Oklahoma Historical Society Awards Banquet

March 24, 2022

Guest speaker David Holt and emcee Karen Keith

The 2022 Oklahoma Historical Society Awards Banquet was held Thursday, March 24, 2022, at the Oklahoma History Center. Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt was the guest speaker and Tulsa County Commissioner Karen Keith was the emcee.

Proceeds from this event were matched by the Kirkpatrick Family Fund and benefitted the Dr. Bob Blackburn Collections Endowment Fund. This endowment provides the OHS with funds to collect and preserve archival collections and artifacts that tell the story of Oklahoma.

Awards and Honors Presented

Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame Inductees
Dr. Bob L. Blackburn
Dr. Davis Joyce
Justice Yvonne Kauger
Dr. Theda Perdue

Guardians of History Honorees
Senator Darcy Jech
Representative Carl Newton

E. E. Dale Award
Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History
A Life on Fire: Oklahoma’s Kate Barnard, Connie Cronley (OU Press, 2021)

Linda Williams Reese Award
Outstanding Dissertation on Oklahoma History
“Pei on the Prairie: Urban Renewal in Oklahoma City, 1960–1990,”
Zachary A. Anderson, University of Central Oklahoma

Bruce T. Fisher Award
Outstanding Oklahoma History Project
“Ketsimnanek (Ancestors),” Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center

Muriel H. Wright Award
Outstanding Article Published in The Chronicles of Oklahoma
“‘Hell’s an Ice Box’: The Myth of Tommy Atkins and the Oil Field that Transformed Oklahoma,” Russell Cobb,
The Chronicles of Oklahoma, volume 99, no. 2 (Summer 2021)

Honorable Mention
“The Plot to Kill ‘Diamond Dick’ Rowland and the Tulsa Race Massacre,” Randy Hopkins,
The Chronicles of Oklahoma, volume 99, no. 1 (Spring 2021)

William D. Pennington Award
Outstanding Social Studies Teacher
Suzette V. Chang

Joseph B. Thoburn Award
Outstanding Student Historian
Kennedi Smith

National Register of Historic Places Designations
Federal Building and US Court House, Oklahoma City (designated September 8, 2021)
George and Margaret Miller House, Ponca City (designated December 6, 2021)
Liberty Federal Savings and Loan Association Building, Enid (designated December 7, 2021)
Edwards-Hardaway Homestead and Cemetery, Red Oak (designated December 7, 2021)

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