Every two years the association awards prizes for outstanding articles that are published in The Proceedings. One prize is for the best article submitted by a graduate student member. The other prize is for the best article submitted by a professional member.  Awards made at the 2003 annual meeting were for the best articles appearing in The Proceedings for the period 2001-2002. 

Aaron W. Marrs won the graduate student award for "Disatisfaction and Desertion in Greenville District, South Carolina, 1860-1865," and Elizabeth Cassidy West won the professional member prize for " 'Yours for Home and Country': The War Work of the South Carolina Woman's Committtee."