The finalists for the 2018 George Washington Prize, which recognizes " best-written works on the nation's founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of early American history," are:
The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence by S. Max Edelson (Harvard University Press)
George Washington: A Life in Books by Kevin J. Hayes (Oxford University Press)
Boston's Massacre by Eric Hinderaker (Harvard University Press)
Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty by Jon Kukla (Simon & Schuster)
The Burr Conspiracy Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis by James E. Lewis, Jr. (Princeton University Press)
The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century America by Jennifer Van Horn (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture)
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England by Douglas L. Winiarski (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture)
The winner of the $50,000 prize, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, George Washington's Mount Vernon and Washington College, will be announced at a gala on May 23 at Mount Vernon.
