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MARAC PRESENTS THE ARLINE CUSTER MEMORIAL AWARD At its fall meeting, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference announced the winners of the Arline Custer Memorial Award. Given annually, the award recognizes the best book and article written by an individual or institutions in the MARAC region, including the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The following works received awards: Book: Anthony S. Pitch, "They Have Killed Papa Dead!" The Road to Ford's Theater, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance (Hanover: Steerforth Press, 2008) Article: Donna Wells with David Haberstich, "The Scurlock Studio: A Biography" in The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2009) The Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee issues the call for books and articles. evaluates submissions, and awards the prize. Members of MARAC established this committee in 1976 to honor the memory of Arline Custer, former MARAC member and editor of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, who died in 1975. For more information, contact Mary Beth Corrigan, marybeth818@comcast.net. Matthew Gilmore H-DC list co-editor, web editor dc-edit@mail.h-net.msu.edu http://www.h-net.org/~dclist/ [list website] http://www.h-net.org/lists/subscribe.cgi?list=H-DC [subscribe to H-DC] Remember to check http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=lm&list=H-DC for past list messages.
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