Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History
Award Amount: $2,000
The Tullis Memorial Prize is awarded annually to the best book on Texas published during the calendar year. The winning author must be present at the TSHA Annual Meeting to receive the award. A certificate and $2,000 will be presented at the Fellows and Awards Banquet. Judges may withhold the award at their discretion.
Publishers should submit an entry form and four (4) copies of each entry published and copyrighted in 2024 or 2025 to the TSHA office by November 15, 2025. Books published after October 1, but copyrighted during the calendar year will be accepted until December 1.
All book award submissions must include an individual nomination form in the container transmitting the book in question; TSHA is not responsible for books that arrive without nomination forms or after the submission deadline.
Tullis Memorial PrizeTexas State Historical Association
PO Box 5428
Austin, TX 78763
The award was established in 1967 by her children, John L. Tullis and Mrs. W. D. (Jean Tullis) White Sr. The prize honors Mrs. Tullis for all that she accomplished on behalf of history while teaching at the University of Texas at Austin for thirty-five years and during her forty-year tenure as treasurer and corresponding Secretary of the Texas State Historical Association.
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Mail-in application form:
Book-Award-Submission-Form-v2025-03-20.pdf
