Thanks to the generosity of the Byrnes Family, in memory of Joseph R. and Anne S. Byrnes, the Baltimore City Historical Society presents an annual Joseph L. Arnold Prize for Outstanding Writing on Baltimore's History, in the amount of $500.

Joseph L. Arnold, Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, died in 2004, at the age of sixty-six.  He was a vital and enormously important member of the UMBC faculty for some three and a half decades, as well as a leading historian of urban and planning history. He also played an active and often leading role with a variety of private and public historical institutions in the Baltimore area, and at his death was hailed as the "dean of Baltimore historians."

Entries for the 2010 Joseph L. Arnold Prize should be unpublished manuscripts between 15 and 45 double-spaced pages in length (including footnotes/endnotes). Entries should be submitted via e-mail as attachments in MS Word or PC convertible format. If illustrations are included, they must be submitted along with the text in either J-peg or TIF formation.  Entries must be submitted by February 1, 2011.

Criteria for selection are: significance, originality, quality of research, and clarity of presentation. The winner will be announced in Spring, 2011. The BCHS reserves the right not to award the prize. The winning entry will be considered for publication in the Maryland Historical Magazine.

Further inquiries may be addressed to: baltimorehistory@law.umaryland.edu
 or call Suzann Langrall at 410-706-4529.