The Empire State Archives and History Award Honoring Douglas Brinkley with Host Harold Holzer

The Empire State Archives & History Award was created by the New York State Archives Partnership Trust to acknowledge the outstanding contributions of a national figure to advance the understanding and uses of history within our society.

Hosted by renowned Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer, the award has been bestowed to:
- C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb
- Historians: Doris Kearns Goodwin; Michael Beschloss; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Harold Holzer; James McPherson; Robert Caro; Ron Chernow; David McCullough; Annette Gordon-Reed; Jon Meacham; Lonnie Bunch
- Documentarian Ken Burns
- Actors Sam Waterson, Richard Dreyfuss, and Stephen Lang

These recipients were recognized for their popularization of history and civic literacy.