Awards and Achievements, THS Members

¡J Z -¿ 1 — J-. — 3 Awards andAchievements, THSMembers Allen C. Guelzo, Dean at The Templeton Honors College at Eastern College, has been awarded the 2000 Lincoln Prize for his book, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, jointly with Runaway Slaves: Rebeh on the Plantation, by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninge. Second prize was awarded to Michael F. Holt for The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: facksoman Polities and the Onset of the Civil War. The Lincoln Prize, now in its tenth year, is one of the most prestigious awards in American historical writing. Dr. Guelzo will be speaking at the Owen Lovejoy Society annual symposium on March 18, in Princeton, Illinois, on "Fiends. . .Facing Zionwards: Abraham Lincoln's Reluctant Embrace of the Abolitionists ." Hc will also be the lead-off speaker at this year's Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, June 26—July 3, 2000. J. Tracy Power, a historian with the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, won four literary awards in 1999 for his book he's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginiafrom the Wilderness to Appomattox (University of North Carolina Press, 1998): Second Place in the 1999 Lincoln Prize, given annually by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College; the 1998 Jefferson Davis Award, given by the Museum of the Confederacy; the 1998 Richard Barksdale Harwell Award, given by the Atlanta Civil War Round Table; and the 1999 Jerry Coffey Memorial Book Award, given by the Grad)· McWhiney Research Foundation. He was also awarded a 1 999 Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship by the Virginia Historical Society for work on a biography in progress of George Washington Custis Lee (1832-1913), the eldest son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Custis. John Allphm Moore was Senior Fulbright Lecturer/Scholar in Finland throughout the winter and spring of 1999. During this time he completed his book, coauthored with Jerry Pubantz, G? Create a New World? American Presidents and the United Nations (Peter Lang Publishers, 1999). Jonathan Bean of Southern Illinois University was promoted to associate professor in the fall of 1 999. Dr. Charles W. Miller, Tucson, Arizona, was listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World, both for the first time, in 1999. Lee Congdon of James Madison University was awarded the Order of Merit, small cross, on September 22, 1999, by the Republic of Hungary. The ceremony took place in the Parliament building, Budapest, with President Arpad Goncz presiding. Mark R. Shulman graduated from Columbia Law School in May 1999 and received the David M. Berger Prize for Excellence in International Law. He joined the law firm of Dcbevoise & Plimpton and recently has been appointed lecturer in law at Columbia Law School. Stanley Sandler was awarded the Conquest Chair in History, Virginia Militar)- Institute, for 1999/2000. Professor Thomas Albert Howard of Gordon College in Wénham, Massachusetts has received a one-year research fellowship from the Pew Evangelical Scholars Program, 1999/2000. Professor Richard O. Davics was named a Distinguished University Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a specialist in twentiethcentury American history and the history of sports. In May 1999, Professor Samuel J. Thomas was awarded a Michigan State University Intramural Research Grant (520,000) for research on: Hold that Tiger: The Tamman)- Graphic Image in the Gilded Age, a reproduction and analysis of political cartoonists' depictions of the tiger and related images as symbols of Tammany Hall. Wayne E. Boese, Ph.D., was awarded the Brenton S. Halse)· Teaching Excellence Award by the Virginia Historical Society on April 24, 1999. Chosen from among public and private school nominees, Dr. Boese, a teacher of history at St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia, was selected as this year's outstanding Virginia secondar)· school teacher. Professor Malcom Muir, Jr., was honored as the recipient ot the 1999 Larry Rovvcn Renielc Award, given for service to the Northern Great Plains History Conference. Since [985, he has organized 105 panels tor the Society for Military History at that meeting, and served as the SMH representative on the governor's council of the conference. Maureen Murphy Nutting of North Seattle Community...