Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Award Winners
William M. E. Rachal Award:
The William M. E. Rachal Award was established in 1985 for the overall best article to appear in the Virginia Historical Society's 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 of $250 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," vol. 93, no. 2 (1985)
Ronald L. Heinemann, "Virginia in the Twentieth Century: Recent Interpretations," vol. 94, no. 2 (1986)
Anita H. Rutman, "Still Planting the Seeds of Hope: The Recent Literature of the Early Chesapeake Region," vol. 95, no. 1 (1987)
Dell Upton, "New Views of the Virginia Landscape," vol. 96, no. 4 (1988)
Alden T. Vaughan, "The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia," vol. 97, no. 3 (1989)
J. Frederick Fausz, "An 'Abundance of Blood Shed on Both Sides': England's First Indian War, 1609–1614," vol. 98, no. 1 (1990)
Jack Temple Kirby, "Virginia's Environmental History: A Prospectus," vol. 99, no. 4 (1991)
Ann Field Alexander, "'Like an Evil Wind': The Roanoke Riot of 1893 and the Lynching of Thomas Smith," vol. 100, no. 2 (1992)
Phyllis A. Hall, "Crisis at Hampton Roads: The Problems of Wartime Congestion, 1942–1944," 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," 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," vol. 103, no. 1 (1995)
Cynthia A. Kierner, "Genteel Balls and Republican Parades: Gender and Early Southern Civic Rituals, 1677–1826," 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," vol. 105, no. 4 (1997)
Noel G. Harrison, "Atop and an Anvil: The Civilians' War in Fairfax and Alexandria Counties, April 1861–April 1862," vol. 106, no. 2 (1998)
William Guthrie Sayen, "George Washington's 'Unmannerly' Behavior: The Clash Between Civility and Honor," vol. 107, no. 1 (1999)
Edward Bond, "Source of Knowledge, Source of Power: The Supernatural World of English Virginia, 1607–1624," vol. 108, no. 2 (2000)
Jean B. Lee, "Historical Memory, Sectional Strife, and the American Mecca: Mount Vernon, 1783–1853," 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," vol. 110, no. 3 (2002)
Michael Ayers Trotti, "Murder Made Real: The Visual Revolution of the Halftone," vol. 111, no. 4 (2003)
Jeffrey H. Richards, "Samuel Davies and the Transatlantic Campaign for Slave Literacy in Virginia," vol. 111, no. 4 (2003)
Philip Levy, "A New Look at an Old Wall: Indians, Englishmen, Landscape, and the 1634 Palisade at Middle Plantation," vol. 112, no. 3 (2004)
Kevin M. Levin, "William Mahone, the Lost Cause, and Civil War History," vol. 113, no. 4 (2005)
Ellen Eslinger, "Freedom Without Independence: The Story of a Former Slave and Her Family," vol. 114, no. 2 (2006)
Phyllis Leffler, "Mr. Jefferson's University: Women in the Village!" vol. 115, no. 1 (2007)
C. Coleman McGehee Award:
The C. Coleman McGehee Award was established in 1995 to recognize the best article written by a graduate student in the Virginia Historical Society"s quarterly journal, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. The prize, which carries a cash award of $250, was created in memory of C. Coleman McGehee, who served as president of the society from 1992 to 1994.
Past recipients:
Douglas Smith, "'When Reason Collides with Prejudice': Armistead Lloyd Boothe and the Politics of Desegregation in Virginia, 1948–1963," vol. 102, no. 1 (1994)
Michael Ayers Trotti, "Freedmen and Enslaved Soil: A Case Study of Manumission, Migration, and Land," vol. 104, no. 4 (1996)
Peter J. Kastor, "'Equitable Rights and Privileges': The Divided Loyalties in Washington County, Virginia, during the Franklin Separatist Crisis," vol. 105, no. 2 (1997)
Robert H. Gudmestad, "Baseball, the Lost Cause, and the New South in Richmond, Virginia, 1883–1890," vol. 106, no. 3 (1998)
L. Diane Barnes, "Southern Artisans, Organizations, and the Rise of a Market Economy in Antebellum Petersburg," vol. 107, no. 2 (1999)
Rand Dotson, "'The Grave and Scandalous Evil Infected to Your People': The Erosion of Confederate Loyalty in Floyd County, Virginia," vol. 108, no. 4 (2000)
Charles F. Irons, "The Spiritual Fruits of Revolution: Disestablishment and the Rise of the Virginia Baptists," vol. 109, no. 2 (2001)
Christopher C. Nehls, "Flag-Waving Wahoos: Confederate Symbols at the University of Virginia, 1941–51," vol. 110, no. 4 (2002)
Sarah Hand Meacham, "'They Will Be Adjudged by Their Drink, What Kinde of Housewives They Are': Gender, Technology, and Household Cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690–1760," vol. 111, no. 2 (2003)
Owen Stanwood, "Captives and Slaves: Indian Labor, Cultural Conversion, and the Plantation Revolution in Virginia," vol. 114, no. 4 (2006)
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