The North Carolina Society of Historians presented two book awards to Carole Troxler, retired professor of history, at its annual awards presentation in Morehead City on Nov. 1.
Troxler received the Paul Green Multimedia Award for a reference work on compact disk titled “Alamance County, N.C., Transcripts of Census and Tax Records: Vol. 1” which was completed in December 2002. The CD features a transcription of the 1860 census and eight other previously unpublished 19th-century Alamance County public records. Judges for the competition wrote, “The writer’s eminently readable style, proficient research and exhaustive amount of material will make this CD the consummate source of information…we wish that all counties could be as fortunate as Alamance at having Dr. Troxler’s expertise and dedication at their disposal.” Sales of the CD benefit the Trading Path Association. Troxler serves on the association’s executive board.
“Pyle’s Defeat Deception at the Race Path” received the Willie Parker Peace History Book Award. Troxler contributed her study of the controversial 1781 battle to the Alamance County Historical Association, which published the book in May 2003. Judges said this “remarkable book…had a profound impact on us. It was thrilling to learn the new information obtained by impeccable research and woven into an exciting chronology that set the record straight in a reader-friendly style.”
Both works can be purchased at Alamance Battleground State Historic Site and Alamance County Historical Museum. “Pyle’s Defeat” costs $12, and the Alamance records CD costs $50.
Troxler, a native of LaGrange, Ga., has been listed in “Who’s Who in America” since 2001.
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