Lincoln Prize

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The 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. Recipients of the $50,000 prize have included:

• 1991 Ken Burns for The Civil War
• 1992 William S. McFeely for Frederick Douglass
• 1992 Charles Royster for The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
• 1993 Kenneth Stampp for The Peculiar Institution
• 1994 (co-winners) Ira Berlin, Barbara Fields, Steven Miller, Joseph Reidy, Leslie Rowland, eds. for Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War
• 1995 Phillip Shaw Paludan for The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
• 1996 David Herbert Donald for his biography Lincoln
• 1997 Don Fehrenbacher for Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s and The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
• 1998 James M. McPherson for For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
• 1999 Douglas L. Wilson for Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
• 2000 John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger for Runaway Slaves: Rebels in the Plantation
• 2000 Allen C. Guelzo for Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
• 2001 Russell F. Weigley for A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865
• 2002 David W. Blight for Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
• 2003 George C. Rable for his book Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
• 2004 Richard Carwardine for Lincoln
• 2005 Allen C. Guelzo for his book Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
• 2006 Doris Kearns Goodwin for her book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
• 2007 Douglas Wilson for his book Lincoln's Sword

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History