George Washington Book Prize
The George Washington Book Prize has been awarded since 2005 by Washington College (CV Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience) , the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and George Washington's Mount Vernon for the history of the early days of the United States. It is endowed with 50,000 dollars (as of 2020) and named after George Washington .
Award winners
- 2005 Ron Chernow for Alexander Hamilton
- 2006 Stacy Schiff for A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
- 2007 Charles Rappleye for Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution
- 2008 Marcus Rediker for The Slave Ship: A Human History
- 2009 Annette Gordon-Reed for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
- 2010 Richard R. Beeman for Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
- 2011 Pauline Maier for Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution: 1787-1788
- 2012 Maya Jasanoff for Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
- 2013 Stephen Brumwell for George Washington: Gentleman Warrior
- 2014 Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy for The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
- 2015 Nick Bunker for Empire on the Edge
- 2016 Flora Fraser for The Washingtons: George and Martha, “Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love.”
- 2017 Nathaniel Philbrick for Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
- 2018 Kevin J. Hayes for George Washington: A Life in Books
- 2019 Colin Calloway for The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation