… Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf Publishers). The $25,000 annual award is the most generous history prize in the field. The … Jean Fagan Yellin, 2004; Laurent Dubois, 2005; Rebecca J. Scott, 2006; Christopher Leslie Brown, 2007; and Stephanie E. Smallwood, 2008. The award is named for Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), the slave …