We recognize excellent work by our majors and others with an outstanding performance in history courses in a variety of ways.

ATO-Paul F. Bloomhardt Award
Through a fund established to honor Dr. Paul F. Bloomhardt, Professor of History from 1925 until his retirement in 1956, an award is made each year to the outstanding junior majoring in history.
 

Margaret S. Ermarth Award
Through the fund established to honor Dr. Margaret S. Ermarth, Professor of History from 1953 until her retirement in 1974, an annual award is made to an outstanding senior majoring in history.
 

Martha and Robert G. Hartje Award
This award is given to a senior who has taken at least six courses in history, who recognizes history as a part of a basic philosophy of life, and who has demonstrated skill in the writing of narrative history.