Prizes awarded by the PHA

Philip S. Klein Pennsylvania History Prize | Philip S. Klein Book Prize | Robert G. Crist Pennsylvania History Prize

Philip S. Klein Pennsylvania History Prize, awarded in odd numbered years for the best article to appear in Pennsylvania History:
 
October 2005 (for the years 2003-2004)
  John Thomas McGuire, "Two Feminist Visions: Social Justice Feminism and Equal Rights, 1899-1940," Pennsylvania History, 71 (fall 2004): 445-78.
October 2003 (for the years 2001-2002)
  Hermann Wellenreuther, "White Eyes and the Delawares’ Vision of an Indian State," Pennsylvania History, 68 (Spring 2001): 139-161.
October 2001 (for the years 1999-2000)
  Jane T. Merritt, "Cultural Encounters along a Gender Frontier: Mahican, Delaware, and German Women in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania History, 67 (Autumn 2000): 502-531. 490-508.
November 1999 (for the years 1997-1998)
  Eric Ledell Smith, "The End of Black Voting Rights in Pennsylvania: African-Americans and the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1837-38," Pennsylvania History, 65 (Summer 1998): 279-299.
November 1997 (for the years 1995-1996)
  Philip Jenkins, "'Spy Mad'? Investigating Subversion in Pennsylvania, 1917-1918," Pennsylvania History, 63 (Spring 1996): 204-231.
October 1995 (for the years 1993-1994)
  Richard Alan Ryerson, "William Penn's Gentry Commonwealth: An Interpretation of the Constitutional History of Early Pennsylvania, 1681-1701," Pennsylvania History 61 (October 1994):4.
October 1993 (for the years 1991-1992)
  Gerald G. Eggert, "`Two Steps Forward, A Step-and-a-Half Back': Harrisburg's African-American Community in the Nineteenth century," Pennsylvania History 58 (January 1991): 1-36.
October 1991 (for the years 1989-1990)
  Daniel K. Richter, "A Framework for Pennsylvania Indian History," Pennsylvania History 57 (July 1990): 236-261.
October 1989 (for the years 1987-1988)
  Dennis B. Downey and Raymond M. Hyser, "`A Crooked Death': Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker," Pennsylvania History 54 (April 1987): 85-102.
October 1987 (for the years 1985-1986)
  Laurence M. Hauptman, "General John S. Bragdon, The Office of Public Works Planning, and the Decision to Build the Pennsylvania Kinzua Dam,"Pennsylvania History 53 (July 1986): 181-200.
 
Philip S. Klein Book Prize, given in even numbered years for the best book illuminating the history of Pennsylvania:
 
October 2006 (2004-2005)
  Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht, The face of Delciner: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005)
October 2004 (for 2002-2003)
  Bruce Dorsey, Reforming Men and Women: Gender in Antebellum City (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002).
October 2002 (for 2000-2001)
  William A. Blair and William A. Pencak, Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001).
October 2000 (for 1998-1999)
  Kenneth J. Heineman, A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh, (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999).
October 1998 (for 1996-97)
  Carol Reardon, Pickett's Charge in History and Memory, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
October 1996 (for 1994-95):
  Ewa Morawska, Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).
 
Robert G. Crist Pennsylvania History Prize given in odd numbered years for the best article by a graduate student to appear in Pennsylvania History:
 
October 2005 (for the years 2003-2004)
  Daniel Sidorick, "The 'Girl Army': The Philadelphia Shirtwaist Strike of 1909-1910," Pennsylvania History, 71 (summer 2004): 323-69.
October 2003 (for the years 2001-2002)
  Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe, "Poor Children and Enlightened Citizens: Lutheran Education in America," Pennsylvania History, 68 (Spring 2001): 162-201.
October 2001 (for the years 1999-2000)
  Paul Sabin, "'A Dive into Nature's Grab-bag': Nature, Gender and Capitalism in the Early Pennsylvania Oil Industry," Pennsylvania History 66 (Fall 1999): 472-505
November 1999 (for the years 1997-1998)
  Jill E. Cooper, "Keeping the Girls on the Line: The Medical Department and Women Workers at AT&T, 1913-1940," Pennsylvania History, 64 (Autumn 1997): 490-508.
November 1997 (for the years 1995-1996)
  Jim Weeks, "A New Race of Farmers: The Labor Rule, the Farmers' High School, and the Origins of The Pennsylvania State University," Pennsylvania History, 62 (Winter 1995): 5-30.
     
Chairperson--Klein Book Prize Prize Committee Elizabeth Ricketts, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
ricketts@iup.edu
Chairperson- Klien and Crist Prize Committee David Dixon, Slippery Rock University
david.dixon@sru.edu

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