Gail and Chuck Swanlund Award for Best Texas History Anthology

Competition for the award shall be open to any professional historian, graduate student, or vocational historian;

The award will be judged on the following criteria:

• The work must consist primarily of original academic essays, with no more than two previously published chapters. All chapters must be properly annotated and peer reviewed.
• The dominant theme of the work should be some aspect of Texas/Southwestern history.
• The work should present a variety of perspectives on the topic.
• Topics should be pre-21st Century (in other words, topics from prior to 2000).
• The work should have the potential to foster further research on the topic(s)
• The award would be open to any edited volume published within two years of the award year.

The winning author must be present at the TSHA Annual Meeting to receive the award. A certificate and $1,000 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.