Since 1989, the Spencer County Historical Society has honored individuals or organizations who have contributed to preserving the history of Spencer County, Indiana. This has been done at a public banquet with guest speakers. In addition to the Historian of the Year, the Society also recognizes a Commemorative Historian of the Year.

          Be it resolved that the Spencer County Historical Society recognize each year a person or organization which has contributed the most, in the view of the Society, toward preserving the history of our County, or whose efforts, in the present or past, have made the history of the County richer.

          Below is a list of individuals or organizations who have been named Historians of the Year or Commemorative Historians of the Year in the past.