The Committee for the Presbyterian Historical Society has announced its annual awards for 2002 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 Robert E. Brown for Jonathan Edwards and the Bible. A certificate of honorable mention was given to William E. Phipps for William Sheppard: Congo's African American Livingstone.
- 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 the Montview Centellinial Book Committee, Sarah Hite, chair, for The Spirit of Montview, 1902-2002.
- 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 Maark A. Peterson for "Puritanism and Refinement in Early New England: Reflections on Communion Silver," William and Maryr Quarterly, v. 58 (April 2001).
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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