Center for Presidential History Book Prize

2025 CPH Book Prize - Accepting Submissions

We are accepting submissions for the 2025 CPH Book Prize. The CPH Book Prize is awarded annually for a distinguished first book published in English, in any aspect in the field of United States presidential history, broadly defined.

The winner of the 2025 CPH Book prize will receive a $2,500 prize and an invitation to deliver the annual CPH Book Prize Lecture at Southern Methodist University during the academic year following the announcement. The CPH will pay all author’s travel expenses and deliver the prize at the lecture.

Submission Deadline is November 15, 2024.

For complete submission guidelines, click here.

Past winners of the CPH Book Prize include:

• 2024 - Sheyda Jahanbani, The Poverty of the World: Rediscovering the Poor at Home and Abroad, 1941-1968 (Oxford UP)
• 2023 - Fritz Bartel, The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism (Harvard UP) 

For questions, please contact the prize administrator at rspitz@smu.edu.