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MHA 2006 Award Winners
(Awards given for work published in 2005)

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
Steven R. Sorenson
LDS Family and Church History Department

Steve Sorenson (L) receiving the Leonard J. Arrington award from committee chair Davis Bitton(R)

MHA Best Book Award - $2,000
Richard L. Bushman
"Joseph Smith, Rough Stone Rolling: A Cultural Biography of Mormonism's Founder"
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2005
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Ron Barney, Richard L. Bushman, Richard Sadler

Smith-Pettit Best First Book Award - $1,200
Robert S. Wicks & Fred R. Foister
"Junius and Joseph: Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet "
Logan, Utah, Utah State University Press, 2005
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Turner-Bergera Best Biography Award - $1,200
Gregory A. Prince & William R. Wright
"David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism "
Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 2005
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Ron Barney, MHA Council Awards Committee Chair (L) with William R. Wright (C) and Gregory A. Prince (R)

Christensen Best Documentary Award - $1,000

Devery S. Anderson & Gary James Bergera
"Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845: A Documentary History"
and "The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History"
Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 2005
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Thomas Rice King Best Family or Community History Award - $500
Not awarded

T. Edgar Lyon Best Article of Year Award - $500
Stephen C. LeSueur
"Missouri's Failed Compromise: The Creation of Caldwell County for the Mormons "
Journal of Mormon History, vol. 32, no. 3,
(Fall 2005), 113-114.

Certificate of Merit - $100
Benjamin P. Allred
Thomas Sharp: The Man Behind the Smith Murder Conspiracy." Presented at the 2006 Religious Education Student Symposium at Brigham Young University, February 24, 2006

J. Talmage Jones Awards of Excellence - $500 ($350 ea.)
Craig Livingston
“Eyes on the Whole European World: Mormon Observers of the 1848 Revolutions "
Journal of Mormon History, vol. 32, no 3,
( Fall 2005), 78-112

Gregory A. Prince & Gary Topping
"A Turbulent Coexistence: Duane Hut, David O. McKay and a Quarter-Century of Catholic-Mormon Relations”
Journal of Mormon History, vol. 32, no. 1
(Spring 2005), 142-163

Juanita Brooks Best Graduate Paper - $400
Matthew J. Grow
University of Notre Dame
"Thomas L. Kane, Antebellum Reform, Defense of Mormons "

Juanita Brooks Best Undergraduate Paper - $300
Stanley J. Thayne
Brigham Young University
“Walking on Water Stories” Revisited

Stanley J. Thayne (L) and Alex L. Baugh (R)

Thomas L. Kane Award
Elizabeth G. Dulany
Recently retired Associate Director of the University of Illinois Press, Liz is recognized by the Mormon History Association as the catalyst behind the press's monumental accomplishment in publishing serious Mormon history over the past generation and longer. Liz Dulany, who began work at the press on April 1, 1957, is widely acknowledged in the Mormon historical community as having fostered some of the most important scholarship to appear in Mormon studies.

Sally Gordon (L) and Liz Dulany (R), Liz received the Thomas L. Kane award at the Casper conference.

Special Citations
Robert A. Clark
MHA recognized the significant contribution made to the study and publication of Mormon history by Robert A. Clark, publisher of the Arthur H. Clark Company. Bob, continuing his family's legacy of the preservation and popularization of the West and the Mormon presence and contributions within it, has ensured for the future generations a greater appreciation of our historical heritage.

Robert A. Clark and Bill MacKinnon