2025 Publication Awards

2025 Publication Awards

Announcing the 2025 Publication Award Winners

The Society’s Publication Awards, which take place every other year, publicly recognize the authors of the best recently published books on Texas history.

From the thirty-three nominations received this summer, our volunteer readers determined the top ten, and chose one winning children’s book.

Please save the date for our March 28, 2025 awards luncheon – Registration information coming soon.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL 2025 PUBLICATION AWARD RECIPIENTS!

Front cover of Battleground Bexar book

Battleground Bexar: The 1835 Siege of San Antonio

By: Richard L. Curilla

Published by: State House Press, 2022

Front cover of Brackenridge San Antonio's Acclaimed Urban Park book

Brackenridge: San Antonio’s Acclaimed Urban Park

By: Lewis F. Fisher

Published by: Trinity University Press, 2022

Front cover of Comanches, Captives, and Germans book

Comanches, Captives, and Germans: Wilhelm Friedrich’s Drawings from the Texas Frontier

By: Dr. Daniel J. Gelo, C.B. Hopkins, Christopher J. Wickham, and Bryden E. Moon, Jr.

Published by: State House Press, 2022

Front cover A History of the Waco Mammoth Site book

A History of the Waco Mammoth Site: In Pursuit of a National Monument

By: Calvin Smith and David O. Lintz

Published by: Baylor University Press, 2023

Front cover of Legend of the Fire Stag book

The Legend of the Fire Stag – Children’s Award

By: Sheri Phillabaum and Roy Ellzey, illustrated by Liz Painter

Published by: Shearer Publishing, 2022

Front cover of Miraflores San Antonio's Mexican Garden of Memory book

Miraflores: San Antonio’s Mexican Garden of Memory

By: Anne Elise Urrutia

Published by: Trinity University Press, 2022

Front cover of Preston Morgan Bolton, Texas Architect and Civic Leader book

Preston Morgan Bolton, Texas Architect and Civic Leader

By: Lillian C. Woo

Published by: Texas A&M University Press, 2022

Front cover to Unheard Witness: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman book

Unheard Witness: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman

By: Jo Scott-Coe

Published by: The University of Texas Press, 2023

Thank you to the 2023 Publication Awards Sponsors/ Donors

Hollerbach & Associates, Inc

Cynthia Leal Massey

Rebecca Smith

State House Press

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