The Lincoln Prize, endowed by Richard Gilder

Richard Gilder

Richard Gilder, co-founder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, heads the brokerage firm Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co. The firm's specialty is trading leveraged stocks and shortselling. After working at the brokerage firm of A.G. Becker & Co., Gilder founded the firm now known as...

 and Lewis Lehrman

Lewis Lehrman

For the Texas judge, see Debra Lehrmann.Lewis E. "Lew" Lehrman is an investment banker who actively supports the ongoing study of American history from a conservative perspective. He was presented the National Humanities Medal at the White House in 2005 for his scholarly contributions...

 and administered by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College

Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College

The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College is a non-profit organization created to promote the study of the Civil War Era. The Institute was founded in 1982 by historian and Gettysburg College professor Gabor Boritt, an Abraham Lincoln and American Civil War scholar...

, has been awarded annually since 1991 for the best non-fiction historical work of the year on the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

. It is named for U.S. President Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

.

Laureates

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

Year	Author	Winning Title
1991	Ken Burns Ken Burns Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs...	The Civil War The Civil War (documentary) The Civil War is a documentary film created by Ken Burns about the American Civil War. It was first broadcast on PBS on five consecutive nights from Sunday, September 23 to Thursday, September 27, 1990. Forty million viewers watched it during its initial broadcast, making it the most-watched...
1992	William S. McFeely William S. McFeely William S. McFeely was a professor of history before his retirement in 1997.He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1952, and Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1966. He studied there with, among others, C. Vann Woodward, whose book "The Strange Career of Jim Crow" was a staple...	Frederick Douglass
1992	Charles Royster Charles Royster Charles Royster is an American historian, and Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University.-Life:He graduated from University of California, Berkeley with an A.B. in 1966, an M.A...	The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
1993	Kenneth Stampp	The Peculiar Institution
1994	Ira Berlin Ira Berlin Ira Berlin is an American historian, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, and a past President of the Organization of American Historians. Berlin is the author of such books as Many Thousands Gone and Generations of Captivity.-Biography:Berlin received his Ph.D.... , 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 David Herbert Donald - Career :Majoring in history and sociology, Donald earned his bachelor degree from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. He earned his PhD in 1946 under the eminent, leading Lincoln scholar, James G. Randall at the University of Illinois...	Lincoln
1997	Don Fehrenbacher Don E. Fehrenbacher Don Edward Fehrenbacher was an American historian.-Biography:Born in Sterling, Illinois, he was a well known historian of 19th century United States history. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. In 1979, he won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book about the Dred Scott Decision...	Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s and The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
1998	James M. McPherson James M. McPherson James M. McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, his most famous book...	For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
1999	Douglas L. Wilson Douglas L. Wilson Douglas L. Wilson is a professor and co-director of Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College.Wilson is the George A. Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of English at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He co-directs the along with his colleague Rodney O...	Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
2000	John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin was a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and...  and Loren Schweninger	Runaway Slaves: Rebels in the Plantation
2000	Allen C. Guelzo Allen C. Guelzo Allen Carl Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce III Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College, where he serves as Director of the Civil War Era Studies Program.Guelzo was born in Yokohama, Japan...	Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
2001	Russell F. Weigley Russell Weigley Russell Frank Weigley , PhD, was the Distinguished University Professor of History at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a noted military historian. His research and teaching interests centered on American and world military history, World War II, and the American Civil War.Weigley...	A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865
2002	David W. Blight David W. Blight David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University. Blight was the Class of 1959 Professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years.-Life:...	Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
2003	George C. Rable George C. Rable George C. Rable is the Charles Summersell Professor of Southern History at the University of Alabama. His 2002 book Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!, is notable for winning the 2003 Lincoln Prize, a $50,000 award for excellence in Civil War scholarship...	Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
2004	Richard Carwardine Richard Carwardine Professor Richard Carwardine MA DPhil FRHistS FLSW FBA is president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and was formerly Rhodes Professor of American History at St Catherine's College, Oxford. Before this he was Professor of American History at the University of Sheffield. He specialises in the early...	Lincoln
2005	Allen C. Guelzo Allen C. Guelzo Allen Carl Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce III Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College, where he serves as Director of the Civil War Era Studies Program.Guelzo was born in Yokohama, Japan...	Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
2006	Doris Kearns Goodwin Doris Kearns Goodwin Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer and historian, and an oft-seen political commentator. She is the author of biographies of several U.S...	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 Elizabeth Brown Pryor Elizabeth Brown Pryor is an American diplomat and historian. In 2008, Pryor was awarded the Lincoln Prize for Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through his Private Letters. She shared the honor with James Oakes, who won for The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham...	Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through his Private Letters
2009	James M. McPherson James M. McPherson James M. McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, his most famous book...	Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
2009	Craig Symonds Craig Symonds Craig Lee Symonds is a retired professor and chairman of the history department at the United States Naval Academy...	Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War
2010	Michael Burlingame Michael Burlingame (historian) Michael Burlingame is an American historian, and May Buckley Sadowski '19 Professor Emeritus of History at Connecticut College.He is Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, at University of Illinois, Springfield.-Life:...	Abraham Lincoln: A Life
2011	Eric Foner Eric Foner Eric Foner is an American historian. On the faculty of the Department of History at Columbia University since 1982, he writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography...	The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

See also

• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
  Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
  The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, founded in New York by Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman in 1994, was set up to promote the study and love of American history.The Institute serves teachers, students, scholars, and the general public...
  
  
• Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
  Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
  The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College is a non-profit organization created to promote the study of the Civil War Era. The Institute was founded in 1982 by historian and Gettysburg College professor Gabor Boritt, an Abraham Lincoln and American Civil War scholar...
  
  
• American Civil War
  American Civil War
  The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
  
  

External links

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