New Wertheimer and Bellush Prizes Awarded

NYLHA is proud to announce our winners of the Bernard Bellush and Barbara Wertheimer Prizes for 2014.  The Wertheimer Prize goes to Connor Kenaston of Yale University (faculty advisor John Faragher), “If the Men Don’t Fight, the Women Will’: Women and Gender Roles in the West Virginia Mine Wars,” and Kathryn Tokle of the University of Montana (faculty advisor Anya Jabour), “In the Wake of Disaster and Disease: Widowhood in Butte, America, 1900-1920.”  The Bellush Prize goes to Trish Kahle of the University of Chicago, for “The Graveyard Shift: Energy Industry Reorganization and Rank and File Rebellion in the UMWA, 1963-1973.”  Abstracts for the Wertheimer essays are available here, and an abstract for the Bellush essay is available here.

Congratulations to all the winners!