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.

Year	Category	Division	Author	Publication
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, 72^nd 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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