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Great Plains Quarterly Awards


The Frederick C. Luebke Award is given to the best article published in the Quarterly each year. A $250 prize is also awarded to the winner. This recognition is named after Frederick C. Luebke who was the first editor of the Quarterly, the third director of the Center, and is Professor emeritus of History at UNL.

  Luebke Award for the best article published in 2007 was awarded to Shawn Lee Alexander, assistant professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas, for his article, 'Vengeance Without Justice, Injustice Without Retribution. The Afro-American Council's Struggle Against Racial Violence', (Spring 2007), Vol. 27/No. 2

 

 

Past Award Winners


FREDERICK C. LUEBKE AWARD


2006

Peter Feron
'Relief for Wanderers: The Transient Service in Kansas, 1933-35 Fall 2006, Vol. 26/No. 4
2005

Linda Clemmons
'We Will Talk of Nothing Else': Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837 Summer 2005, Vol. 25/No. 3
2004

Andrea G. Radke
Refining Rural Space: Women and Vernacular Gentility in the Great Plains, 1880-1920
 Fall 2004, Vol. 24/No. 4
2003

Jill E. Martin
'The Greatest Evil': Interpretations of Indian Prohibition Laws, 1832-1953
Winter 2003, Vol. 23/No. 1
2002

Bernard Lemelin
Congressman Usher Burdick of North Dakota and the 'Ungodly Menace': Anti-United Nations Rhetoric, 1950-1958
Summer 2002, Vol. 22/No. 3
2001

Jeffrey Ostler
'The Last Buffalo Hunt' and Beyond: Plains Sioux Economic Strategies in the Early Reservation Period
Spring 2001, Vol. 21/No. 2
2000

Barbara Risch
The Picture Changes: Stylistic Variation in Sitting Bull's Biographies
Fall 2000, Vol. 20/No. 4
1999

Kari Forbes-Boyte
Litigation, Mitigation, and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act: The Bear Butte Example
Winter 1999, Vol. 19/No. 1
1998

Blake Gumprecht
Giants on the Plains: Grain Elevators and the Making of Enid, Oklahoma
Fall 1998, Vol. 18/No. 4
1997

Linea Sundstrom
The Sacred Black Hills: An Ethnohistorical Review 1997
Vol. 17/No. 3/4
1996

Gerald Zahavi
'Who's Going to Dance with Somebody Who Calls You a Mainstreeter': Communism, Culture, and Community in Sheridan County, Montana, 1918-1934
Fall 1996, Vol. 16/No. 4
1995

Frederick C. Luebke
The Progressive Context of the Nebraska Capitol: The Collaboration of Goodhue and Tack
Fall 1995, Vol. 15/No. 4
1994

David Murphy
Jeijich Antonie: Czechs, The Land, Cather and the Pavelka Farmstead
Spring 1994, Vol. 12/No. 2
1993

Russel L. Barsh
An American Heart of Darkness: The 1913 Expedition for American Indian Citizenship
Spring 1993, Vol. 13/No. 2
1992

Betsy Downey
Battered Pioneers: Jules Sandoz and the Physical Abuse of Wives on the American Frontier
Winter 1992, Vol. 12/No. 1
1991

Joseph V. Hickey
'Pap' Singleton's Dunlap Colony: Relief Agencies and the Failure of a Black Settlement in Eastern Kansas
Winter 1991, Vol. 11/No. 1
1990

Janet E. Schulte
'Proving Up and Moving Up': Jewish Homesteading Activity in North Dakota, 1900-1920
Fall 1990, Vol. 10/No. 1
1989

Nancy Tystad Koupal
The Wonderful Wizard of the West: L. Frank Baum in South Dakota
Fall 1989, Vol. 9/No. 4
1988

Carolyn Garrett Pool
Reservation Policy and the Economic Position of Wichita Women
Summer 1988, Vol. 8/No. 3