Just over a month ago, I noted that USU’s Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, which describes itself as ‘a humanities outreach center in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences,’” had announced the 2005 winners of its Evans Biography Award and Handcart Award. The Evans Biography Award went to Richard Bushman’s biography of Joseph Smith, Rough Stone Rolling, and the Handcart Award went to Gregory Prince and Wm. Robert Wright’s biography of David O. McKay, David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism.
This Friday evening, the Mormon History Association will be announcing its 2006 award winners at its annual meeting in Casper, Wyoming, including the MHA Best Book Award, the Smith-Pettit Best First Book Award, the Steven F. Christensen Award for Best Documentary/Bibliography, the Ella Larsen Turner-Ella Ruth Turner Bergera Award for Best Biography, the J. Talmage Jones Awards of Excellence (”[a]warded for the two outstanding published articles on Mormon history”), and the T. Edgar Lyon Award for Best Article of the Year. (more…)