Catfish, Fiddles, Mules, and More:

Missouri's State Symbols

University of Missouri Press 2003

Pot Roast, Politics, and Ants in the Pantry:

Missouri's Cookbook Heritage

University of Missouri Press 2008

 Walter Williams Major Work Award  2nd Place

Missouri Writers' Guild

Food in the American Military:

A History

McFarland Publishers, Inc 2011

Winner Walter Williams Major Work Award

Missouri Writers' Guild

Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland: The Transformation of the Lowlands

 McFarland Publishers, Inc 2017

First Place in the 2018 Missouri Writer's Guild "Show-Me Best Book Award" competition