AAS and Lucia Knoles Receive 2007 AASLH Award
NASHVILLE, TN - June, 2007 -- The American Association for State and
Local History (AASLH) proudly announces that the American Antiquarian
Society and Lucia Knoles are the recipients of an Award of Merit from
the AASLH Leadership in History Awards for the website Northern Visions
of Race, Region, and Reform. The AASLH Leadership in History Awards,
now in its 62nd year, is the most prestigious recognition for
achievement in the preservation of state and local history. Awards for
2007 represent 72 organizations and individuals from the United States.
The AASLH awards program was initiated in 1945 to establish and
encourage standards of excellence in the collection, preservation, and
interpretation of state and local history throughout the United States.
The AASLH Leadership in History Awards not only honor significant
achievement in the field of state and local history, but also brings
public recognition of the opportunities for small and large
organizations, institutions, and programs to make contributions in this
arena.
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Preview the new AAS online resource, Northern Visions of Race, Region and Reform in the Press
and Letters of Freedmen and Freedmen's Teachers in the Civil War
Era,
created by Professor Lucia Knoles of Assumption College working from
primary resources at the American Antiquarian Society. It will soon be
available on
the AAS website
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