Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize

The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Gettysburg College, is awarded annually for the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln or the American Civil War era. The $50,000 prize was established in 1990 by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, in partnership with Dr. Gabor Boritt, Director Emeritus of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.

Books published in 2012 must be submitted for consideration by November 1, 2012. Seven (7) copies of the nominated work should be sent to: The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, 300 N. Washington Street, Campus Box 435, Gettysburg, PA 17325. For more information, please call 717-337-8255 or email lincolnprize@gettysburg.edu.

2012

William C. Harris
Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union (Kansas)

Elizabeth D. Leonard
Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (UNC Press)

2011

Eric Foner
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (Norton)

2010

Michael Burlingame
Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Johns Hopkins University Press)

2009

James M. McPherson
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (Penguin)

Craig L. Symonds
Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War (Oxford University Press)

2008

James Oakes
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (W. W. Norton)

Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters (Viking)

2007

Douglas L. Wilson
Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006

Doris Kearns Goodwin
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Simon & Schuster)

2005

Allen C. Guelzo
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (Simon & Schuster)

2004

Richard J. Carwardine
Lincoln (Pearson Education Ltd.)

2003

George C. Rable
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (University of North Carolina Press)

2002

David W. Blight
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Harvard University Press)

2001

Russell F. Weigley
A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861–1865 (Indiana University Press)

2000

John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger
Runaway Slaves: Rebels in the Plantation (Oxford University Press)

Allen C. Guelzo
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (William B. Eerdmans)

1999

Douglas L. Wilson
Honor’s Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (Alfred A. Knopf)

1998

James McPherson
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (Oxford University Press)

1997

Don Fehrenbacher
Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s and The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (Stanford University Press)

1996

David Donald
Lincoln (Touchstone Books)

1995

Phillip Shaw Paludan
The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (University Press of Kansas)

1994

(co-winners) Ira Berlin, Barbara Fields, Steven Miller, Joseph Reidy, Leslie Rowland, eds.
Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War (New Press)

1993

Kenneth Stampp
The Peculiar Institution (Vintage Books)

1992

William S. McFeely
Frederick Douglass (W.W. Norton & Company)

Charles Royster
The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans (Vintage Books)

1991

Ken Burns
The Civil War (Howell Press)