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:

Year	Author	Winning Title
1991	Kenneth Burns	The Civil War
1992	William S. McFeely	Frederick Douglass
1992	Charles Royster	The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
1993	Kenneth Stampp	The Peculiar Institution
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	Phillip Shaw Paludan	The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
1996	David Herbert Donald	Lincoln
1997	Don 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
2008	James Oakes	The Radical and the Republican Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History   This award-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.