Joel Palmer Award
Each year, the Oregon Historical Quarterly presents the Joel Palmer Award to the author of the best article published in the journal during the previous year. The award was established by Omar C. "Slug" Palmer and William J. Lang in honor of their ancestor Joel Palmer, an Oregon pioneer. It is voted on by members of the Quarterly's Editorial Advisory Board. In addition to the first-place prize, which carries with it $300, two authors are presented honorable mention.
2018 Joel Palmer Award
The first-place winner of the 2018 Joel Palmer Award is Kimberly Jensen’s “Women's 'Positive Patriotic Duty' to Participate: The Practice of Female Citizenship in Oregon and the Expanding Surveillance State during the First World War,” published in the Summer 2017 issue. Our Honorable Mentions go to Carol Silverman’s “Oregon Roma (Gypsies): A Hidden History,” published in the Winter 2017 issue, and James V. Walker...
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The first-place winner of the 2017 Joel Palmer Award is Douglas Deur’s “The Making of Seaside's "Indian Place": Contested and Enduring...
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The first-place winner of the 2016 Joel Palmer Award is "Criminal Operations": The First Fifty Years of Abortion Trials in Portland,...
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