The Committee for the Presbyterian Historical Society has announced its annual awards for 2001 in four categories of historical publications on American Presbyterian and Reformed subjects.
- The Francis Makemie Award in the amount of $500.00 for an outstanding published book in American Presbyterian/Reformed history was awarded to James K. Wellman, Jr., for The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism.
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999).
- The Robert Lee Stowe Award in the amount of $250.00 for the best published historical study of an American Presbyterian or Reformed congregation was awarded to House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, Minnesota, for A Journey of Hope, by David W. Johnson (2000).
- The Woodrow Wilson Award in the amount of $100.00, for the best published scholarly historical article pertaining to an American Presbyterian or Reformed topic, was awarded to David N. Livingstone and Mark A. Noll for "B. B.Warfield (1851-1921): A Biblical Inerrantist as Evolutionist," published in Isis, June 2000.
- A certificate of Honorable Mention for an article was awarded to Joe L. Coker for "The Sinott Case of 1910: The Changing Views of Southern Presbyterianism on Temperance, Prohibition, and the Spirituality of the Church," published in the Journal of Presbyterian History, Winter 1999.
- The Patricia Ann Burrus Spaulding Award in the amount of $200, for the best published scholarly historical article pertaining to an American Presbyterian or Reformed woman or women, was awarded to Julie Durway for "ÎThe field is endlessÌ: Hallie Paxson Winsborough and Interracial Work in the PCUS WomanÌs Auxiliary, 1912-1940, " published in the Journal of Presbyterian History, Fall 2000.
The Makemie Award is named for the Rev. Francis Makemie, organizer of the first American presbytery; the Stowe Award for an outstanding benefactor of the study of Presbyterian history at the congregational level; the Wilson Award for the twenty-eighth president of the United States, a historian and lifelong Presbyterian; and the Spaulding Award for a longtime student and benefactor of Presbyterian history.
The Makemie, Stowe, Wilson, and Spaulding Awards are given annually by the Presbyterian Historical Society.
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