Lincoln Prize

The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman and administered by Gettysburg College, has been awarded annually since 1991 for the best non-fiction historical work of the year on the American Civil War. It is named for U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.^[1]

Laureates

The prize has been split equally between two entries on six occasions (1992, 2000, 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2014). Recipients of the $50,000 prize have included:

Year	Author	Winning Title
1991	Ken Burns	The Civil War
1992	William S. McFeely	Frederick Douglass
1992	Charles Royster	The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
1993	Kenneth Stampp	The Peculiar Institution
1994	Ira Berlin, Barbara Fields, Steven Miller, Joseph Reidy, Leslie Rowland, eds.	Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War
1995	Phillip Shaw Paludan	The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
1996	David Herbert Donald	Lincoln
1997	Don Fehrenbacher	Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s and The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
1998	James M. McPherson	For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
1999	Douglas L. Wilson	Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
2000	John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger	Runaway Slaves: Rebels in the Plantation
2000	Allen C. Guelzo	Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
2001	Russell F. Weigley	A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865
2002	David W. Blight	Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
2003	George C. Rable	Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
2004	Richard Carwardine	Lincoln
2005	Allen C. Guelzo	Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
2006	Doris Kearns Goodwin	Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
2007	Douglas L. Wilson	Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words
2008	James Oakes	The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
2008	Elizabeth Brown Pryor	Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through his Private Letters
2009	James M. McPherson	Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
2009	Craig Symonds	Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War
2010	Michael Burlingame	Abraham Lincoln: A Life
2011	Eric Foner	The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
2012	Elizabeth D. Leonard	Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky
2012	William C. Harris	Lincoln and the Border States
2013	James Oakes	Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
2014	Allen C. Guelzo	Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
2014	Martin P. Johnson	Writing the Gettysburg Address
2015	Harold Holzer[2]	Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
2016	Martha Hodes[3][4]	Mourning Lincoln

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See also

• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
• Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
• American Civil War

References

1. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. For Historians. Fellowships and Prizes
2. "Gettysburg College - Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize". gettysburg.edu.
3. "Gettysburg College - Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize". www.gettysburg.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
4. "‘Mourning Lincoln’ Wins Book Prize". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
5. "2012 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Awarded to Books That Explore Lincoln's Relationship with Border States, Jag Joseph Holt". newswise.com.

External links

• http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
• http://www.gettysburg.edu/civilwar/newsdetail.dot?inode=1053567
• http://www.gettysburg.edu/civilwar/prizes_andscholarships/lincoln_prize/