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."

In 2009 Lara Kozer was awarded Hollis prize for best graduate student paper of the past 2 years for her article entitled: “Built by the Border: South of the Border and the Border Business, 1950-1965.” Published in the 2005 Proceedings.

In 2011 Lindsay Crawford awarded Hollis Prize for her article published in the 2009 Proceedings, “Martha Rutledge Kinloch Singleton: A Slaveholdings Widow in Antebellum South Carolina.”