Edgar Langsdorf Award - Past recipients
The Edgar Langsdorf Award for Excellence in Writing honors superior writing and is presented on an annual basis to authors of articles in the quarterly publication Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains. Find more information about this award.
Past Recipients
2019 - Christopher C. Lovett, “Bad Girls: Sex, Shame, Public Health and the Forgotten Legacy of Samuel J. Crumbine in Kansas, 1917-1955,” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, Volume 41, Spring 2018
2018 - Dr. Ian H. Munro, Merriam, “C. H. J. Taylor and Black Empowerment in Post-Reconstruction Kansas, 1877-1887,”
Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 40 (Autumn 2017)
2017 - Marilyn Irvin Holt, Abilene, “Over the Hill to the Poorhouse,” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 39 (Spring 2016)
2016 - Dr. Brie Swenson Arnold, "To Inflame the Mind of the North: Slavery Politics and the Sexualized Violence of Bleeding Kansas," Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 38 (Spring 2015)
2015 - Justine Greve, Grantville, “Language and Loyalty: The First World War and German Instruction at Two Kansas Schools,” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 37 (Autumn 2014)
2014 - Dr. Tai S. Edwards, Overland Park, “Disruption and Disease: The Osage Struggle to Survive in the Nineteenth-Century Trans-Missouri West,” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 36 (Winter 2013-2014)
2013 - Charles Delgadillo, “’A Pretty Weedy Flower’: William Allen White, Midwestern Liberalism, and the 1920s Culture War,” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 35 (Autumn 2012):
2012 - Benjamin Goossen, "Like a Brilliant Thread: Gender and Vigilante Democracy in the Kansas Coal Field, 1921-1922." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 34 (Autumn 2011): 206-223.
2011 - Christopher C. Lovett, "A Public Burning: Race, Sex, and the Lynching of Fred Alexander." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 33 (Summer 2010): 94-115.
2010 - William E. Foley, "Murder on the Santa Fe Trail: The United States v. See See Sah Mah and Escotah." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 32 (Summer 2009): 90-105.
2009 - Dr. Steven Trout, "The Western Front Comes to Kansas." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 31 (Autumn 2008): 194-211.
2008 - John N. Mack, “United We Stand: Law and Order on the Southeastern Kansas Frontier, 1866–1870.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 30 (Winter 2007/2008): 234–51.
2007 - Joseph B. Herring, "Selling the ‘Noble Savage’ Myth: George Catlin and the Iowa Indians in Europe, 1843-1845." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 29 (Winter 2006/2007): 226–245
2007 - Brooke Speer Orr, "Mary Elizabeth Lease: Gendered Discourse and Populist Party Politics in Gilded Age America." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 29 (Winter 2006/2007): 246–258.
2006 - Karen Manners Smith, "Father, Son, and Country on the Eve of War: William Allen White, William Lindsay White, and American Isolationism, 1940-1941." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 28 (Spring 2005): 30-43.
2005 - Frederick D. Seaton, "The Long Road Toward 'The Right Thing to Do': The Troubled History of the Winfield State Hospital." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 27 (Winter 2004/2005): 250-263.
2004 - Jeff R. Bremer, "A Species of Town--Building Madness': Quindaro and Kansas Territory, 1856-1862." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 26 (Autumn 2003): 156–171.
2003 - Kristen A. Tegtmeier Oertel, "'The Free Sons of the North' vs. 'The Myrmidons of Border Ruffianism':What Makes a Man in Bleeding Kansas?" Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 25 (Autumn 2002): 174–189.
2002 - Kevin J. Abing, "Before Bleeding Kansas: Christian Missionaries, Slavery, and the Shawnee Indians in Pre-Territorial Kansas, 1844-1854." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 24 (Spring 2001): 54–71.
2001 - Julie Courtwright, "Want to Build a Miracle City?: War Housing in Wichita," Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 23 (Winter 2000/2001): 218–239.
2000 - James R. Shortridge, "Kansas Barns in Time and Place." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 22 (Spring 1999): 2–25.
1999 - Jerry Bergman, "Steeped in Religion: President Eisenhower and the Influence of the Jehovah's Witnesses." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 21 (Autumn 1998).
1998 - Bill Cecil-Fronsman, "'Advocate the Freedom of White Men, As Well As That of the Negroes': The Kansas Free State and Antislavery Westerns in Territorial Kansas." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 20 (Summer 1997).
1997 - Nancy J. Hulston, "Our Schools Must Be Open to All Classes of Citizens: The Desegregation of the University of Kansas School of Medicine, 1938." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 19 (Summer 1996).
1996 - Milton S. Katz and Susan B. Tucker, "A Pioneer in Civil Rights: Esther Brown and the South Park, Desegregation Case of 1948." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 18 (Winter 1995-1996).
1995 - Patrick G. O'Brien, "Kansas at War: The Home Front, 1941 - 1945." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 17 (Spring 1994).
1994 - Homer E. Socolofsky, "The Bittersweet Tale of Sorghum Sugar," Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 16 (Winter 1993-1994).
1993 - Paul E. Wilson, "How the Law Came to Kansas," Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 15 (Spring 1992).
1992 - James R. Shortridge, "People of the New Frontier: Kansas Population Origins, 1865," Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 14 (Autumn 1991).
1991 – Daniel D. Holt, “An Unlikely Partnership and Service: Dwight Eisenhower, Mark Clark, and the Philipines.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 13 (Autumn 1990).
1989 - Patrick G. O'Brien, Kenneth J. Peake, and Barbara K. Robins, "It May Have Been Illegal, But It Wasn't Wrong': The Kansas 'Balkans' Bootlegging Culture, 1920-1940," Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 12 (Winter 1988 - 1989).
1988 - Donald F. Danker, "A High Price for a Lame Cow," Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 11 (Summer 1987).
1987 - James L. Forsythe, "George Grant of Victoria: Man and Myth, Kansas History 10 (Autumn 1986).
