George Washington Book Prize

Uitgereikt door Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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Awards an annual $50,000 prize. The George Washington Book Prize recognizes the year’s best books on the nation’s founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad public toon meer understanding of American history. toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (19), Finalist (63)
Jaren:
Alle, 2023 (1), 2022 (5), 2021 (7), 2020 (7), 2019 (6), 2018 (7), 2017 (7), 2016 (7), 2015 (4), 2014 (3), 2013 (4), 2012 (3), 2011 (3), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (3), 2007 (3), 2006 (3), 2005 (3)
Aangekondigd:
september 2023: Winnaar2023 Recent

Winner 19

WerkJaar
First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity door Maurizio Valsania2023
Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery door Bruce A. Ragsdale2022
1774: The Long Year of Revolution door Mary Beth Norton2021
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 door Rick Atkinson2020
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation door Colin G. Calloway2019
George Washington: A Life in Books door Kevin J. Hayes2018
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution door Nathaniel Philbrick2017
The Washingtons: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" door Flora Fraser2016
An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America door Nick Bunker2015
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) door Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy2014
George Washington: Gentleman Warrior door Stephen Brumwell2013
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World door Maya Jasanoff2012
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 door Pauline Maier2011
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution door Richard Beeman2010
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family door Annette Gordon-Reed2009
The slave ship. A human history door Marcus Rediker2008
Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution door Charles Rappleye2007
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America door Stacy Schiff2006
Alexander Hamilton door Ron Chernow2005

Finalist 63

WerkJaar
Perfecting the union : national and state authority in the US Constitution door Max M. Edling2022
The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women Behind Britain's Wars for America door Julie Flavell2022
Minds and Hearts: The Story of James Otis Jr. and Mercy Otis Warren door Jeffrey H. Hacker2022
George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father door David O. Stewart2022
Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic door Mark Boonshoft2021
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War door Vincent Brown2021
Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation door Peter Cozzens2021
The Age of Phillis door Honorée Fanonne Jeffers2021
The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution (The University Center for Human Values Series, 48) door Michael W. McConnell2021
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War door William G. Thomas III2021
Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home door Richard Bell2020
The Property of the Nation: George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President door Matthew R. Costello2020
Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America door Douglas R. Egerton2020
World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family's Journey through the American Revolution (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) door Richard Godbeer2020
A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution door David Head2020
The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington door Martha Saxton2020
Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father door Stephen Fried2019
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America door Catherine Kerrison2019
The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life door Joyce Lee Malcolm2019
Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom door Russell Shorto2019
Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father door Peter Stark2019
The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence door S. Max Edelson2018
Boston’s Massacre door Eric Hinderaker2018
Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty door Jon Kukla2018
The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis door James E. Lewis2018
The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America door Jennifer Van Horn2018
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England door Douglas L. Winiarski2018
George Washington's Journey: The President Forges a New Nation door T. H. Breen2017
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination door Annette Gordon-Reed2017
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley door Jane Kamensky2017
The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution door Michael J. Klarman2017
Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle door Mark Edward Lender2017
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 door Alan Taylor2017
Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention door Mary Sarah Bilder2016
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution door Kathleen DuVal2016
Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader door Robert Middlekauff2016
Revolutions without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World door Janet Polasky2016
Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution door David L. Preston2016
War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation door John Sedgwick2016
A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia door Richard S. Dunn2015
When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation door François Furstenberg2015
The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding door Eric Nelson2015
The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy door Jeffrey L. Pasley2014
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 door Alan Taylor2014
Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire door Eliga H. Gould2013
Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times door Cynthia A. Kierner2013
Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood door Brian Douglas Steele2013
Was America Founded As a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction door John Fea2012
Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors door Benjamin H. Irvin2012
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America door Jack Rakove2011
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies door Alan Taylor2011
The Founding Fathers Reconsidered door R. B. Bernstein2010
Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage door Edith Gelles2010
The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson door Kevin J. Hayes2009
The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse door Jane Kamensky2009
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution door Woody Holton2008
1812: War with America door Jon Latimer2008
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation door Catherine Allgor2007
In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation door François Furstenberg2007
General George Washington: A Military Life door Edward G. Lengel2006
Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783 door Stanley Weintraub2006
Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation door Rhys Isaac2005
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin door Gordon S. Wood2005

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Awards an annual $50,000 prize. The George Washington Book Prize recognizes the year’s best books on the nation’s founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of American history. (English, Door lid geschreven)
The award—which is co-sponsored by Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and George Washington's Mount Vernon—recognizes the past year's best books on the nation's founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of American history. (English, Door lid geschreven)

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