Lincoln Prize
The Lincoln Prize (Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize) is since 1991 the Civil War Institute of Gettysburg College for outstanding work about the American Civil War awarded. It was donated by investment bankers Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman in connection with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, which also awards the Frederick Douglass Prize for books on slavery in America and the George Washington Book Prize for books on the early days of the United States. The award is endowed with $ 50,000 and named after Abraham Lincoln .
Award winners
| year | author | Excellent work |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Ken Burns | The Civil War (documentary) |
| 1992 | William S. McFeely | Frederick Douglass |
| 1992 | Charles Royster | The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans |
| 1993 | Kenneth M. Stampp | The Peculiar Institution |
| 1994 | Ira Berlin , Barbara J. Fields , Steven Miller , Joseph Reidy , Leslie Rowland | Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War |
| 1995 | Phillip S. Paludan | The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln |
| 1996 | David Herbert Donald | Lincoln |
| 1997 | Don E. 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 US 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 |
| 2014 | Steven Spielberg | Special Achievement Award for Lincoln (feature film) |
| 2015 | Harold Holzer | Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion |
| 2016 | Martha Hodes | Mourning Lincoln |
| 2017 | James B. Conroy | Lincoln's White House: The People's House in Wartime |
| 2017 | Douglas R. Egerton | Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America |
| 2017 | Douglas L. Wilson , Rodney O. Davis (Special Achievement Award) | Herndon on Lincoln: Letters |
| 2018 | Edward Ayers | The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America |
| 2019 | David Blight | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom |
| 2020 | Elizabeth R. Varon | Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War |