2011 Leadership in History Awards Winners Listed by State The Albert B. Corey Award Mathews Maritime Foundation, Mathews, VA Alabama Name: Moundville Archaeological Park Nomination: for the exhibit Moundville: Lost Realm of the Black Warrior Alaska Name: Juneau-Douglas County City Museum Nomination: for the Juneau: Alaska s Capital City Digital Stories Project Arkansas Name: Old State House Museum Nomination: for the exhibit Badges, Bandits and Bars: Arkansas Law & Justice Connecticut Name: Chester Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit Streams of Change: Life & Industry Along the Pattaconk Name: Cornwall Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit Visions and Contradictions: The Foreign Mission School 1817-1836 Colorado Name: La Plata County Historical Society Nomination: for the Home for History Project Name: Zebulon Miracle Nomination: for the documentary Stories From the Land: McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area Delaware Name: Delaware Historical Society Nomination: for the Read House Exterior Preservation project Georgia Name: Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell Nomination: for the publication Crossroads of Conflict: A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia Name: The Columbus Museum Nomination: for the exhibit Let the Records Show: Discovering the Valley s Black Community in Slavery and Freedom
Name: Georgia Historical Society Nomination: for the Civil War at 150 historical marker project Name: Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum Nomination: for their exhibit redesign Idaho Name: 366 th Civil Engineer Squadron Mountain Home Air Force Base Nomination: for the publication Mountain Home AFB Modern: The Capehart-Wherry Housing Project of MHAFB ID Name: Basque Museum and Cultural Center Nomination: for the exhibit Hidden in Plain Sight: The Basques Name: Idaho State Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit Governing Idaho: How People and Politics Shape Our State Illinois Name: Grayslake Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit Embracing Change: The Growth of Grayslake Indiana Name: Indiana Historical Society Nomination: for the Indiana Experience Iowa Name: Dr. Jeff Stein Nomination: for a career dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history of Iowa broadcasting Kentucky Name: Kentucky Historical Society Nomination: the publications Abraham Lincoln and Kentucky and Kentucky and the Contested Legacy of Jefferson Davis Louisiana Name: Louisiana s Old State Capitol Nomination: for their new permanent exhibits Maine Name: Museum L-A, Catherine Besterman, and Anne Kemper Nomination: for the project Rivers of Immigration: People s of the Androscoggin
Massachusetts Name: Martha s Vineyard Museum Nomination: for the website Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship This nomination is also the recipient of the WOW Award. Name: Sons and Daughters of Hawley Nomination: for the exhibit Hawley s Old Town Common Historic Site Name: USS Constitution Museum Nomination: for The Family Learning Project Michigan Name: Edsel and Eleanor Ford House and Audissey Media Nomination: for The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Landscape Tour Minnesota Name: Biloine W. Young and Eileen R. McCormack Nomination: for the publication The Dutiful Son: Louis W. Hill, Life in the Shadow of the Empire Builder, James J. Hill Missouri Name: Missouri History Museum Nomination: for project The Americans with Disabilities Act: 20 Years Later Montana Name: Historical Museum at Fort Missoula Nomination: for the exhibit When the Mountains Roared: The Fire of 1910 New Hampshire Name: Paul Wainwright and Peter Benes Nomination: for the publication A Space for Faith: The Colonial Meetinghouses of New England New Mexico Name: New Mexico History Museum, El Paso Museum of History, and The Historic New Orleans Collection Nomination: for the project The Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States (El Hilo de la Memoria: España y los Estados Unidos) New York Name: New-York Historical Society and El Museo del Barrio Nomination: for the exhibit Nueva York, 1614-1945 North Carolina Name: Greensboro Historical Museum, Inc. Nomination: for the exhibit Voices of a City: Greensboro, North Carolina
Name: North Carolina Museum of History Nomination: for the exhibit Behind the Veneer: Thomas Day, Master Cabinetmaker This nomination is also the recipient of the WOW Award. Name: University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State Archives, Outer Banks History Center Nomination: for the website North Carolina Maps North Dakota Name: Germans from Russia Heritage Collection Nomination: for exceptional work in preserving and sharing the culture of Germans from Russia on the Northern Plains This nomination is also the recipient of the WOW Award. Name: State Historical Society of North Dakota Nomination: for the exhibit Gardening in North Dakota Oregon Name: The Oregon Council of Teachers of English, Portland State University, and the Oregon Historical Society Nomination: for The Oregon Encyclopedia Pennsylvania Name: City of Philadelphia Department of Records Nomination: for the website PhillyHistory.org Name: Fairmount Park Art Association Nomination: for Museum Without Walls AUDIO Name: Jefferson County Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit Living on the Land Name: Pennsbury Manor, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Nomination: for the exhibit William Penn: The Seed of a Nation Name: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Richard C. Saylor, Michael J. O Malley III, Kimberly L. Stone, Ted R. Walke, Christy Gauthier, and Don Giles Nomination: for the publication Soldiers to Governors: Pennsylvania s Civil War Veterans Who Became State Leaders Name: The Wharton Esherick Museum, The University of Pennsylvania Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania s Architectural Archives, and Hedgerow Theatre Nomination: for Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern
South Carolina Name: Historic Columbia Foundation Nomination: for the project Connecting Communities through History South Dakota Name: South Dakota State Historical Society Nomination: for the journal South Dakota History Tennessee Name: Tennessee State Museum Nomination: for the exhibit We Shall Not Be Moved: 50 th Anniversary of Tennessee s Civil Rights Sit-ins Texas Name: Donald S. Frazier, Andrew Hillhouse, and Anne Ball Ryals Nomination: for the publication Love and War: The Civil War Letters and Medicinal Book of Augustus V. Ball Name: Jay Moore Nomination: for the DVD History in Plain Sight Name: William McWhorter, Lara Newcomer, Bob Brinkman, Dr. Stephen Sloan, Lois Myers, and Elinor Maźe Nomination: for the Texas in World War II Initiative Name: Star of the Republic Museum Nomination: for the website TXINDEPENDENCE.ORG Utah Name: Museum of Peoples and Cultures Nomination: for the exhibit Beneath Your Feet: Discovering the Archaeology of Utah Valley Virginia Name: Virginia Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia Washington Name: The Center for Wooden Boats Nomination: for their dedication to making maritime history come alive since 1976 Name: Museum of History and Industry Nomination: for the multimedia project MOHAI Minutes Name: Washington Women s History Consortium and Washington State Historical Society Nomination: for the Washington State Women s Suffrage Centennial Commemoration
West Virginia Name: The Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum Nomination: for the exhibit Helmet Men: Mine Rescuers of Appalachia s Coalfields Wisconsin Name: Wisconsin Historical Society Press Nomination: for the publication Wisconsin s Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes Name: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Libraries Nomination: for the March on Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project Digital Collection