Morrissey wins book prize.

U of I history faculty traveled to Los Angeles for the annual meeting of the Western History Association in October 2023. Pictured here are Yuri Ramírez, Dave Beck, Bob Morrissey, Rosalyn LaPier, and Dale Mize. Bob is holding the plaque for the Hal K. Rothman Prize for the best book in Western Environmental History, which was awarded for his book People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America.