March 12, 2025
2025 CDA Book Award Winners
The Colonial Dames of America has named the winners of its 2025 Book Awards. Karen Kane is Chairman of the CDA Book Awards Committee.
The 2025 CDA Book Award recipients are:
Award:
The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman “Not Apt to be Intimidated”
By: John L. Smith, Jr.
Citation:
Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
By: Jennet Conant
Young Reader:
The Soldier’s Friend: Walt Whitman’s Extraordinary Service in the American Civil War
Author: Gary Golio
Illustrator: E.B. Lewis
