Article Prizes
The Philip S. Klein Pennsylvania History Prize is awarded in odd numbered years for the best article published in Pennsylvania History.
The Robert G. Crist Prize Pennsylvania History Prize is awarded in odd numbered years for the best article by a graduate student to appear in Pennsylvania History.
Article Prize Chair: Dolores Pfeiffer Scherer (schered@philau.edu)
Previous Philip S. Klein Pennsylvania History Prize Winners
October 2011 (for 2009-2010)
Simon Finger, "An Indissoluble Union: How the American War for Independence Transformed Philadelphia's Medical Community and Created a Public Health Establishment," Pennsylvania History, 77 (Winter 2010): 37:72.
October 2009 (for 2007-2008)
Matthew C. Ward, “The Peaceable Kingdom Destroyed: The Seven years War and the Transformation of the Pennsylvania Backcountry,” Pennsylvania History, 74 (Summer 2007): 247-279.
October 2007 (for 2005-2006)
Dan P. Barr, "A Road for Warriors: The Western Delawares and the Seven Years’ War,” Pennsylvania History, 73 (Winter 2006): 1-36.
October 2005 (for 2003-2004)
John Thomas McGuire, "Two Feminist Visions: Social Justice Feminism and Equal Rights, 1899-1940," Pennsylvania History, 71 (Fall 2004): 445-478.
October 2003 (for 2001-2002)
Hermann Wellenreuther, "White Eyes and the Delawares' Vision of an Indian State," Pennsylvania History, 68 (Spring 2001): 139-161.
October 2001 (for 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.
November 1999 (for 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 1995-1996)
Philip Jenkins, "'Spy Mad'? Investigating Subversion in Pennsylvania, 1917-1918," Pennsylvania History, 63 (Spring 1996): 204-231.
October 1995 (for 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): 393-426.
October 1993 (for 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 1989-1990)
Daniel K. Richter, "A Framework for Pennsylvania Indian History," Pennsylvania History 57 (July 1990): 236-261.
October 1989 (for 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 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.
Previous Robert G. Crist Pennsylvania History Prize Winners
October 2011 (for 2009-2010)
Julien Comte, "'Let the Federal Men Raid': Bootlegging and Prohibition Enforcement in Pittsburgh," Pennsylvania History, 77 (Spring 2010): 166-192
October 2009 (for 2007-2008)
Thomas R. Saxton, “In Reduced Circumstances: Aging and Impoverished Revolutionary War Veterans and Their Families in the Young Republic,” Pennsylvania History, 74 (Winter 2007): 21-73
October 2007 (for 2005-2006)
Christopher M. Osborne, “Invisible Hands: Slaves, Bound Laborers, and the Development of Western Pennsylvania 1780-1820,” Pennsylvania History, 71 (Winter 2005): 77-89.
October 2005 (for 2003-2004)
Daniel Sidorick, "The 'Girl Army': The Philadelphia Shirtwaist Strike of 1909-1910," Pennsylvania History, 71 (Summer 2004): 323-369.
October 2003 (for 2001-2002)
Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe, "Poor Children and Enlightened Citizens: Lutheran Education in America," Pennsylvania History, 68 (Spring 2001): 162-201.
October 2001 (for 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 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 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.