The George Washington Prize honors the year’s best new works on early American history. Created in 2005, the $50,000 prize is one of the nation’s largest literary awards. It is sponsored by Washington College in Maryland, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Virginia.
2024: The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence, by David Waldstreicher
2023: First Among Men, by Maurizio Valsania
2022: Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery, by Bruce A. Ragsdale
2021: 1774: The Long Year of Revolution, by Mary Beth Norton
2020: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, by Rick Atkinson
2019: The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation, by Colin, Calloway
2018: George Washington: A Life in Books, by Kevin J. Hayes
2017: Valiant Ambition, by Nathaniel Philbrick
2016: The Washingtons: George and Martha, by Flora Fraser
2015: An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America, by Nick Bunker
2015 (Special Achievement Award): Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda
2014: The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire, by Andrew O’Shaughnessy
2013: George Washington: Gentleman Warrior, by Stephen Brumwell
2012: Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, by Maya Jasanoff
2011: Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, by Pauline Maier
2010: Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution, by Richard Zeeman
2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed
2008: The Slave Ship: A Human History, by Marcus Rediker
2007: Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution, by Charles Rappleye
2006: A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, by Stacy Schiff
2005: Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
2017: Valiant Ambition, by Nathaniel Philbrick
2016: The Washingtons: George and Martha, by Flora Fraser
2015: An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America, by Nick Bunker
2015 (Special Achievement Award): Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda
2014: The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire, by Andrew O’Shaughnessy
2013: George Washington: Gentleman Warrior, by Stephen Brumwell
2012: Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, by Maya Jasanoff
2011: Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, by Pauline Maier
2010: Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution, by Richard Zeeman
2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed
2008: The Slave Ship: A Human History, by Marcus Rediker
2007: Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution, by Charles Rappleye
2006: A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, by Stacy Schiff
2005: Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
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