Richard Slatten Award
In 1998 the Society inaugurated the Richard Slatten Prize for Excellence in Virginia Biography. Thanks to a generous bequest from the estate of Kathleen L. Slatten, we are able to offer a cash award to recognize distinguished contributions to Virginia biography.
Past recipients:
Keith D. Dickson • Sustaining Southern Identity: Douglas Southall Freeman and Memory in the Modern South (2011)
Susan Kern • The Jeffersons at Shadwell (2010)
A. J. Angulo • William Barton Rogers and the Idea of MIT (2009)
James R. Sweeney, ed. • Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959 (2008)
Elizabeth Brown Pryor • Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through His Private Letters (2007)
Jeff Broadwater • George Mason: Forgotten Founder (2006)
Andrew Levy • The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves (2005)
Warren M. Billings • Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia (2004)
Elizabeth Varon • Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy (2003)
Ann Field Alexander • Race Man: The Rise and Fall of the "Fighting Editor," John Mitchell Jr. (2002)
Richard B. McCaslin • Lee in the Shadow of Washington (2001)
Bettina Berch • The Woman behind the Lens: The Life and Work of Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864–1952 (2000)
Michael Kammen • Robert Gwathmey: The Life and Art of a Passionate Observer (1999)
Dorothy Twohig • Papers of George Washington (editorial work) (1998)
James I. Robertson, Jr. • Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend (1997)
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