As part of our #VirtualAHA promotions, offered in conjunction with the 2021 virtual conference of the American Historical Association, Pacific Historical Review invites you to read the following award-winning scholarship published within its pages during the past year. These articles will be free to read for a limited time.

Jordan Biro Walters, “‘So Let Me Paint’: Navajo Artist R.C. Gorman and the Artistic, Native, and Queer Subcultures of San Francisco, California” (summer 2019), recipient of the following awards:

  • Jensen-Miller Award of the Western History Association for the best article in the field of women and gender in the North American West
  • Louis Knott Koontz Memorial Award of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (co-winner) for the most deserving contribution to the Pacific Historical Review.

Benjamin Madley, “California’s First Mass Incarceration System: Franciscan Missions, California Indians, and Penal Servitude, 1769–1836” (winter 2019), recipient of the following award:

  • Robert W. Cherny Article Award of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association for an outstanding article in U.S. labor and political history published in the Pacific Historical Review and/or by a member of the PCB-AHA.

Chris Suh, “‘America’s Gunpowder Women’: Pearl S. Buck and the Struggle for American Feminism, 1937–1941” (spring 2019), recipient of the following awards: 

  • Dorothy Ross Article Prize of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History for the best academic article in U.S. intellectual history published in the previous calendar year by an emerging scholar.
  • W. Turrentine Jackson (Article) Prize of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, awarded to a graduate student whose essay on a topic within the fields of concentration of the Pacific Historical Review has been adjudged to be of outstanding quality.

Elliot Young, “Caging Immigrants at McNeil Island Federal Prison, 1880–1940” (winter 2019), recipient of the following awards: 

  • James Madison Prize of the Society for History in the Federal Government for excellence in an article or essay that deals with any aspect of the federal government’s history.
  • Louis Knott Koontz Memorial Award of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (co-winner) for the most deserving contribution to the Pacific Historical Review.

Congratulations to all the award-winning authors!

This post is part of UC Press’s #VirtualAHA promotions. We invite you to explore other virtual AHA blog posts and our virtual AHA exhibit booth.