Der Lincoln-Preis (Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize) wird seit 1991 vom Civil War Institute des Gettysburg College für herausragende Arbeiten über den Sezessionskrieg verliehen. Er wurde von den Investmentbankern Richard Gilder und Lewis Lehrman gestiftet in Zusammenhang mit dem Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, das auch den Frederick Douglass Prize für Bücher über Sklaverei in Amerika und den George Washington Book Prize für Bücher über die Gründungsphase der USA vergibt. Der Preis ist mit 50.000 Dollar dotiert und nach Abraham Lincoln benannt.
Preisträger
Jahr Autor Ausgezeichnetes Werk 1991 Ken Burns The Civil War (Dokumentarfilm) 1992 William S. McFeely Frederick Douglass 1992 Charles Royster The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans 1993 Kenneth M. Stampp The Peculiar Institution 1994 Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven Miller, Joseph Reidy, Leslie Rowland Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War 1995 Phillip S. Paludan The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln 1996 David Herbert Donald Lincoln 1997 Don E. 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 und 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: The Presidency and the Power of Words 2008 James OakesThe Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics 2008 Elizabeth Brown PryorReading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through his Private Letters 2009 James M. McPhersonTried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief 2009 Craig SymondsLincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War 2010 Michael BurlingameAbraham Lincoln: A Life 2011 Eric FonerThe Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery 2012 Elizabeth D. LeonardLincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky 2012 William C. HarrisLincoln and the Border States 2013 James OakesFreedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865 2014 Allen C. Guelzo Gettysburg: The Last Invasion 2014 Martin P. Johnson Writing the Gettysburg Address 2014 Steven Spielberg Special Achievement Award für Lincoln (Spielfilm) 2015 Harold Holzer Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion 2016 Martha Hodes Mourning Lincoln 2017 James B. Conroy Lincoln’s White House: The People’s House in Wartime 2017 Douglas R. Egerton Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America 2017 Douglas L. Wilson, Rodney O. Davis (Special Achievement Award) Herndon on Lincoln: Letters 2018 Edward Ayers The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America 2019 David Blight Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom2020Elizabeth R. VaronArmies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War2021David S. ReynoldsAbe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times2022Caroline E. JanneyEnds of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox2023Jon MeachamAnd There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle 2023Jonathan W. WhiteA House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House2024Frances M. Clarke, Rebecca Jo PlantOf Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era2025Edda L. Fields-BlackCOMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War2026Richard CarwardineRighteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union
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Kategorie:Geschichtswissenschaftlicher Preis Kategorie:Gedenken an den Sezessionskrieg Kategorie:Wissenschaftspreis (Vereinigte Staaten) Kategorie:Erstverleihung 1991 Kategorie:Abraham Lincoln als Namensgeber