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MHA 2005 Award Winners
(Awards given for work published in 2004)

The Mormon History Association presents the following awards each year to encourage and foster the highest ideals in scholarly research and publication.

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Leonard J. Arrington Award
Donald L. Enders
LDS Museum of Church History & Art

Don Enders (L) receiving the Leonard J. Arrington award from Past President James Allen (R)

MHA Best Book Award - $1,500
Kathleen Flake
The Politics of American Religious Identity, The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot
North Carolina University Press
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Smith-Pettit Best First Book Award - $1,000
Val D. Rust
Early Mormon Converts and their Colonial Ancestors
University of Illinois Press
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Turner-Bergera Best Biography Award - $1,000
Dan Vogel
Joseph Smith, the Making of a Prophet
Signature Books
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Christensen Best Documentary Award - $700
John Sillito
History's Apprentice, The Diaries of B.H. Roberts, 1880-1898
Signature Books
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Thomas Rice King Best Family or Community History Award - $500
Stephen L. Prince
Gathering in Harmony, A Saga of Southern Utah Families, Their Roots and Pioneering Heritage, and the Tale of Antone Prince, Sheriff of Washington County
Arthur H. Clark Company
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T. Edgar Lyon Best Article of Year Award - $300
Ronald W. Walker
"Grant's Watershed: Succession in the Presidency, 1887-1889,"
BYU Studies 43, no. 2 (2004), 195-229.

Certificate of Merit - $100
none awarded

Special Citations
James Crooks
For his work in indexing the Journal of Mormon History

J. Talmage Jones Awards of Excellence - $500 ($250 ea.)
Polly Aird
($250)
“’You Nasty Apostates, Clear Out': Reasons for Disaffection in the Late 1850s"
Journal of Mormon History, vol. 30, no. 2 (Fall 2004), 129-207

Polly Aird (R) receiving the J. Talmage Jones Award of Excellence from Ronald Barney (L)

Roger D. Launius
($250)
"Mormon Origins: The Church in New York and Ohio," an essay publishied in "Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century”
Greg Kofford Books
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Juanita Brooks Best Graduate Paper - $400 ea.
Jacob Olmstead
Brigham Young University
" The Mormon Hierarchy and the MX"

Jacob Olmstead (L) receiving the Juanita Brooks Best Graduate Paper award from Alex Baugh (R)

Juanita Brooks Best Undergraduate Paper - $300
Stephen Biggs
Brigham Young University
“Mormon Missionaries in Napoleon III’s France: the French Mission, 1850-1864”

Thomas L. Kane Award
Howard Lamar
President Emeritus and Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University
For leading the way in providing context through which members of the LDS Church and others might understand the development of the Latter-day Saints experience. He has done this through nearly sixty years of published scholarship, the mentoring of more the sixty PhD candidates -- LDS members as well as others, who are now at the forefront of their field -- and the presidency of both the Western History Association and Yale University.

Lola Van Wagenen presenting the Thomas L. Kane award to Howard Lamar (L)