Since 1961, the department has honored the following outstanding graduating seniors for their academic achievements with the History Department Award.
2022 Avery Volker
2021 Nora Williams, Hugo Stack
2020 Thomas Stack
2019 Florence Sloan
2018 Lee Holden
2017 Danielle Scott
2016 Emiley Pagrabs
2015 Savannah Paige Murray, Erin Simmonds
2014 Daniel M. Bennett
2013 James David Williams
2012 Jennifer Coggins
2011 Rebecca Heiser
2010 Sarah Hannah Newman, Leia Boudet
2009 Vanessa Lauber, Lindy Bunch
2008 Ivy Farr, Mariel Willenburg
2007 Joshua Thompson
2006 Melia Brannon
2005 Allyn Steele
2004 Robert Emil Tibbetts
2003 Marlana Hope Brown
2002 Alison Victoria Nunnally
2001 Allyson S. Jones
2001 Rachel A. Mahaffey
2000 Meghan A. Audette
1999 James Hayes Walsh
1998 Amy R. Brandstadter
1997 Jennifer Daye Hammond
1996 Virginia Leigh Allen
1995 Dwain Carlton Pruitt
1994 Richard Phillip Stone
1993 Wendy Elizabeth Sellars
1993 Christopher James Vinyard
1992 Eric Raymond Ireland
1991 Jonathan Dean Crumly
1990 Cindy K. Wesley
1989 Maxie Myron Cox, Jr.
1989 Rebecca Lynn Rush
1988 Rachel Ann Donald
1987 William Benson Darwin Jr.
1986 Sheila Poteat
1985 Layne McDaniel
1984 Nancy Barr
1983 Perry H. Gravely
1982 Rob Barrett
1981 David Morgan
1980 James L. Parris
1979 Wade Ballard
1978 Sally Nan Barber
1977 William W. Canady
1976 William B. Bynum
1975 Tom Brittain
1974 Eddie Hinson
1973 Thomas H. Coker Jr.
1972 Danny Marvin Kaminer
1971 Gaines Milligan Foster
1970 No award
1969 John David Wilson
1968 Robert F. Martin
1967 Allen E. Morgan
1966 William Jones Bates
1965 No award
1964 Allen H Stokes Jr.
1963 Michael Joseph Copps
1962 Samuel Kiser Harmon
1961 William B. Gravely