Award Recipients
We have awarded 796 awards, prizes, and fellowships in the past 129 years.
🏅 2013 Mary Jon and J. P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award
🏅 2024 John W. Crain Texas History Education Award
Patricia Ritchie is a social studies teacher for grade seven at ILTexas North Richland Hills K8.
🏅 2018 Mary Jon and J. P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award
Allen Lee Hamilton has been Professor of Texas History at St. Philips College for 32 years and has been teaching in college for 42 years. He did his Bachelor’s and Master’s work at the University of Texas at Arlington and his doctoral work at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of six books, including “The Sentinel of the Southern Plains: Fort Richardson and the Northwest Texas Frontier, 1866-1878”, a novel, and twenty published articles in scholarly journals, books, and magazines. Professor Hamilton has been awarded four University of Texas National Institute for System and Organizational Development Medals for College Teaching Excellence, has been nominated three times for the Minnie Stevens Piper Outstanding Professor of the Year in Texas Award and has been named Professor of the Year twice at St. Philip’s College. He has given hundreds of lectures to academic and civil organizations all over the state and has been the keynote presenter for the Road Scholars of America presentations in San Antonio for ten years.
🏅 2010 Mary Jon and J. P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award
🏅 1989 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
🏅 1969 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
🏅 1988 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History
Randolph B. Campbell was Regents' Professor of History at the University of North Texas (UNT). He earned his B.A. (1961), M.A. (1963), and Ph.D. (1966) from the University of Virginia. In 2013 he became the inaugural Lone Star Chair in Texas History, having been named Lone Star Professor in 2011 after completion of the first phase of creation of the chair. Establishing the chair was a project of TSHA and UNT collaboration as part of their affiliation. The Lone Star Chair also was charged to serve as Chief Historian. He was president of the Texas State Historical Association from 1993-94, and served as Chief Historian from 2008-17.
His previous books include Gone To Texas: A History of the Lone Star State (2003), An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865, (1989), and numerous other books, chapters, and articles on Texas history.
🏅 2003 Mary Jon and J. P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award
Danny Corbett joined the TSHA staff in September of 2019 as a part-time employee in the Education Department serving as a Co-Coordinator of the Texas History Day program.
Danny lives in Copperas Cove where he taught seventh grade Texas History for many years and was a long-time Junior Historian sponsor. Danny holds a Bachelor's Degree from Indiana University and a Master's in Education from Tarleton State University.
Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm, Ph.D.
🏅 2002 Mary Jon and J. P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award
Dr. Carolina Castillo Crimm was born in Mexico City and came to the United States in 1963 at the age of 17. She completed degrees at the University of Miami, Texas Tech, and a Ph.D. at the University of Texas in Austin. She has taught for 40 years in various fields and has just retired from Sam Houston State University as a Professor Emeritus. She currently shares her love of history through her tour company and presentations both nationally and internationally.
🏅 1973 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
🏅 1975 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History
🏅 2024 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research
Ron Tyler is the retired Director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas (2006-2011). He is former Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin (1986-2006) and Director of the Texas State Historical Association and the Center for Studies in Texas History at the University (1986-2004), during which time he was the editor-in-chief of The New Handbook of Texas (6 vols.; 1996 and now online) and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Before moving to Austin, he taught at Austin College in Sherman (1967-1969) and served for eighteen years as Curator of History and Director of Public Programs at the Carter. He was born in Temple, Texas, in 1941 and is a graduate of Rogers High School (1960), Temple College (A.A., 1962), Abilene Christian College (B.S., 1964) and Texas Christian University (M.A., 1966; Ph.D. 1968). He married Paula Eyrich in 1974.
He has published a number of works in the areas of American, Western American, Texas, and Mexican art and history. His Native Americans: The Prints of Karl Bodmer, George Catlin, and McKenney & Hall is in press with Taschen publishers in Germany. Major publications include
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Texas Lithographs: A Century of History in Images (University of Texas Press, 2023),
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The Art of Texas: 250 Years (editor, TCU Press, 2019), won the Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters, 2020,
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Western Art, Western History: Collected Essays (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019),
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Texas: Crossroads of North America (2nd edition, Cengage, 2016), co-author with Jesús F. de la Teja and Nancy Beck Young,
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Texas Bird’s-Eye Views (2006, http://birdseyeviews.org),
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Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist as Explorer (Gerald Peters Gallery, 1999),
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The New Handbook of Texas (6 vols.; 1996), editor-in-chief,
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Prints of the West (Fulcrum Publishing, 1994), won the Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award for Book Making the Most Significant Contribution to Knowledge, Texas Institute of Letters, 1995; and Outstanding Book of the Year from the American Historical Print Collectors Society, 1995.
