Awards bestowed for Mormon history

PROVO — The Mormon History Association has handed out multiple awards during its 39th annual conference, "Mormon Cultural Landscapes and Material Culture," that concludes today.

Those awards include:

Best Book Award: Armand L. Mauss, "All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage"

Smith-Pettit Best First Book Award: Ethan Yorgason, "Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region"

Ella Turner-Ella Bergera Best Biography Award: Allan K. Parrish: "John A. Widtsoe, A Biography"

Steven F. Christensen Best Documentary Award: Charles M. Hatch and Todd M. Compton, "A Widow's Tale: The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney"

Thomas Rice King Family History Award: William G. Hartley, "Stand By My Servant Joseph: The Story of the Joseph Knight Family and the Restoration"

T. Edgar Lyon Best Article of the Year Award: Paul H. Peterson and Ronald W. Walker, "Brigham Young's Word of Wisdom Legacy"

J. Talmage Jones Awards of Excellence (tie): William P. MacKinnon, "Epilogue to the Utah War: Impact and Legacy," and "Like Splitting a Man Up His Backbone: The Territorial Dismemberment of Utah, 1850-1896"; Mark L. Staker, "Thou Art the Man: Newell K. Whitney in Ohio"

Juanita Brooks Best Graduate Paper (tie): Patrick Q. Mason, "God and the People: Theodemocracy in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism"; David J. Howlett, "The RLDS Church and Late Twentieth-Century American Spiritual Transformations"

Juanita Brooks Best Undergraduate Paper: Julina Magnusson, "The Effect of the Utah War on Mormon Emigration"

Certificate of Merit: Douglas Geilman, "Le Reflecteur: Early Voices in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Switzerland"

Thomas L. Kane Award: Jere L. Krakow and Kay Threlkeld

Leonard J. Arrington Award: Jessie L. Embry