Robert D.W. Connor award
Each year, The Society presents the Robert D.W. Connor Award for best article in the field of North Carolina history or biography published in the North Carolina Historical Review the preceding year.
Past recipients
| 1953 | Hugh F. Rankin |
| 1954 | Hugh F. Rankin |
| 1955 | Paul Conkin |
| 1956 | H. G. Jones |
| 1957 | Diffee W. Standard and Richard W. Griffin |
| 1958 | H. H. Cunningham |
| 1959 | Frense A. Logan |
| 1960 | Vincent P. De Santis |
| 1961 | Richard L. Watson, Jr. |
| 1962 | Otto H. Olsen |
| 1963 | John L. Bell, Jr. |
| 1964 | Richard Bardolph |
| 1965 | Richard L. Watson, Jr. |
| 1966 | Joseph F. Steelman |
| 1967 | Joseph F. Steelman |
| 1968 | Melvin L. Urofsky |
| 1969 | William P. Cumming |
| 1970 | Joseph F. Steelman |
| 1971 | Edwin A. Miles |
| 1972 | Don Higginbotham |
| 1973 | Memory F. Mitchell and Thornton W. Mitchell |
| 1974 | James M. Clifton |
| 1975 | Peter Kent Opper |
| 1976 | Roberta Sue Alexander |
| 1977 | Gaines M. Foster |
| 1978 | James T. Baker |
| 1979 | Victor B. Howard |
| 1980 | Lala Carr Steelman |
| 1981 | Richard Reid |
| 1982 | David D. Scarboro and William T. Auman |
| 1983 | Thomas C. Parramore |
| 1984 | William T. Auman |
| 1985 | Marcus B. Simpson, Jr. |
| 1986 | Thomas E. Jeffrey |
| 1987 | Marc W. Kruman |
| 1988 | Marcus B. Simpson, Jr. and Sallie W. Simpson |
| 1989 | Paul D. Escott |
| 1990 | Gregory De Van Massey |
| 1991 | Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore |
| 1992 | Gordon B. McKinney |
| 1993 | Kenneth R. Janken |
| 1994 | David S. Cecelski |
| 1995 | Jon F. Sensbach |
| 1996 | Jane Turner Censer |
| 1997 | Sarah Carolina Theusen |
| 1998 | Patrick J. Huber |
| 1999 | David C. Carter |
| 2000 | Sayoko Uesugi |
| 2001 | Robert B. Outland III |
| 2002 | Karl E. Campbell |
| 2003 | Mark L. Bradley |
| 2004 | Elizabeth Gillespie McRae |
| 2005 | Chris Myers Asch |
| 2006 | Michelle LeMaster |
| 2007 | Roger Biles |
| 2008 | Mark Newman |
| 2009 | David La Vere |
| 2010 | Jerry Gershenhorn |
| 2011 | Charles W. McKinney Jr. |
| 2012 | Gael Graham |
| 2013 | J. Vincent Lowery |
| 2014 | Warren Milteer |
| 2015 | Kenneth Janken |
| 2016 | Warren T. Milteer |
| 2017 | Thomas L. Howard III |
| 2018 | Jelani M. Favors |
| 2019 | |
| 2020 | Jerry Gershenhorn and Anna Jones, "The Long Black Freedom Struggle in Northampton County, North Carolina, 1930s to 1970s." (January 2020 issue) |
| 2021 | Awarded at Spring 2022 meeting (details forthcoming). |
| 2022 |