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The Willie Parker Peace History Book Awards

The Willie Parker Peace History Book Awards are given to encourage the writing and publication of the history of a North Carolina county, institution or individual.  Works are divided into the categories of History and Research. This category is open to all who are writing about North Carolina. The writer need not be a resident of the State of North Carolina.  

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2008 Awards

Linda Sadler & Kevin Jenkins, Beaufort / Raleigh, NC, 

Postcard History Series: Carteret County

Karen J. Hall & FRIENDS of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Inc., Colfax, NC

Images of America: Building the Blue Ridge Parkway

Fred Hobson, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC

Off the Rim - Basketball and Other Religions in a Carolina Childhood

Maxine McCall, Drexel, NC

They Won't Hang A Woman

Allen T. Hyde, Newland, NC

The Linville Gorge Hiker's Guide

Webster Lupton, Fayetteville, NC

Place to Play, Glory Days of Baseball in Angier, NC

Carol Moore, McLeansville, NC

Images of America, Greensboro's Confederate Soldiers

Lynn Salsi & Burke Salsi, Jr., Greensboro, NC

The Campus History Series: North Carolina State University

Lynn Salsi, Greensboro, NC

Then & Now Series: Greensboro

Glenn Bolick, Lenoir, NC

If This Ain't True, Grits Ain't Groceries - Appalachian Sayings and Stories

Donna Akers Warmuth, Boone, NC

Images of America; Blowing Rock

Images of America; Boone

Vina Hutchinson Farmer, Manassas, VA

Postcard History Series: New Bern

Ray McCallister, Richmond, VA

Wrightsville Beach - The Luminous Island

Michael C. Hardy, Crossnore, NC

Remembering North Carolina Confederates

Remembering Avery County - Old Tales from North Carolina's Youngest 

County

Larry R. Clark, Morganton, NC

Burke County, North Carolina - Historic Tales from the Gateway to the Blue

Ridge

Bradley R. Foley & Adrian L. Whicker

Thomasville & Rural Hall, NC, The Civil War Ends - Greensboro, April 1865

Jennifer Bean Bower, Winston-Salem, NC

Tales of Murder, Mystery & Mayhem

Terrell T. Garren, Mills River, NC

Mountain Myth - Unionism in Western North Carolina

Barbara Case Summerlin, Mount Airy, NC

The Legacy of Ada - A Mountain Woman; Wisdom Cometh With Age

Bernard W. Cruse, Jr., Concord, NC

Grave Sights of Cabarrus County, NC, Book 8 and 9

Cabarrus County Tax Assessments 1860 and 1863

Kathryn L. Bridges, Larry W. Hayer, Bernard W. Cruse, Rock Hill SC, Kannapolis

Cabarrus County, North Carolina, 1890 Tax Scroll

Clayton Brown Alexander & W. Keats Sparrow, Kinston, NC

"The First of Patriots and Best of Men": Richard Caswell in Public Life

Bob Plott, Statesville, NC

Strike & Stay - The Story of the Plott Hound

Tom J. Edwards & William K. Rowland, Kinston, NC

Through the Eyes of Soldiers: The Battle of Wyse Fork, Kinston, NC

March 7-10, 1865

Robin Spencer Lattimore, Rutherfordton, NC

Dwelling in Beulah Land - A Celebration of Rural Church Life

J. L. Mashburn, Enka, NC

Hominy Valley, The Golden Years

Lawrence Koster, Whispering Pines, NC

The Hotels & Boarding Houses of Moore County, NC, 1870-1950

David Coulson, Hatboro, PA

Magic on the Mountain, Appalachian State's Amazing Journey to the 2005 

NCAA IAA Football Championship

Blowing Rock Historical Society, Blowing Rock, NC. Post Cards of Historic 

Blowing Rock, Vol. 2

Harold Cleveland Jenkins, Concord, NC

Memories of a Concord School Boy

Brenda Messer & Wayne A. Shaw, NC / TN

Haywood County, NC, Marriage Records, 1808-1903

Haywood County, NC, Marriage Records, 1904-1936

Neal D. Wilfong, Cleveland, NC

Death Notices, Memorials & Obituaries from the Bethesda Beacon

Marimar McNaughton & Fiona King Finch, Wilmington / Scotland

Columbia on the Scuppernong - Historic Homes and the Stories they Tell

Ruth Wike Rufty, Taylorsville, NC

Snapshots of World War II

Blaka Y. Abee, Connelly Springs

My Dad, the Folk Potter

Congratulations to each of you for a job well done!!