2021 Awards Ceremony
Friday, April 23, 2021, at 1 p.m.
Each year, the Oklahoma Historical Society recognizes authors, students, educators, historians, and organizations making significant contributions to the preservation and sharing of Oklahoma history. This year’s online program honors Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame inductees for 2020 and 2021 as well as annual award recipients.
Awards and Honors Presented
Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame Inductees, 2020
Cassandra Gaines
Melvena Heisch
Gaston Litton
Steve Ripley
Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame Inductees, 2021
Bruce Fisher
Jack Frank
Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History
Breaking Down Barriers: George McLaurin and the
Struggle to End Segregated Education by David W. Levy,
University of Oklahoma Press
Outstanding Thesis on Oklahoma History
“Culture on the Prairie: Celebrating Oklahoma’s Art
Museums and Their Contributors in the Twentieth
Century” by Bradley Fritch, University of Central
Oklahoma
Muriel H. Wright Award
Outstanding Article Published in The Chronicles of Oklahoma
“‘An Appeal to Reason’: Women’s Suffrage in Oklahoma
and Indian Territories, 1890–1907” by Linda Wilson
The Chronicles of Oklahoma (Volume 98, No. 2)
Joseph B. Thoburn Award
Outstanding Student Historian
Priya George, Jenks High School
William D. Pennington Award
Outstanding Social Studies Teacher
Greg Oppel, Edmond Memorial High School
Outstanding Regional Historical Museum
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
Outstanding Local OHS Support Group
Oklahoma Genealogical Society
