{{for, the defunct American history prize, Justin Winsor Prize (history) The Justin Winsor Prize is awarded by the Library History Round Table of the

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for the best library history essay. The award was established in 1978 and named for the American Library Association's first president,

Justin Winsor Justin Winsor (January 2, 1831October 22, 1897) was an American writer, librarian, and historian. His historical work had strong bibliographical and cartographical elements. He was an authority on the early history of North America and was elec ...

. Winsor (1831–1896) was a prominent writer, historian, and the long-time Librarian at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

Award winners

*1979 Dennis Thomison, ''The Private Wars of Chicago's Big Bill Thompson'' *1980 Not awarded *1981 Mary Niles Maack, ''Women Librarians in France: The First Generation'' *1982 Pamela Spence Richards, ''Aryan Librarianship: Academic and Research Libraries Under Hitler'' & Wayne A. Wiegand, ''British Propaganda in American Libraries, 1914-1917'' *1983 Robert S. Martin, ''Maurice F. Tauber's Louis Round Wilson: An Analysis of a Collaboration'' *1984 Larry Yeatman, ''Literary Culture and the Role of Libraries in Democratic America: Baltimore, 1815-1940'' *1985 Not awarded *1986 Ronald Blazek, ''Adult Education and Economic Opportunity in the Gilded Age: The Library, the Chautauqua, and the Railroads in DeFuniak Springs, Florida'' *1987 Rosalee McReynolds, ''American Nervousness and Turn of the Century Librarians'' *1988 Brother Thomas O'Connor, ''Library Service to the American Committee to Negotiate Peace and to the Preparatory Inquiry, 1917-1919'' *1989 Frederick J. Stielow, ''Librarians, Warriors, and Rapprochement: Carl Milam, Archibald MacLeish, and World War II'' *1990 John Richardson, ''Teaching General Reference Work: The Essential Paradigm, 1890-1900'' *1991 Margaret Stieg, ''Post-War Purge of the German Public Libraries, Democracy, and the American Reaction'' *1992 Joanne E. Passet, ''Men in a Feminized Profession: The Male Librarian, 1887-1921'' *1993 Not awarded *1994 Not awarded *1995 Not awarded *1996 Wayne A. Wiegand, ''The Amherst Method: The Origins of the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme'' *1997 Cheryl Knott Malone, ''Houston's Colored Carnegie Library, 1907-1922

*1998 Not awarded *1999 Christine Pawley, ''Advocate for Access: Lutie Stearns and the Traveling Libraries of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission, 1895-1914'' *2000 Not awarded *2001 Not awarded *2002 Marek Sroka ''The Destruction of Jewish Libraries and Archives in Crakow (Krakow) During World War II'' *2003 Not awarded *2004 Joyce M. Latham ''Clergy of the Mind: William S. Learned, the Carnegie Corporation, and the American Library Association'' *2005 Donald C. Boyd ''The Book Women of Kentucky: The WPA

Pack Horse Library Project The Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program that delivered books to remote regions in the Appalachian Mountains between 1935 and 1943. Women were very involved in the project which eventually had 30 different ...

, 1935-1943'' *2006 Not awarded *2007 Dr. Jean L. Preer ''Promoting Citizenship: Librarians Help Get Out the Vote in the 1952 Presidential Election'' *2008 Jeremy Dibbell ''A Library of the Most Celebrated & Approved Authors: The First Purchase Collection of Union College'' *2009 Richard LeComte ''Writers Blocked: The Debate Over Public Lending Right in the United States During the 1980s'' *2010 Dr. Pamela R. Bleisch ''Spoilsmen and Daughters of the Republic: Political Interference in the Texas State Library during the tenure of Elizabeth Howard West, 1911-1925'' *2011 Cody White ''Rising from the Ashes: Lessons Learned from the Impact of Proposition 13 on Public Libraries in California'' *2012 Ashley Maynor ''All the World’s Memory: Implications for the Internet as Archive and Portal for Our Cultural Heritage'' *2013 Nicola Wilson ''Boots Book-Lovers' library, the Novel, and James Hanley's The Furys (1935)'' *2014 Kate Stewart ''The Man in the Rice Paddies Had Something to READ: Military Libraries and Intellectual Freedom in the Vietnam War'' *2015 Sharon McQueen ''The Feminization of Ferdinand: Perceptions of Gender Nonconformity in a Classic Children’s Picture Book'' *2016 Steven A. Knowlton ''Since I was a citizen, I had the right to attend the library: the key role of the public library in the civil rights movement in Memphis'' *2017 Alexander Ames ''The 'Spirit of The Fatherland': German-American Culture And Community in the Library and Archive of the German Society of Pennsylvania, 1817-2017'' *2018 Not awarded *2019 Steven Knowlton ''A Rapidly Escalating Demand: Academic Libraries and the Birth of Black Studies Programs'' *2020 Julie Park ''Infrastructure Story: The Los Angeles Central Library’s Architectural History'' *2021 Jennifer Burek Pierce ''More Than a Room with Books: The Development of Author Visits for Young People in Mid-Century U.S. Public Libraries''

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