On May 21, 2026, North Caroliniana Society members,
and family and friends of honorees, met in Chapel Hill, NC to celebrate Society Award winners.
2026 Society Award: Dr. James W. Clark, Jr.
2025 Book Award: Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas by Craig Thompson Friend
2026 Powell Award: Maya Musselman
2026 Society Award:
Dr. James W. Clark, Jr.
Write When You Are Ready
2025 Book Award:
Becoming Lunsford Lane:
The Lives of an American Aeneas
by Craig Thompson Friend
2026 Powell Award:
Maya Musselman
Panel Presentation and Tribute
On April 13, 2025, North Caroliniana Society members,
and family and friends of honorees, met in Pembroke, NC to celebrate Society Award winners.
2025 Society Award: Dr. Jo Ann Chavis Lowery
2024 Book Award: George Masa: A Life Reimagined by Janet McCue and Paul Bonesteel
2025 Powell Award: Anna Marie Switzer
2025 Society Award:
Dr. Jo Ann Chavis Lowery
A Woman of the Dark Water:
A Pathmaker and A Wisdomkeeper
2024 Book Award:
George Masa: A Life Reimagined
by Janet McCue and Paul Bonesteel
2025 Powell Award:
Anna Marie Switzer
On April 24, 2024, North Caroliniana Society members,
and family and friends of honorees, met in Chapel Hill to celebrate Society Award winners.
2024 Society Award: Kevin Cherry
2023 Book Award: A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and
the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction by Drew A. Swanson
2024 Powell Award: Robert Elliot Clay
2024 Society Award:
Kevin Cherry
A Future for Our Histories
2023 Book Award:
A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and
the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction
by Drew A. Swanson
2024 Powell Award:
Robert Elliot Clay
2024 Society Award:
Tributes
On May 25, 2023, North Caroliniana Society members,
and family and friends of honorees, met in Chapel Hill to celebrate Society Award winners.
2023 Society Award: Martin Brinkley
2022 Book Award: A History of North Carolina in the Proprietary Era, 1629-1729 by Lindley S. Butler
2023 Powell Award: Seth Thomas Moore
On June 9, 2022, the North Caroliniana Society members,
and family and friends of honorees, met in Chapel Hill to celebrate Society Award winners.
2022 Society Award: William Mangum
2021 Book Award: North Carolina: Land of Water Land of Sky by Bland Simpson
2022 Powell Award: Abby Wooten
In 2021, the North Caroliniana Society was unable to meet in person due to the ongoing Pandemic.
In October 2021, a small team met in Chapel Hill to celebrate the 2021 Society Award recipient, Howard N. Lee,
and the 2020 Book Award recipient, David Menconi, and to record these videos.
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