2019 Award Winners

Utah State Historical Society FellowsEdward Leo LymanGregory C. Thompson

Utah State Historical Society Honorary Life Member

Kenneth L. AlfordOutstanding Achievement Awards

Max Chang, for educating Utah students on the Chinese contributions to the building of the transcontinental railroad.

Spike 150 Commission’s Executive Committee—Spencer Stokes, Douglas Foxley, Aimee McConkie, Max Chang, and Christopher Robinson—for leading the statewide celebration of the sesquicentennial of the transcontinental railroad.

Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association, for educating, preserving, and promoting the contributions of Chinese, Chinese American, and Asian Pacific Americans to the United States and the transcontinental railroad.

William P. MacKinnon AwardMelissa Coy, Digitization Program SpecialistSponsored by William P. MacKinnon

Utah State Historical Society Best Book in Utah History Award

James R. Swensen, In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954 (University of Utah Press, 2018)

Sponsored by the Utah State Historical Society

Smith-Pettit Foundation Best Documentary Book in Utah History Award

Gary James Bergera, ed., Confessions of a Mormon Historian: The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington (Signature Books, 2018)

Sponsored by the Smith-Pettit Foundation

Dale L. Morgan AwardBest scholarly article in UHQ

Allan Kent Powell, “Utah and World War I” (Summer 2018)

Sponsored by Allan and Thalia Smart and Zeese Papanikolas

Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Award

Best general-interest article in UHQ

Scott K. Thomas, “Reexamining the Radical: Stephen Holbrook and the Utah Strategy for Protesting the Vietnam War” (Winter 2018)

Sponsored by the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

Nick Yengich Memorial Editors’ Choice Award

Cullen Battle, “Ghosts of Mountain Dell: Transportation and Technological Change in the Wasatch Mountains,” UHQ (Winter 2018)

Sponsored by Ron YengichLeRoy S. Axland History Article Award

Best Utah history article or chapter in a publication other than UHQ

Brian Q. Cannon, “’To Buy Up the Lamanite Children as Fast as They Could: ‘Indentured Servitude and Its Legacy in Mormon Society,” Journal of Mormon History (Spring 2018)

Sponsored by Michael W. HomerHelen Papanikolas Student Paper Award

Maya L. Brimhall, Brigham Young University, “The Nineteenth Century Club of Provo, Utah: A Powerful Force in the Formation of Women’s Clubs in Utah”

Sponsored by Patricia Lyn Scott and Linda Thatcher