2020 Leadership in History Awards Winners Listed by State
The Albert B. Corey Award Vail Preservation Society, Vail, AZ, for their documentary project Voices of Vail
Alabama Name: Alabama Department of Archives and History Nomination: for the project We the People: Alabama’s Defining Documents
Arizona Name: Heard Museum Nomination: for the exhibit Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories
Colorado Name: Museum of Boulder with Quatrefoil Associates Nomination: for the exhibit The Boulder Experience
Connecticut Name: Colchester Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit Emerging from the Shadows: The Story of Colchester's School for Colored Children, 1803-1840
Name: Gunn Historical Museum Nomination: for the exhibit Washington, Connecticut: An American Story
Name: Old Saybrook Historical Society Nomination: for the special project Siege and Battles of Saybrook Fort and the Pequot War
District of Columbia Name: President Lincoln’s Cottage Nomination: for the multimedia project Q & Abe: A Podcast from President Lincoln's Cottage
Florida Name: Florida Historical Society Nomination: for the multimedia project Florida Frontiers Television: "Free Black Settlements in Spanish Colonial Florida"
Name: Victor Triay and the University Press of Florida Nomination: Local History honorable mention for the publication The Mariel Boatlift: A Cuban- American Journey
Georgia Name: Atlanta History Center Nomination: for the exhibit Cyclorama: The Big Picture
Name: The Columbus Museum Nomination: for the special project Making Conversation with Warren Williams Homes
Hawaii Name: Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives Nomination: for the public program "My Name is ʻŌpūkaha'ia" Travels to New England
Name: Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives Nomination: Local History, Small Press winner for the publication Kōkua Aku, Kōkua Mai: Chiefs, Missionaries, and Five Transformations of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Idaho Name: Dr. Janet E. Worthington and Mary Ann Arnold Nomination: for the Foote Park Interpretive Center
Illinois Name: Elmhurst History Museum Nomination: for the exhibit Worlds of Wonder
Name: Glencoe Historical Society Nomination: for the special project The Glencoe Sesquicentennial Celebration
Name: Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Nomination: for the Stories of Survival: Object. Image. Memory. traveling exhibition
Name: Joliet Area Historical Museum Nomination: for the exhibit Art from the Ashes
Name: Magda Brown Nomination: for more than twenty-five years of volunteer work speaking about Holocaust history and tolerance for the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Name: McLean County Museum of History Nomination: for the special project The Extending Excellence Campaign
Indiana Name: Minnetrista Nomination: for the public program In My Hands, In My Heart
Maryland Name: Historic St. Mary’s City Nomination: for the public program Sin and Scandal at St. Mary's: An Adults Only Tour
Massachusetts Name: Massachusetts Historical Society Nomination: for the Housing as History program series
Name: Somerville Museum, Charan Devereaux, and participating congregations, scholars, photographers, filmmakers, musicians, sound engineers, and artists Nomination: for the special project Faith in a City: Exploring Religion in Somerville, Massachusetts
Michigan Name: Detroit Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit A Gallery for the Community, of the Community, by the Community
Minnesota Name: Golden Valley Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit No Place Like Home
Name: Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Nomination: for the exhibit Mdewakanton: Dwellers of the Spirit Lake
Name: St. Paul Saints Nomination: for the City of Baseball Museum
Name: West Central Minnesota Historical Association Nomination: for the exhibit How the Great War Hit Home in West Central Minnesota: World War I traveling exhibit
Missouri Name: Guadalupe Centers, University of Missouri-Kansas City History Department, University of Missouri-Kansas City Latinx & Latin American Studies, Tico Productions, and Kansas City Public Library Nomination: for the special project Kansas City’s Guadalupe Centers: A Century of Serving the Latino Community This nomination is also the recipient of a HIP (History in Progress) Award.
Name: Ronald “G.Wiz” Butts and the Missouri Historical Society Nomination: for the public program Background Check: The Story of St. Louis and E. St. Louis Hip-Hop 1979-1995 Vol I
Montana Name: The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula Nomination: for the exhibit No Enemy Movement Observed: The Vietnam War Through the Eyes of a Frenchtown Marine
Nebraska Name: History Nebraska Nomination: for the exhibit Votes for Women: Nebraska's Suffrage Story
New Hampshire Name: Hopkinton Historical Society Nomination: for the public program Putney Hill Cemetery Walk
New Mexico Name: Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center Nomination: for Addiction/Recovery: Military Families Cope—an experiential exhibit and ongoing workshops
New York Name: J. M. Cassidy & Andrea Perdicho Nomination: for the public program The Letters: Voices from the Great War
North Carolina Name: North Carolina Museum of History Nomination: for the exhibit QuiltSpeak: Uncovering Women's Voices Through Quilts
Name: North Carolina Museum of History Nomination: Local History winner for the publication QuiltSpeak: Uncovering Women's Voices Through Quilts
Ohio Name: Massillon Museum Nomination: for the exhibit Moniker: Identity Lost and Found
Name: Wood County Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit For Comfort & Convenience: Public Charity in Ohio By Way of the Poor Farm
Oklahoma Name: National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Nomination: for the exhibit Caballeros y Vaqueros
Oregon Name: Oregon Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit Experience Oregon
Pennsylvania Name: Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site Nomination: for the public program Hidden Lives Illuminated This nomination is also the recipient of a HIP (History in Progress) Award.
Name: Heinz History Center Nomination: for the special project The Vietnam War: 1945-1975
Name: Museum of the American Revolution Nomination: for the exhibit Hamilton Was Here: Rising Up in Revolutionary Philadelphia
Name: Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Nomination: for the special project Spit Spreads Death: the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Philadelphia
Name: Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society Nomination: for the exhibit Destination: Northampton County
Name: Pearl S. Buck International Nomination: for Pearl S. Buck: Taking Action
South Carolina Name: Coastal Carolina University and the Horry County Museum Nomination: for the exhibit Printing the Past: SC in 3D This nomination is also the recipient of a HIP (History in Progress) Award.
Name: Culture and Heritage Museums and Patricia V. Veasey Nomination: Local History, Small Press honorable mention for the publication A Relentless Spirit: Catharine Ladd, Southern Educator, Entrepreneur, and Author
South Dakota Name: South Dakota State Historical Society Museum Nomination: for the exhibit Silent Silos: South Dakota's Missile Field
Tennessee Name: Grassmere Historic Farm at the Nashville Zoo aand the Tennessee State Library and Archives Nomination: for the special project Nashville To Miami To Havana: Cuba, Castro and the Croft Family
Name: Pink Palace Family of Museums Nomination: for the exhibit Making Memphis: 200 Years of Community
Name: Tennessee State Museum Nomination: for the exhibit Let's Eat! Origins and Evolutions of Tennessee Food
Utah Name: The Spike150 Organization and the Utah Department of Heritage & Arts Nomination: for the special project Utah’s Spike150 Exhibits: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of USA's First Transcontinental Railroad
Virginia Name: Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Nomination: for the exhibit Tenacity: Women in Jamestown and Early Virginia Washington Name: Washington State Historical Society Nomination: for the exhibit Unlocking McNeil's Past: The Prison, The Place, The People
Wisconsin Name: The Wisconsin Farms Oral History Project (UW-Whitewater, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Madison, and UW-Milwaukee) Nomination: for the special project The Lands We Share Traveling Exhibition and Public Dialogue Tour