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UPK Author Wins McLemore Prize

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 17, 2011) University Press of Kentucky (UPK) author Robert V. Haynes was selected as the recipient of the 2011 McLemore Prize for his book "The Mississippi Territory and the Southwest Frontier, 1795-1817." The prize is awarded to the best book on Mississippi history or biography published during the previous year.

The McLemore Prize memorializes Richard A. McLemore, former president of the Mississippi Historical Society (MHS) and director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and his wife, Nannie Pitts McLemore, who also served as MHS president and who jointly wrote numerous books and scholarly articles with her husband. As winner of the McLemore Prize, Haynes received a cash prize of $700 at the 2011 meeting of the society held March 4, at the Old Capitol Museum, in Jackson, Miss.

In "The Mississippi Territory and the Southwest Frontier, 1795–1817," Haynes does more than recount history; he explores the political and diplomatic situations that led to the formation and expansion of the Mississippi Territory. Extensively researched and exceptionally written, Haynes details critical events in Mississippi’s rich history, such as ongoing border violence, the arrest of infamous traitor Aaron Burr, and the bloody Creek War.

Haynes, a retired professor of history at Western Kentucky University, is also the author of "A Night of Violence: The Houston Riot of 1917."

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