Award-winning Titles
Historical Society of Michigan Award of Merit
The Historical Society of Michigan’s annual State History Awards-Awards of Merit are prized statewide and are the highest recognition presented by the state’s official historical society and oldest cultural organization.
2006
To Keep the South Manitou Light
Anna Egan Smucker
An exciting story laced with regional history, young readers will be captivated by the adventures of a twelve-year-old girl as she learns about courage and responsibility in a late-nineteenth-century Lake Michigan lighthouse.
“I Hope to Do My Country Service”: The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry
Edited by Robert Beasecker
A revealing firsthand account of the Civil War as told through the letters of a Michigan regimental surgeon.