C. Skaggs | Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2006. | |
| 2007 | Independent Scholar | Kenneth R. Dickson | ...Nothing Personal Just Business...:Prohibition and Murder on Toledo's Mean Streets. Fremont, Ohio: Lesher Printing, c2003. | |
| 2007 | Independent Scholar (honorable mention) | Rita Turnwald | History of Ottoville and Vicinity 1845-2001 Evansville, Indiana ; M.T. Publishing Company, Inc. 2005. | |
| 2006 | Academic Scholar | Seamus Metross and Molly Schiever, editors | The Irish in Toledo: History and Memory. Toledo, Ohio: Urban Affairs Center, University of Toledo, 2005. | |
| 2006 | Independent Scholar | C. Robert Boyd | Perrysburg: Historic Architecture Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2005. | |
| 2005 | Academic Scholar | James C. Marshall | A Promise Kept: A History of the Village of Ottawa Hills. Maumee, Ohio: Woodland Publishing, 2003. | |
| 2005 | Academic Scholar (honorable mention) | Urban Affairs Center | Discover Downtown Toledo: A Walking Tour. Toledo, Ohio: Urban Affairs Center, University of Toledo, 2005. | |
| 2005 | Independent Scholar | Kevin B. McCray | A Shouting of Orders: A History of the 99th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. United States: Kevin B. McCray, Distributed by Xlibris, 2003. | |
| 2005 | Independent Scholar (honorable mention) | John Craig | The Noblest Work of God: The Memoirs of James Lough and John Craig, edited by Peter Aitchison. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005. | |
| 2004 | Academic Scholar | Glenna Meckstroth | Surviving World War II, Tales of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times. Wooster, Ohio: Wooster Book Company, 2003. | |
| 2004 | Academic Scholar (honorable mention) | Mary Nassar Breymaier | George Pearson: A Modest Hero. A Story of Toledo's 'East Side Man at the Blade,' Toledo, Ohio: Bihl House Publishing Co., 2002. | |
| 2004 | Independent Scholar | William Speck | Toledo: A History in Architecture, 1914 to Century's End. Chicago, Illinois: Arcadia Press, 2002. | |
| 2004 | Independent Scholar (honorable mention) | John Husman | Baseball In Toledo: Images of Baseball. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2003. | |
| 2003 | Academic Scholar | David C. Skaggs and Larry L. Nelson | The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2001. | |
| 2003 | Independent Scholar | William Speck | Toledo: A History in Architecture, 1890-1914. Chicago, Illinois: Arcadia Press, 2002. | |
| 2002 | Academic Scholar | Roger Chapman | It Started with Doctors on Horseback: A History of Medicine Marking the 50th Anniversary of Wood County Hospital. Bowling Green, Ohio: Wood County Genealogical Society, 2001. | |
| 2002 | Independent Scholar | John O'Brien and Jerry DeBruin with John Husman | Mud Hen Memories. Perrysburg, Ohio: BWD Publications, 2001. | |
| 2001 | Academic Scholar | Thomas A. Rumer | Unearthing the Land: The Story of Ohio's Scioto Marsh. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 1999. | |
| 2001 | Independent Scholar | Michael E. Leach | Laborers in the Vineyard: Precious Blood Ministry in Glandorf, Putnam County, Ohio, 1834-1848-1998. Defiance, Ohio: The Hubbard Company, 2000. | |
| 2000 | Academic Scholar | Relda E. Niederhofer and Ronald L. Stuckey | Edwin Lincoln Moseley (1865-1948), Naturalist, Scientist, Educator. Dexter, Michigan: Thompson-Shore, Inc., 1998. | |
| 2000 | Independent Scholar | Ted Ligibel | The Toledo Zoo's First 100 Years: A Century of Adventure. Virginia Beach, Virginia: Donning Company, Publishers, 1999. | |
| 1999 | No awards presented | |||
| 1998 | Academic Scholar | David C. Skaggs and Gerard T. Altoff | A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1997. | |
| 1998 | Independent Scholar | Melvin L. Murray | Charles Foster: Ohio's Master Politician, "Congress, Contracts, and Calico." Fostoria, Ohio: Murray, 1997. | |
| 1997 | Ruth Haley | The Story of the Findlay Publishing Company. Findlay, Ohio: Findlay Publishing Company, 1996. | ||
| 1996 | Sally A. Myers | Northwest Ohio Women's Literary Clubs as Arbiters of Culture, 1880-1918. Bowling Green, Ohio: BGSU Dissertation, 1995. | ||
| 1996 | Tricia S. Valentine | Don't Call Us Orphans: An Oral History of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics' National Orphans Home. Tiffin, Ohio: Virgin Alley Press, 1995. | ||
| 1995 | Larry L. Nelson | Cultural Mediation on the Great Lakes Frontier: Alexander McKee and Anglo-American Indian Affairs, 1754-1799. Bowling Green, Ohio: BGSU Dissertation, 1994. | ||
| 1994 | Diane Britton, et al. | A History of the Columbian House. Toledo, Ohio: University of Toledo Press, 1992. | ||
| 1993 | Richard L. Cooley and Kevin M. Maynard | Temple of Justice: The Story of Williams County's Courthouses. Montpelier, Ohio: Williams County Historical Society, 1992. | ||
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