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Audubon's Great National Work: The Royal Octavo Edition of The Birds of America (University of Texas Press, 1993),
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Wanderings in the Southwest in 1855, by J. D. B. Stillman (Artur H. Clark, 1990), editor,
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Views of Texas: The Watercolors of Sarah Ann Hardinge, 1852- 1856 (Amon Carter Museum, 1988),
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American Frontier Life: Early Western Painting and Prints (Abbeville Press, 1987), editor,
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Visions of America: Pioneer Artists in a New Land (Thames & Hudson, 1983), selected as a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate and reprinted as American Canvas: Pioneer Artists in a new Land (1990),
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Prints of the American West (Amon Carter Museum, 1983), editor,
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Texas Museums: A Guide, with Paula Eyrich Tyler (University of Texas Press, 1983),
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Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail (editor, Amon Carter Museum, 1982),
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Posada’s Mexico (editor, Library of Congress, 1979),
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The Rodeo of John Addison Stryker (Encino Press, 1977),
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The Mexican War: A Lithographic Record (TSHA, 1975),
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The Image of America in Caricature and Cartoon (Amon Carter Museum, 1975),
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The Cowboy (Ridge Press and William Morrow and Company, 1975; translated into French and published by Fernand Nathan, 1976),
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The Big Bend: A History of the Last Texas Frontier (National Park Service, 1975, reprinted by Texas A&M University Press, 1996-), won the Coral Horton Tullis Award for Best Book of the Year from the Texas State Historical Association, 1976,
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The American West (1974), with Peter H. Hassrick, published by the United States Information Agency in Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, and Czech to accompany a USIA-sponsored exhibition,
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The Slave Narratives of Texas (with Lawrence Murphy, Encino Press, 1974; reprinted by State House Press, 1997-), and
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Santiago Vidaurri and the Southern Confederacy (1973; translated into Spanish and published the Archivo General del Estado de Nuevo León, 2002).
He has also written a number of articles and edited the Southwestern Historical Quarterly from 1986 to 2004.
Among the many exhibitions that he has organized is The Art of Texas: 250 Years (TCU Center for Texas Studies and Witte Museum, San Antonio, 2019), Bird’s-eye Views of Texas (Amon Carter Museum, 2006), and Nature’s Classics: John James Audubon’s Birds and Animals at the Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas (1992).
Honors include the Gordon Bakken Award of Merit for outstanding service to the field of western history and to the Western History Association, from the Western History Association, (2016), Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (2014), the Capitan Alonzo de León medal for contributions to Mexican history from the Sociedad Nuevoleonesa de Historia, Geografía, y Estadística (2002). His The Art of Texas: 250 Years won the Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book on Texas from the Texas Institute of Letters (2019); Prints of the West won Dallas Public Library Best Contribution to Knowledge Award from the Texas Institute of Letters (1995) and Outstanding Publication of the Year from the American Historical Print Collections Society (1995); and The Big Bend won the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Texas Book of the Year from the Texas State Historical Association (1976). Austin College, where he taught from 1967-1969 awarded him a D.H.L. in 1986, and the College of Arts & Sciences at Abilene Christian University named him a Distinguished Alumni in 1995.
Tyler served as president of the Tarrant County Historical Society, as a member of the Texas Historical Records Advisory Board, appointed by the governor, 1988-1993, and was a member of the curatorial review team for exhibitions for the opening exhibition of the Bullock Texas State History Museum, State Preservation Board, Austin, 1998-2001. He is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society (1986), the Philosophical Society of Texas (1988, serving as president in 2013-14), the Institute of Texas Letters, and Phi Beta Kappa (1978). He is listed in Who’s Who in America as well as a number of other biographical dictionaries.
🏅 2014 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
🏅 2008 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
🏅 2025 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book on Texas History and Culture
🏅 2025 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
Light T. Cummins is the Guy M. Bryan Chair of American History, Emeritus, at Austin College and a former State Historian of Texas. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including award-winning biographies of Emily Austin Bryan Perry and Allie Victoria Tennant. Cummins has published numerous articles in historical journals and is a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association. He earned his Ph.D. at Tulane University after serving as an officer in the United States Air Force.
🏅 2014 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
🏅 1998 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
🏅 1998 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History
Rebecca Sharpless is professor of history at Texas Christian University. Her most recent book is Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865–1960.
