Lincoln Prize

The Lincoln Prize is awarded annually by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College for the finest scholarly work on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or a related subject.

Year

Winner

Awarded for

1991	Ken Burns	The Civil War
1992	William S. McFeely	Frederick Douglass
1993	Kenneth Stampp	The Peculiar Institution
1994	Ira Berlin, Barbara Fields, Steven Miller, Joseph Reidy, Leslie Rowland	Free at Last
1995	Philip Shaw Paludan	The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
1996	David Donald	Lincoln
1997	Don E. Fehrenbacher	Lifetime Achievement
1998	James 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
	Allen C. Guelzo	Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
2001	Russell F. Weigley	A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865
2002	David Blight	Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
2003	George C. Rable	Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
2004	Richard J. Carwardine	Lincoln: Profiles in Power
2005	Allen C. Guelzo	Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
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
	Elizabeth Brown Pryor	Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters

Source: Lincoln and Soldiers Institute, Gettysburg College.

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