WILLIAM M. E. RACHAL AWARD
The William M. E. Rachal Award was established in 1985 for the overall best article to appear in our quarterly journal, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Each year a committee of the journal's editorial advisory board selects the author whose essay has best advanced the cause of scholarship in Virginia history. The award carries a cash prize and honors the long-time editor of the journal, Will Rachal, who served from 1953 to 1980.
Past recipients:
David F. Allmendinger, Jr., "The Early Career of Edmund Ruffin, 1810–1840," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 93, no. 2 (1985)
Ronald L. Heinemann, "Virginia in the Twentieth Century: Recent Interpretations," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 94, no. 2 (1986)
Anita H. Rutman, "Still Planting the Seeds of Hope: The Recent Literature of the Early Chesapeake Region," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 95, no. 1 (1987)
Dell Upton, "New Views of the Virginia Landscape," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 96, no. 4 (1988)
Alden T. Vaughan, "The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 97, no. 3 (1989)
J. Frederick Fausz, "An 'Abundance of Blood Shed on Both Sides': England's First Indian War, 1609–1614," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 98, no. 1 (1990)
Jack Temple Kirby, "Virginia's Environmental History: A Prospectus," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 99, no. 4 (1991)
Ann Field Alexander, "'Like an Evil Wind': The Roanoke Riot of 1893 and the Lynching of Thomas Smith," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 100, no. 2 (1992)
Phyllis A. Hall, "Crisis at Hampton Roads: The Problems of Wartime Congestion, 1942–1944," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 101, no. 3 (1993)
Gail S. Terry, "Sustaining the Bonds of Kinship in a Trans-Appalachian Migration, 1790–1811: The Cabell-Breckinridge Slaves Move West," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 102, no. 4 (1994)
Eric T. Dean, Jr., "'We Live under a Government of Men and Morning Newspapers': Image, Expectation, and the Peninsula Campaign of 1862," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 103, no. 1 (1995)
Cynthia A. Kierner, "Genteel Balls and Republican Parades: Gender and Early Southern Civic Rituals, 1677–1826," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 104, no. 2 (1996)
Harold S. Forsythe, "'But My Friends are Poor': Ross Hamilton and Freedpeople's Politics in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, 1869–1901," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 105, no. 4 (1997)
Noel G. Harrison, "Atop and an Anvil: The Civilians' War in Fairfax and Alexandria Counties, April 1861–April 1862," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 106, no. 2 (1998)
William Guthrie Sayen, "George Washington’s 'Unmannerly' Behavior: The Clash Between Civility and Honor," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 107, no. 1 (1999)
Edward Bond, "Source of Knowledge, Source of Power: The Supernatural World of English Virginia, 1607-1624," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 108, no. 2 (2000)
Jean B. Lee, "Historical Memory, Sectional Strife, and the American Mecca: Mount Vernon, 1783–1853," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 109, no. 3 (2001)
Roger D. Cunningham, "'They are as Proud of their Uniform as Any Who Serve Virginia': African American Participation in the Virginia Volunteers, 1872–99,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 110, no. 3 (2002)
Michael Ayers Trotti, "Murder Made Real: The Visual Revolution of the Halftone," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 111, no. 4 (2003)
Jeffrey H. Richards, "Samuel Davies and the Transatlantic Campaign for Slave Literacy in Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 111, no. 4 (2003)
Philip Levy, "A New Look at an Old Wall: Indians, Englishmen, Landscape, and the 1634 Palisade at Middle Plantation," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 112, no. 3 (2004)
Kevin M. Levin, "William Mahone, the Lost Cause, and Civil War History," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 113, no. 4 (2005)
Ellen Eslinger, "Freedom Without Independence: The Story of a Former Slave and Her Family," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 114, no. 2 (2006)
Phyllis Leffler, "Mr. Jefferson’s University: Women in the Village!" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 115, no. 1 (2007)
Carolyn E. Janney, "'One of the Best Loved, North and South’: The Appropriation of National Reconciliation by LaSalle Corbell Pickett," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 116, no. 4 (2008)
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