The Emerging Civil War Award for Service in Civil War Public History
Recognizes the work of an individual or organization that has made a significant impact on the field of public history in a way that better helps the general public connect with America’s defining event
- 2021 Gary W. Gallagher
- 2020 Dave Ruth
- 2019 John Coski
- 2018 D. P. Newton
- 2017 Dave Roth
- 2016 Ted Alexander
The Emerging Civil War Book Award
Presented to the best Civil War book published during the previous calendar year
- 2021 Winner: The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson
2020 Finalists: The Union Assaults on Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863 by Timothy B. Smith; A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac by Zachery Fry - 2020 Winner: The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in North Carolina, January – May 1864 by Hampton Newsome
2020 Finalists: Conquered by Larry Daniels; Bodies in Blue by Sarah Handley-Cousins - 2019 Winner: A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg by A. Wilson Greene 2019 Finalists: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight; Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat by Jonathan M. Steplyk
- 2018 Winner: On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864 by Gordon Rhea
2018 Finalists: Inglorious Passages: Noncombat Deaths in the Civil War by Brian Steel Wills; The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition, edited by John F. Marszalek - 2017 Winner: Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson by Timothy B. Smith
2017 Finalists: Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln & The Union’s War Governors by Stephen D. Engle; Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man in the Confederacy by Earl J. Hess
The Brig. Gen. Thomas Greely Stevenson Award
Presented to an individual or organization in recognition of outstanding service to ECW
- 2021 Sarah Keeney
- 2020 Jack Melton (Civil War News)
- 2019 C-SPAN
- 2018 Gregory A. Mertz
- 2017 Sylvia Frank Rodrigue
- 2016 Theodore P. Savas
The Emory Upton Award
Presented to a member of the Emerging Civil War community in recognition of outstanding service to ECW
- 2021 Paige Gibbons Backus
- 2020 Rob Orrison
- 2019 Sarah Kay Bierle
- 2018 Kristopher D. White
- 2017 Jennifer Mackowski
- 2016 Chris Mackowski
