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 Guelzo for his book Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
2006 Doris Kearns Goodwin for her book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln