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Presbyterian
Historical Society
Publishing Award Winners
Francis Makemie Award
For an outstanding book-length contribution to the study of American
Presbyterian and Reformed history:
- 1999 P. C. Kemeny, Princeton in the Nation's Service: Religious
Ideals and Educational Practice, 1868-1928 (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998).
- 1998 William O. Ragsdale, They Sought a Land: A Settlement in
the Arkansas River Valley, 1840-1870 (Fayetteville: University of
Arkansas Press, 1997).
- 1997 Bryan F. LeBeau, Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years
of American Presbyterianism (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press,
1997).
- 1996 Erskine Clarke, Our Southern Zion: A History of Calvinism
in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990 (Tuscaloosa: University
of Alabama Press, 1996).
- 1995 Mark Valeri, Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy's New
England: The Origins of the New Divinity in Revolutionary America
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
- 1994 D. G. Hart, Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and
the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America (Baltimore
and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).
- 1993 Milton J Coalter, John M. Mulder, and Louis B. Weeks, editors
of the series "The Presbyterian Presence" (Louisville: Westminster/John
Knox Press, 1990-1992).
The series "The Presbyterian Presence" consists of the following seven
volumes:
- The Presbyterian Predicament: Six Perspectives
- The Pluralistic Vision: Presbyterians and Mainstream Protestant
Education and Leadership
- The Confessional Mosaic: Presbyterians and Twentieth-Century
Theology
- The Organizational Revolution: Presbyterians and American Denominationalism
- The Diversity of Discipleship: Presbyterians and Twentieth-Century
Christian Witness
- The Mainstream Protestant Decline: The Presbyterian Pattern
- The Re-Forming Tradition: Presbyterians and Mainstream Protestantism
- 1992 Bradley J. Longfield, The Presbyterian Controversy: Fundamentalists,
Modernists, and Moderates (New York: Oxford University Press, Religion
in America series, 1991).
Honorable Mention for the Makemie Award:
- 1994 Joel L. Alvis, Jr., Religion and Race: Southern Presbyterians,
1946-1983 (Tuscaloosa and London, The University of Alabama Press,
1994).
- 1993 James A. Gittings, From Dream to Reality: A Contextual
History of the First Twenty Years of the Presbyterian Committee on the
Self-Development of People (Louisville, Ky.: The Committee, 1993).
- 1993 Mark T. Banker, Presbyterian Missions and Cultural Interaction
in the Far Southwest, 1850-1950 (Urbana and Chicago: University
of Illinois Press, 1993).
- 1992 Charles Partee, Adventure in Africa: The Story of Don McClure
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, Ministry Resources
Library, 1990).
Robert Lee Stowe Award
For the best published historical study of an American Presbyterian or
Reformed congregation:
- 1999 Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, California for
A Pioneer Community of Faith: Old First Presbyterian Church, 1849-1999
by Stephen L. Taber (San Francisco: Old First Presbyterian Church, 1999).
- 1998 First Presbyterian Church, San Anselmo, California for Our
Past: A Window to the FutureÛA Centennial History of the First Presbyterian
Church, San Anselmo, edited by Walter D. Davis (San Anselmo: First
Presbyterian Church, 1997).
- 1997 Highland Park Presbyterian Church, Highland Park, Illinois
for The Highland Park Presbyterian Church: A History by Bruce
L. Felknor (Highland Park: Highland Park Presbyterian Church, 1996).
- 1996 Church of the Covenant, Cleveland, Ohio for Church with
a Conscience: A History of Cleveland's Church of the Covenant by
Carol Poh Miller (Cleveland: Church of the Covenant, 1995).
- 1995 Las Placitas Presbyterian Church, Las Placitas, New Mexico
for Century of Faith: One Hundred Years in the Life of Las Placitas
Presbyterian Church by Suzanne Sims Forrest (Las Placitas: Desert
Dream Publishers, 1995).
- 1994 Christiansburg Presbyterian Church, Christiansburg, Virginia
for Baptized Into One Body: The First 165 Years of Christiansburg
Presbyterian Church by Monty S. Leitch (Christiansburg, Va.: The
Board of Trustees, Christiansburg Presbyterian Church, 1993).
- 1993 Market Square Presbyterian Church of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
for Serving Christ and Community: A History of Market Square Presbyterian
Church, 1794-1992, by William Sisson.
- 1992 Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, Illinois for A Light
in the City: The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago by Marilee
Munger Scroggs (Chicago: Fourth Presbyterian Church, 1992).
Honorable Mention for the Stowe Award:
- 1998 Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Marshall, Texas for Family
of Faith: Cumberland Presbyterians in Harrison County, 1848-1998
by Rose Mary Magrill (Marshall, Tex., and Memphis: Sesquicentennial
Committee [Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Marshall] and Historical
Foundation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1998).
- 1994 Memorial Presbyterian Church of San Augustine, Texas for The
Cradle of Texas Presbyterianism: A History of Memorial Presbyterian
Church, San Augustine, Texas by William E. Lytch (Franklin, Tenn.:
Providence House Publishers, 1993).
- 1994 First Presbyterian Church of Galveston, Texas for Lively Stones:
A History of the People Who Built First Presbyterian Church, Galveston,
Texas, 1840-1990 by Retta Lou Weber and Gayle Weber Strange (Franklin,
Tenn.: Providence House Publishers, 1993).
- 1993 University Presbyterian Church of Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
for A History of University Presbyterian Church, 1942-1992, edited
by Charles East (Baton Rouge: University Presbyterian Church, 1992).
- 1992 Independent Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Alabama for
The Bearing Day Is Not Gone: The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary History
of Independent Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Alabama, 1915-1990
by Marvin Yoemans Whiting (Birmingham: Independent Presbyterian Church,
1990)
- 1992 Oak Cliff Presbyterian Church of Dallas, Texas for On the
Right Side of the Trinity: The History of the Oak Cliff Presbyterian
Church, Dallas, Texas, 1890-1990 by Thomas W. Currie, Jr. (Austin,
TX: Nortex Press, 1990).
Special Commendations for the Stowe Award:
- 1998 To the First Presbyterian Church of Cedar Rapids, Iowa for
In the Heart of the City: A History of First Presbyterian Church,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1847-1997 by Allen Fisher and David Hay (Cedar
Rapids: First Presbyterian Church, 1997)
- 1994 Special commendation for narrative creativity to the First
Presbyterian Church of Ouray, Colorado for In Journeyings Often:
A Story of Ouray Told Through Its First Church by Roger Henn (Ouray,
Colo., First Presbyterian Church, 1993).
- 1993 Special Commendation for a history produced by a small congregation
to the First Presbyterian Church, Bandon, Oregon for 100 Years in
Mission, by Donna Young and Helen Young (Myrtle Point, Ore.: Myrtle
Point Printing, 1991).
Woodrow Wilson Award
For the best published scholarly article pertaining to American Presbyterian
or Reformed history:
- 1999 Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf, "Lending a Hand
to Labor: James Myers and the Federal Council of Churches, 1926-1947,"
Church History 68 (March 1999): 62-86.
- 1998 Moses N. Moore, Jr., "Edward Wilmot Blyden: From Old
School Presbyterian Missionary to ÎMinister of Truth," Journal
of Presbyterian History 75 (Summer 1997): 103-118.
- 1995-1997 No award presented.
- 1994 Douglas Firth Anderson, "Modernization and Theological
Conservatism in the Far West: The Controversy Over Thomas F. Day, 1907-1912,"
Fides et Historia 24 (Summer 1994): 76-90.
- 1993 Paul C. Kemeny, "President Francis Landey Patton, Princeton
University, and Faculty Ferment," American Presbyterians 69 (Summer
1991): 111-121.
- 1992 Gerald R. McDermott, "Jonathan Edwards, the City on a
Hill, and the Redeemer Nation: A Reappraisal," American Presbyterians
69 (Spring 1991): 33-47.
Honorable Mention for the Wilson Award:
- 1999 Barbara C. Murison for "ÎGetting his walking ticketÌ:
Minister and Laity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Toronto," Journal
of Canadian Studies 32 (Fall 1997): 36-54.
Special Commendation for the Wilson Award:
- 1998 Marthame E. Sanders, III, for "ÎA Fellowship of ConcernÌ
and the Declining Doctrine of the Spirituality of the Church in the
Presbyterian Church in the United States," Journal of Presbyterian
History 75 (Fall 1997):
Patricia Ann Burrus Spaulding Award
For the best published scholarly article pertaining to an American Presbyterian
or Reformed woman or women:
- 1999 Elizabeth G. Hendricks, "Mildred McAfee Horton (1900-1994):
Portrait of a Pathbreaking Christian Leader," Journal of Presbyterian
History 76 (Summer 1998): 159-174.
- 1998 Ruth Crocker, "From WidowÌs Mite to WidowÌs Might: The
Philanthropy of Margaret Olivia Sage," American Presbyterians
74 (Winter 1996): 253-264.
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