John Whitmer Historical Association
Home JWHA Membership About JWHA Annual Meetings Officers & Staff Resources
News & Updates Newsletter Publications Awards Scholarships Links Contact Us
Home >> Awards
 
Awards
 
Each year at the JWHA Annual Meeting in September, we give awards for the Best Book, Best Article and Best Student Paper in the field of Latter Day Saint history. The Best Book Award is generously underwritten by the Smith-Pettit Foundation of Salt Lake City . Please send your nominations for awards to Bill Shepard, Chair of the JWHA Awards Committee.
 
2006 JWHA Award Recipients
 
Smith-Pettit Best Book AwardMelvin C. Johnson Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’s Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858
Best Article AwardRichard Clothier“Different Drummers: The Diverse Hymnody of the Reorganization”
Lifetime Achievement AwardPaul M. Edwards 

 
2005 JWHA Award Recipients
 
Smith-Pettit Best Book AwardRobert S. Wicks and Fred R. FoisterJunius and Joseph: Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet
Best Article AwardKim L. Loving“Ownership of the Kirtland Temple: Legends, Lies, and Misunderstandings”
Special Book AwardNewell G. Bringhurst and Lavina Fielding Anderson (eds.)Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century
Special Book AwardDevery S. Anderson and Gary James Bergera (eds.)Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845: A Documentary History and The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History

 
2004 JWHA Award Recipients
 
Smith-Pettit Best Book AwardDan VogelJoseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet
Best Article AwardRobert Flanders“Nauvoo On My Mind”
Lifetime Achievement AwardAlma Blair 
Best Student Paper AwardDavid J. Howlett“Memory, Prophets, and Polygamy: The RLDS Church and American Religious Transformations in the Late Twentieth Century”

 
2003 JWHA Award Recipients
 
Smith-Pettit Best Book AwardWill BagleyBlood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Best Article AwardD. Michael Quinn"National Culture, Personality, and Theocracy in the Early Mormon Culture or Violence"
Lifetime Achievement AwardRichard P. Howard 
Special AwardDan VogelEarly Mormon Documents

 
2002 JWHA Award Recipients
 
Smith-Pettit Best Book AwardGlen LeonardNauvoo: A Place of Peace, A Place of Promise
Best Article AwardEric Rogers"Mark Hill Forscutt: Mormon Missionary, Morrisite Apostle, RLDS Minister"
Lifetime Achievement AwardLeonard J. Arrington 

 
All contents copyright ©2003-2008 by John Whitmer Historical Association