THE McCLUNG AWARD
An award of one hundred dollars is offered by the Society to the contributor of the paper which is judged to be the best of those printed in each number of The Journal of East Tennessee History (formerly the East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications). To be eligible for the award, papers must relate to some phase of the history of Tennessee and must cite sources. Originality, scholarship, power of interpretation, clarity of expression, logical arrangement, and literary form shall be the tests applied by the judges. Papers submitted by any officers of the Society are ineligible.

These awards are in memory of Calvin Morgan and Barbara Adair McClung, deceased, founders of a notable collection of Tennessee and Southern history at Lawson McGhee Library, Knoxville. The winners of the previous awards and their contributions are:

No. 77 (2005) - Anne Meis Knupfer, "The Urban and Rural Reform ACtivities of Lilian Wyckoff Johnson"
No. 76 (2004) - William K. Bolt, "'War to the Knife': Tennessee's Response to the Panic of 1837."
No. 75 (2003) - Commemorative Issue - (no award given)
No. 74 (2002) - Ned L. Irwin, "Cone and Adler: Old World Ways and a New World Business."
No. 73 (2001) - Benita Howell, "Rugby, Tennessee's Master Planner: Franklin Webster Smith of Boston."
No. 72 (2000) - Matthew Lakin, "'A Dark Night': The Knoxville Race Riot of 1919."
No. 71 (1999) - John T. Ellisor, "'Like So Many Wolves': Creek Removal in the Cherokee Country, 1835-1838."
No. 70 (1998) - Alexander S. Macauley, Jr., "Growing Pains: The Immortal Thirteen, the Destructive Twelve, and the Emergence of Two-Party Politics in Antebellum Tennessee."
No. 69 (1997) - Brad Austin, "'College Would Be a Dead Old Dump Without It': Intercollegiate Athletics in East Tennessee During the Depression Era."
No. 68 (1996) - Forrest L. Marion, "Blue Laws, Knoxville, and the Second World War."
No. 67 (1995) - Noel Fisher, "Definitions of Loyalty: Unionist Histories of The Civil War in East Tennessee."
No. 66 (1994) - Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein, "Confederate Army of Tennessee Hospitals in Chattanooga."
No. 65 (1993) - Philip A. Egelston and Ronald W. Fischer, Jr., "The Charles Lanham Collection of Autobiographies."
No. 64 (1992) - William C. Harris, "East Tennessee's Civil War Refugees and the Impact of the War on Civilians."
No. 63 (1991) - Peter Wallenstein, "Which Side Are You On?: The Social Origins of White Union Troops from Civil War Tennessee."
No. 62 (1990) - Michael Toomey, "'Doing Justice to Suitors': The County Courts in the Southwest Territory."
No. 61 (1989) - Paul E. Isaac, "Defeat or Victory: The Republican Party in Tennessee, 1918-1920."
No. 60 (1988) - Charles F. Bryan, Jr., "Tories Amidst Rebels: Confederate Occupation of East Tennessee, 1861-63."
No. 58-59 (1986-1987) - Joe Cummings, "Community and the Nature of Change: Sevier County, Tennessee in the 1890s."
No. 56-57 (1984-1985) - Dean Novelli, "On a Corner of Gay Street: A History of the Lamar House-Bijou Theater, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1817-1985."
No. 54-55 (1982-1983) - Neil A. Hamilton, "Tennessee Villager in a Modern World: G.S. Lannom, Jr., Baseball and Leather Entrepreneur."
No. 52-53 (1980-1981) - Neil A. Hamilton, "J. Allen Smith and White Lily Foods: Speculums of Modern America."
No. 51 (1979) - Commemorative Issue (no award given)
No. 50 (1978) - James C. Kelly, "Fort Loudoun: British Stronghold in the Tennessee Country."
No. 49 (1977) - Russell D. Parker, "Alcoa, Tennessee: The Years of Change, 1940-1960."
No. 48 (1976) - Russell D. Parker, "Alcoa, Tennessee: The Early Years, 1919-1939."
No. 47 (1975) - Robert Russell, "Andrew Johnson and the Charleston Convention of 1860."
No. 46 (1974) - Barry A. Crouch, "The Merchant and the Senator: An Attempt to Save East Tennessee for the Union."
No. 45 (1973) - Gordon B. McKinney, "The Rise of the Houk Machine in East Tennessee."
No. 44 (1972) - William Robert Rogers, "A History of the Smoky Mountain Railroad."
No. 43 (1971) - James W. McKee, Jr., "Felix K. Zolicoffer: Confederate Defender of East Tennessee."
No. 42 (1970) - Joseph Bruce Gorman, "The Early Career of Estes Kefauver."
