Press Releases
2012 Book Prize Award
February 22, 2012
Washington College Announces $50,000 Book Prize Finalists
2011 Book Prize Award
February 25, 2011
Washington College Announces $50,000 Book Prize Finalists
May 24, 2011
George Washington Book Prize Goes to Pauline Maier…
September 2, 2011
George Washington Book Prize Celebration…
2010 Book Prize Award
February 19, 2010
Washington College Announces $50,000 Book Prize Finalists
May 20, 2010
$50,000 George Washington Book Prize Awarded to Richard Beeman
for Plain Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
2009 Book Prize Award
February 19, 2009
Washington College Announces $50,000 Book Prize Finalists
May 28, 2009
$50,000 George Washington Book Prize Awarded to Annette Gordon-Reed for
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
2008 Book Prize Award
February 22, 2008
Washington College Announces $50,000 Book Prize Finalists
May 29, 2008
$50,000 George Washington Book Prize Awarded to Marcus Rediker
for The Slave Ship
2007 Book Prize Award
February 15, 2007
Joan Smith Appointed George Washington Book Prize Coordinator
February 19, 2007
Washington College Announces $50 Thousand Book Prize Finalists
May 22, 2007
$50,000 George Washington Book Prize Awarded to Charles Rappleye
for Sons of Providence
2006 Book Prize Award
May 15, 2006
Finalists Selected for the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize
May 24, 2006
2006 George Washington Book Prize Awarded to Stacy Schiff for A Great Improvisation
August 4, 2006
Ben Franklin’s French Adventure: George Washington Book Prize Celebration Honors Author Stacy Schiff, September 14-15
December 20, 2006
Starr Center Donates 50+ Books to Miller Library …
2005 Book Prize Award
May 7, 2005
Historian Ron Chernow Awarded First Annual George Washington Book Prize for Alexander Hamilton
May 8, 2005
Biography of Ron Chernow: George Washington Book Prize Winner forAlexander Hamilton
August 12, 2005
Author Ron Chernow Examines Alexander Hamilton, “The Man Who Imagined Modern America,” September 15



