News and Notes
- News and Notes
2020 C. L. Sonnichsen Award
The Arizona Historical Society is pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 C. L. Sonnichsen Award for best article in the previous volume of the Journal of Arizona History. The judges have selected “From Senior Citizen to Sun Citian: Aging and Race in Neoliberal Retirement” by Flannery Burke, which appeared in the Autumn/Winter issue last year. Burke is an associate professor of history at Saint Louis University, where she teaches courses in western, environmental, and women’s history. She is the author of two books, including most recently A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century (University of Arizona Press, 2017). Congratulations, Dr. Burke!
2021 Arizona History Convention
The 2021 Arizona History Convention will be held virtually, April 22–24. The theme this year is “Advocating for Change, Navigating Crises,” an adaptation of last year’s theme—“Advocating for Change”—which was meant to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment and national woman suffrage. Presenters were encouraged to consider historical actors who advocated for change and navigated crises in the past. The Arizona History Convention has itself had to navigate the continuing public health crisis that began early last year, but we have an exciting program of virtual presentations slated for April. For more information or to view the program, visit the convention website, arizonahistory.org.
Errata
In the Summer 2020 issue “Book Notes” section, there are two errors in the note on Doug Hocking’s book Terror on the Santa Fe Trail: Kit Carson and the Jicarilla Apache. The price should have been listed as $29.95 instead of $28.50, and the Jicarilla Apache did not side with Mexico at the Battle of San Pasqual. We regret these errors. [End Page 127]
Charles Leland Sonnichsen Award Winners (for best article in one volume of Journal of Arizona History)
2020: Flannery Burke, “From Senior Citizen to Sun Citian: Aging and Race in Neoliberal Retirement”
2019: Tom Zoellner, “The Catalina Highway: Boosterism, Convict Labor, and the Road to Tucson’s Backyard Mountain”
2018: Mary Melcher, “Divorce in the Desert: Unhappy Marriages and Female Autonomy in Arizona, 1870–1930”
2017: Michael A. Amundson, “Seeing Arizona, Imagining Mars: Deserts, Canals, Global Climate Change, and the American West”
2016: Nick Di Taranto, “A Mountain in a Sea of Sprawl: Preserving Phoenix’s Camelback Mountain, 1954–1973”
2015: Michael Speelman, “‘Unhappy Differences Have Arisen’: Anna Charouleau and a Wife’s Property Rights in Territorial Arizona”
2014: Maurice Crandall, “Wassaja Comes Home: A Yavapai Perspective on Carlos Montezuma’s Search for Identity”
2013: Stephanie Capaldo, “Smoke and Mirrors: Smelter Pollution and the Construction of Arizona Identity in the Late Twentieth Century”
2012: Thomas G. Smith, “Worshipping at the Grand Canyon: The Shrine of the Ages Chapel Controversy”
2011: Li Yang, “‘In Search of a Homeland’: Lai Ngan, a pioneer Chinese Woman and Her Family on the U.S.–Mexico Border” [End Page 128]
2010: Carlos Francisco Parra, “Valientes Nogalenses: The 1918 Battle Between the U.S. and Mexico that Transformed Ambos Nogales”
2009: Allan Radbourne, “Great Chief: Hashkeedasillaa of the White Mountain Apaches”
2008: James M. Wood and Thomas A. Wood, “To Win, Hold, and Lose the Land: The Families of Santa Cruz and the San Rafael de la Zanja Land Grant”
2007: Larry D. Ball, “That ‘Miserable Book’: Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter
2006: Jean Reynolds, “Mexican American Women in 1930s’ Phoenix: Coming of Age During the Great Depression”
2005: Louis A. Hieb, “‘The Flavor of Adventure Now Rare’: H. C. Rizer’s Account of James Stevenson’s 1882 Bureau of Ethnology Expedition to Canyon de Chelly”
2004: Larry D. Ball, “Tom Horn and the ‘Talking Boy’ Controversy”
2003: John Wills, “‘On Burro’d Time’: Feral Burros, the Brighty Legend, and the Pursuit of Wilderness in the Grand Canyon
2002: Tricia Loscher, “Kate Thomson Cory: Artist in Hopiland”
2001: Paul T. Hietter, “To Encourage the Preservation and Sanctity of the Marriage Relation: Victorian Attitudes in Arizona Territory and the Murder Prosecution of Frank C. Kibbey”
2000: Andrew H. Fisher, “Working in the Indian Way: The Southwest Forest Firefighter Program and Native American Wage Labor”
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