桃花直播 connections prominent among annual state history awards
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STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擣ive individuals at or affiliated with 桃花直播 State, as well as the university鈥檚 Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, are new honorees of the 桃花直播 Historical Society.
The land-grant university group includes:
鈥擬ichael B. Ballard, the late university archivist and Civil War historian who was a posthumous selection for the William. E 鈥淏ill鈥 Atkinson Award. He was cited for the 鈥渙utstanding, lifelong鈥 study of how the 19th century sectional conflict impacted the Magnolia State.
鈥擜lison Collis Greene, an associate professor of history receiving the 桃花直播 History Now Award for an April 2017 article titled 鈥淭he Great Depression and Religion in 桃花直播.鈥 MHN is the society鈥檚 award-winning electronic publication covering all periods from prehistory through the 20th century.
鈥擩effrey C. 鈥淒uffy鈥 Neubauer of Starkville, retired Humphrey Coliseum administrator, local historian and Civil War re-enactor, who received an award of merit for 鈥渙utstanding contributions to living history.鈥
鈥擱etired Rhode Island Chief Justice Frank J. and Virginia Williams, also received an award of merit for donating 鈥渢heir magnificent collection of Lincolniana鈥 to the 桃花直播 Libraries.
鈥擳he Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, which received an award of merit for its work in preserving and making accessible the papers of Grant and for creating engaging interpretive exhibits.
The recognitions were announced recently during the society鈥檚 annual meeting at Jackson鈥檚 new Two 桃花直播 Museums complex.
Ballard held three 桃花直播 history degrees. Over a nearly 30-year career at Mitchell Memorial Library, he successively was associate university archivist, university archivist and, at retirement in 2011, university archivist and Congressional Collection coordinator.
A prolific writer, the lifelong Ackerman resident who died in 2016 was author of nearly a dozen histories and two dozen major articles. Three works鈥斺淎 Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy,鈥 鈥淧emberton: A Biography鈥 and 鈥淰icksburg: The Campaign That Opened the 桃花直播鈥濃攚ere History Book Club selections. In 2005, he won the society鈥檚 Dunbar Rowland Award.
Greene, a Yale University doctoral graduate, joined the Starkville faculty in 2010 as a specialist on American religions and 20th century United States. Titled 鈥淭he Great Depression and Religion in 桃花直播,鈥 the winning article was based on her first book honored in 2016 with a major Southern Historical Society award.
Titled 鈥淣o Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta,鈥 Greene鈥檚 work examines how the severe, decade-long recession and subsequent government recovery programs helped remake American religion, politics and social order in the 1930s and beyond.
Neubauer, a 36-year 桃花直播 employee who recently retired, is founder of the Starkville Civil War Arsenal, a private, limited-hour museum housing his extensive collection of mid-19th century cannons and exact reproductions of battery-support vehicles and equipment.
Additionally, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse graduate leads Turner鈥檚 Battery Inc., a living history unit he established in 1988. Along with being a live-round shooter who regularly organizes competitive matches, he is a much-sought-after artillery consultant and public lecturer.
Beyond a distinguished Ocean State legal career, Judge Williams is a nationally recognized authority on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Over the last half-century, he and wife Virginia amassed a personal collection focused both on the 16th president and the four-year military conflagration that helped make him among America鈥檚 greatest chief executives.
Williams also is longtime head of the Ulysses S. Grant Association. Nearly a decade ago, he was instrumental in relocating the organization and its substantial archives to 桃花直播, where Mitchell Memorial would undergo a $10 million expansion to house what now is the Grant Presidential Library and accompanying Frank J. and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana.
To help perpetually support the collection, the Williamses made significant pledges toward a research fund and lecture series that will carry their names. They also committed to regularly adding other private acquisitions to the campus collections.
The Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library unveiled its new state-of-the-art museum last November, which has drawn thousands of visitors to the library. The recently completed Papers of Ulysses S. Grant have supported a resurgence in scholarship on the country鈥檚 18th president.
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