One last stray note from the American Historical Association meeting this past weekend was the announcement of the 5th annual Cliopatria Awards, sponsored by the History News Network’s Cliopatria group blog.

The winner of the best group history blog was In the Middle, a medievalist group blog which impressed the judges with its “interdisciplinary approach, its consistently intelligent prose, its effective blend of wit and genuine scholarship, and its ability to follow the medieval wherever it might lead—from popular culture to high theory.”

Civil War Memory, written by Kevin M. Levin, an instructor at St. Anne’s-Belfield school in Charlottesville, VA, won the award for best individual history blog. Judges observed that “Civil War Memory “offers the best of both military history blogging and history blogging about the broader political, intellectual, and social context of regional conflict.”

Religion in America, a group blog organized by Paul Harvey, a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, won the award for best new history blog. The judges cited “religion in America” as “a great example of how blogging can be used to present scholarship in a specialist academic field to a much wider audience and to create solid practical resources for teachers and researchers.”

Cliopatria Awards were also given to Caleb Crain as best writer for his posts at Steamboats Are Ruining Everything and to Timothy Burke, a professor of history at Swarthmore College (and a blogger at Cliopatria) for the best individual post. The documentary filmmaker Errol Morris also received a Cliopatria award — best series of posts — for a three-part series of articles on his New York Times blog Zoom that examined Crimean War photography. —Richard Byrne