Lincoln Prize
{{short description|Annual prize recognizing American Civil War scholarship}}
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The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, founded by the late Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman in partnership with Gabor Boritt, Director Emeritus of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. It has been awarded annually since 1991 for "the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or the American Civil War era."{{Cite web|title=Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize {{!}} Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History|url=https://www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-and-events/national-book-prizes/gilder-lehrman-lincoln-prize|access-date=2021-05-30|website=www.gilderlehrman.org}}
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:{{cite web|url=http://www.newswise.com/articles/2012-gilder-lehrman-lincoln-prize-awarded-to-books-that-explore-lincoln-s-relationship-with-border-states-jag-joseph-holt|title=2012 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Awarded to Books That Explore Lincoln's Relationship with Border States, Jag Joseph Holt|work=newswise.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gettysburg.edu/lincolnprize/previous-winners.dot|title=Gettysburg College - Previous Winners|website=www.gettysburg.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925120646/http://www.gettysburg.edu/lincolnprize/previous-winners.dot|archive-date=2018-09-25|url-status=dead}}
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| Year
! Author ! Winning Title |
|---|
| 1991 |
| 1992
| Frederick Douglass |
| 1992
| The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans |
| 1993 |
| 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
| The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln |
| 1996
| Lincoln |
| 1997
| Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s and The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics |
| 1998 |
| 1999
| Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln |
| 2000
| John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger | Runaway Slaves: Rebels in the Plantation |
| 2000
| Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President |
| 2001
| A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 |
| 2002
| Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory |
| 2003
| Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! |
| 2004
| Lincoln |
| 2005
| Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation |
| 2006 |
| 2007
| Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words |
| 2008
|The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics |
| 2008
|Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through his Private Letters |
| 2009
|Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief |
| 2009
|Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War |
| 2010
|Abraham Lincoln: A Life |
| 2011 |
| 2012
|Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky |
| 2012
|Lincoln and the Border States |
| 2013
|Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 |
| 2014 |
| 2014
|Writing the Gettysburg Address |
| 2015
| Harold Holzer{{cite web|url=https://www.gettysburg.edu/lincolnprize/|title=Gettysburg College - Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize|work=gettysburg.edu}} |Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion |
| 2016
|Martha Hodes{{Cite web|url=https://www.gettysburg.edu/lincolnprize/|title=Gettysburg College - Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize|website=www.gettysburg.edu|access-date=2016-04-04}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/books/mourning-lincoln-wins-book-prize.html|title='Mourning Lincoln' Wins Book Prize|work=The New York Times|access-date=2016-04-04}} |
| 2017
|James B. Conroy; Douglas R. Egerton |Conroy, Lincoln's White House: The People's House in Wartime Egerton, Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America |
| 2018
|The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America |
| 2019 |
| 2020 |
| 2021
|''Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times |
| 2022
|Caroline E. Janney |Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox |
| 2023
|Jon Meacham; Jonathan White |Meacham, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle White, A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House |
| 2024
|Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant |Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era |
| 2025
|Edda L. Fields-Black |COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War |
See also
References
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External links
- http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-and-events/national-book-prizes/gilder-lehrman-lincoln-prize
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/national-book-prizes
- http://www.gettysburg.edu/lincolnprize/
- https://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/history/about/faculty/johnson/index.html
- https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300219753/mourning-lincoln
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Category:Historiography of the American Civil War
Category:American history awards