LINCOLN PRIZE

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

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History