No. 41 (1969) - Lester C. Lamon, "Tennessee Race Relations and the Knoxville Race Riot of 1919."
No. 40 (1968) - Brian G. Walton, "A Triumph of Political Stability: The Election of 1847 in Tennessee."
No. 39 (1967) - James W. Livingood, "The Chattanooga Rebel."
No. 38 (1966) - David Edwin Harrell, Jr. "The Disciples of Christ and Social Force in Tennessee, 1865-1900."
No. 37 (1965) - William D. Miller, "The Browning-Crump Battle: The Crump Side."
No. 36 (1964) - Jack D.L. Holmes, "The Ebb Tide of Spanish Military Power on the Mississippi: Fort San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1795-1798."
No. 35 (1963) - Palmer H. Boeger, "General Burnside's Knoxville Packing Project."
No. 34 (1962) - Jack D.L. Holmes, "Spanish-American Rivalries Over the Chickasaw Bluffs, 1780-1795."
No. 33 (1961) - Ralph W. Haskins, "Andrew Johnson and the Preservation of the Union."
No. 32 (1960) - Willard Hays, "Andrew Johnson's Reputation" (continued).
No. 31 (1959) - Willard Hays, "Andrew Johnson's Reputation."
No. 30 (1958) - Leota Driver Moore, "Colonel John Williams."
No. 29 (1957) - Harold S. Fink, "The East Tennessee Campaign and the Battle of Knoxville, 1863."
No. 28 (1956) - Henry T. Malone, "Return Jonathan Meigs: Indian Agent Extraordinaire."
No. 27 (1955) - Frank B. Williams, Jr., "The East Tennessee Education Association, 1903-1954."
No. 26 (1954) - Russell J. Stockard, "The Election and First Administration of Ben W. Hooper as Governor of Tennessee."
No. 25 (1953) - Charles G. Sellers, Jr., "James K. Polk's Political Apprenticeship."
No. 24 (1952) - Thomas H. Alexander, "Strange Bedfellows: The Interlocking Careers of T.A.R. Nelson, Andrew Johnson, and W. G. (Parson) Brownlow."
No. 23 (1951) - William H. Masterson, "William Blount and the Establishment of the Southwest Territory, 1790-91."
No. 22 (1950) - William N. Chambers, "Thwarted Warrior: The Last Years of Thomas Hart Benton in Tennessee."
No. 21 (1949) - W.H.G. Armytage, "New Light on the English Background of Thomas Hughes' Rugby Colony in Tennessee."
No. 20 (1948) - James B. Campbell, "East Tennessee During the Radical Regime, 1865-1869."
No. 19 (1947) - James B. Campbell, "East Tennessee During the Federal Occupation, 1863-1865."
No. 18 (1946) - Arthur S. Link, "Democratic Politics and the Presidential Campaign of 1912 in Tennessee."
No. 17 (1945) - Thomas D. Clark, "The Country Store in Post-Civil War Tennessee."
No. 16 (1944) - Joseph H. Parks, "John Bell and Secession."
No. 15 (1943) - William C. Binkley, "Some Undeveloped Phases of Tennessee History."
No. 14 (1942) - Joseph H. Parks, "Memphis Under Military Rule, 1862-1865."
No. 13 (1941) - W. T. Jordan, "The Private Interests and Activities of George Washington Campbell."
No. 12 (1940) - T. Harry Williams, "Andrew Johnson as a Member of the Committee on the Conduct of the War."
No. 11 (1939) - W. T. Jordan, "The Freedman's Bureau in Tennessee."
No. 10 (1938) - Mary R. Campbell, "Tennessee and the Union, 1847-1861."
No. 9 (1937) - Powell Moore, "James K. Polk and Tennessee Politics, 1839-1841."
No. 8 (1936) - A. C. Huston, Jr., "The Overthrow of the Convict Lease System in Tennessee."
No. 7 (1935) - A. C. Huston, Jr., "The Coal Miners' Insurrection of 1891 in Anderson County, Tennessee."
No. 6 (1934) - Culver H. Smith, "Propaganda Techniques in the Jackson Campaign of 1828."
No. 5 (1933) - S. J. Folmsbee, "Beginnings of the Railroad Movement in East Tennessee."
No. 4 (1932) - W. Neil Franklin, "Virginia and the Cherokee Indian Trade, 1673-1752."
No. 3 (1931) - W. B. Hesseltine, "Methodism and Reconstruction in East Tennessee."
No. 2 (1930) - W. B. Hesseltine, "The Underground Railroad from Confederate Prisons to East Tennessee."
No. 1 (1929) - W. M. Caskey, "The First Administration of Governor Andrew Jackson."