The Governor Andrew Award Dinner

The Governor Andrew Award is given each year for outstanding research and writing that has increased the public’s knowledge of the Civil War. At our dinner, hosted by the Seven and Eight Park Street Foundation and the Civil War Committee of the Union Club of Boston, the recipient will be presented with a certificate, and an award of two thousand dollars, following a presentation of their work. Attendees at the dinner often mark this occasion by making a gift to the Foundation.

The award is named in honor of John Albion Andrew, the 25th Governor of Massachusetts, serving between 1861 and 1866, and who was a frequent attendee at Union Club gatherings during and after the Civil War.

Register for the event at the Union Club website.

2024 Recipient

This year’s recipient, Elizabeth R. Varon, is the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia and a member of the executive council of UVA's John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History.

Varon grew up in northern Virginia and attended Swarthmore College for her B.A. and Yale University for her Ph.D. She has taught at Wellesley College and Oxford University. Her books include Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War, which won the 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Her most recent book is Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South (Simon & Schuster, 2023), and her new project is a biography of humanitarian Clara Barton.