Lincoln-Preis

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 Oakes	The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
2008	Elizabeth Brown Pryor	Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through his Private Letters
2009	James M. McPherson	Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
2009	Craig Symonds	Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War
2010	Michael Burlingame	Abraham Lincoln: A Life
2011	Eric Foner	The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
2012	Elizabeth D. Leonard	Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky
2012	William C. Harris	Lincoln and the Border States
2013	James Oakes	Freedom 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 Freedom
2020	Elizabeth R. Varon	Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War
2021	David S. Reynolds	Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
2022	Caroline E. Janney	Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox
2023	Jon Meacham	And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
2023	Jonathan W. White	A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
2024	Frances M. Clarke, Rebecca Jo Plant	Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era

Weblinks

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