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Vol. 25:2 ISSN 0160-8460 Summer 1997
James Madison and Jefferson Davis Papers Projects Win Awards
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations has awarded its prestigious Arthur S. Link Prize to Volume II of the Secretary of State Series of the Papers of James Madison. Editor J.C.A. Stagg and assistant editor Mary A. Hackett accepted the award on behalf of the Madison papers editorial team at the SHAFR luncheon held in conjunction with the American Historical Association's annual meeting in New York City this January.The award recognizes the high level of scholarship and erudition present in the volume, and the Madison papers project's overall contribution to history. The Link Prize, which is awarded not more than once every three years, is named for the distinguished editor and biographer of Woodrow Wilson.
The Museum of the Confederacy, located in Richmond, Virginia, has presented its Founders Award to Volume VIII of the Papers of Jefferson Davis. The award, given biennially, recognizes excellence in the editing of primary source materials relating to the period of the Confederacy. Volume VIII, which covers the year 1862, was edited by Lynda L. Crist, Mary Seaton Dix, and Kenneth H. Williams. Reviews of the volume have been laudatory. According to one reviewer, with the publication of Volume VIII, the project has "hit full stride" and maintains "a standard of excellence that surpasses" other publications.
This is not the first time a Jefferson Davis volume has won the Founders Award; Volume I did so in 1971. Other NHPRC-sponsored projects to receive this award include the U.S. Grant papers, the Andrew Johnson papers, the Frederick Law Olmsted papers, and the Freedom & Southern Society papers.
