Pacific Northwest History Award
Since 1986, when Murray Morgan was honored, this award has recognized an “individual who has made significant contributions to Pacific Northwest history.” It has been perceived as a lifetime achievement award for contributions “to the writing, preserving and promoting” of PNW history. The award includes lifetime Guild membership.
The annual award was given at the Friday evening banquet that opened each Annual Conference from 1986 until 1996. Beginning in 1997, the award has been given at the annual meeting of the membership. The award presentation and the honoree’s talk of how he or she came to do history remain the centerpiece of this meeting.
- 1986 Murray Morgan (1916-2000)
- 1987 Lucille McDonald (1898-1992)
- 1988 Robert E. Burke (1921-1998)
- 1989 Keith Murray (1910-2000)
- 1990 Charles P. LeWarne
- 1991 Richard C. Berner (d.2018)
- 1992 Doris Pieroth (1930-2018) and Jane Sanders
- 1994 Norman H. Clark (1925-2004)
- 1995 Esther Hall Mumford
- 1996 Ruth E. Kirk (d. 2018)
- 1997 Robert E. Ficken (d. 2018)
- 1998 John Frazier Henry
- 1999 [no award presented]
- 2000 Joyce Justice (1929-2008), and William H. Woodward
- 2001 Paul Dorpat
- 2002 John M. McClelland, Jr. (1915-2010)
- 2003 David L. Nicandri
- 2004 Karyl Winn (d. 2017)
- 2005 Dan Peterson (d. 2019)
- 2006 Lorraine C. McConaghy
- 2007 Walt Crowley (1947-2007)
- 2008 Jacqueline B. Williams
- 2009 Reed W. Jarvis (1933-2012)
- 2010 Charles G. Payton, Jr.
- 2011 Robert C. Carriker
- 2012 John M. Findlay
- 2013 Individual: Randy Schnabel & Institution: University of Washington Press
- 2014 Junius Rochester
- 2015 Ron Chew
- 2016 Judy Bentley
- 2017 Quintard Taylor
- 2018 Paul Spitzer
- 2019 Carla Rickerson
- 2019 Richard H. Engeman
- 2020 Karen Blair
- 2022 Densho and Lawrence Kreisman
- 2023 David F. Martin