George Blakey (FACET 1989), Professor Emeritus of History at IU East, has received the Indiana Historical Society’s 2006 Jacob Piatt Dunn Jr. Award for the best article to appear in Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. Blakey’s article, “Morgan’s Raid: Childhood Memories of the Civil War in Indiana,” appeared in the fall 2005 issue. The $500 award honors the article that in the opinion of the editorial board best serves the magazine’s mission. The award is named for a 19th-century Hoosier who helped revitalize the society in the 1880s, worked on a variety of Indianapolis newspapers, campaigned to establish free public libraries, endeavored to preserve the language of the Miami Indians and prospected for minerals in Haiti.