The Morgan and Jeanie Sherwood Alaska History Award is made by the editorial board of Alaska History, the Society’s journal, for the best article published in the last year. The award includes a cash prize.
2024 Will Schneider Special Issue: ANCSA Documents
2023 Christopher Adkins The Canine Crucible of Labor, Love, Killing, and Kindness of the Gold Rush North 2022 Ray Hudson The Imaginary Frontier and Its True Poverty: The Aleutian Islands at the End of the Nineteenth and Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries 2021 William Schneider When a Small Typo Has Big Implications 2020 Robert L. “Bob” Spude Fairbanks Assayer Gustave Eugene Beraud and 88 Tons of Gold, with Comments on the Assayers in the Alaska-Yukon Goldfields, 1898-1920 2019 Mary F. Ehrlander and Hild M. Peters Grafton and Clara Burke: Medical Missionaries in Fort Yukon 2018 Nora Marks Florendo Dauenhauer (posthumously) Filipinos in Postwar Juneau and the Roles of Tlingit Women in the Filipino Community 2017 Chris Allan Ho! for Sitka ‘Special Correspondents’ and the Race to Report on the 1867 Transfer of Russian America to the United States 2016 Frank Norris Boomers and Bureaucracies: The Battle for Lake George, Alaska 2015 Chris Allan Gold Rush Ice Train: The Curious History of George Glover’s Invention and the U.S. Government’s Klondike Relief Expedition 2014 Chris Allan “Mighty Tall Hustling”: The North Star Oil Syndicate and the Race to Claim Alaska’s Arctic 2012-13 Ross Coen Edna Ferber’s Ice Palace: Gender, Race, Statehood and the Novel as History 2011 Chris Allan “All the Hell I Needed”: The U.S. Geological Survey and the Search for Arctic Oil 2010 Ross Coen “If One Should Come Your Way, Shoot It Down”: The Alaska Territorial Guard and the Japanese Balloon Bomb Attack of World War II Ryan Jones Lisiansky’s Mountain: Changing Views of Nature in Russian America 2009 Andrei V. Grinev “Advanced in Age, Decrepit and Unfit”: Colonial Citizens and the Formation of a Permanent Russian Population in Alaska 2007-08 Chris Allan Save Fort Egbert: How the People of Eagle Reclaimed Their Past 2006 Panu Hallama From the Memoirs of a Finnish Workman Gary Scharnhorst Kate Field on “Despised Alaska” 1887-1894 2005 David Eric Jessup The Rise and Fall of Katalla: “The Coming Metropolis of Alaska” 2003-04 Daniel Nelson Idealism and Organizations: Origins of the Environmental Movement in Alaska 2001-02 Andrei V. Grinev The Dynamics of the Administrative Elite of the Russian-American Company 2000 Andrei V. Grinev The Kaiury: The Slaves of Russian America Frank Norris Skagway, the White Pass Railroad, and the Struggle to Build the Klondike Highway 1998-99 C. Michael Brown John K. Hajdukovich and the Tetlin Indians, 1924-1941 1997 Andrei V. Grinev and Richard Bland The Forgotten Expedition of Dmitrii Tarkhanov on the Copper River 1995-96 Timothy Rawson “I Hope the Sheep Will Bless You”: Belmore Brown, Adolph Murie, and the Wolves of Mount McKinley 1994 Jonathan R. Dean “Their Nature and Qualities Remain Unchanged”: Russian Occupation and Tlingit Resistance, 1807-1867 1993 Brian C. Hosmer “White Men Are Putting Their Hands Into Our Pockets: Metlakatla and the Struggle for Resource Rights in British Columbia, 1862-1887 1992 Frank Norris Cargoes North: Containerization and Alaska’s Postwar Shipping Crisis 1991 Elizabeth A. Tower Hazelet’s High Road to Chisana, Tapping a Gold Mine for Cordova 1990 Elizabeth A. Tower Captain David Henry Jarvis: Alaska’s Tragic Hero—Wickersham’s Victim 1989 Peter A. Coates Project Chariot: Alaskan Roots of Environmentalism 1988 Ann Fienup-Riordan The Martyrdom of Brother Hooker: Conflict and Conversion on the Kuskokwim
