… 30, 2008 University of Washington, Seattle, Professor Wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize New Haven, … Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf Publishers). The $25,000 annual award is the most generous history prize in the field. The … J. Scott, 2006; and Christopher Leslie Brown, 2007. The award is named for Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), the slave …