Publications

This page lists recent, published scholarship on Abraham Lincoln. This list includes winners of, and submissions to, the Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College.

2008

Winners of the 2008 Lincoln Prize:
Oakes, James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.

Pryor, Elizabeth Brown. Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters. New York: Viking Adult, 2007.

Honorable Mention of the 2008 Lincoln Prize:
Manning, Chandra. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

For a list of all 2008 submissions to the Lincoln Prize, click here.

2007

Winner of the 2007 Lincoln Prize:
Wilson, Douglas. Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words. New York: Vintage, 2006.

Finalists of the 2007 Lincoln Prize:
Hodes, Martha. The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.

Stout, Harry. Upon the Alter of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War. New York: Viking Adult, 2006.

For a list of all 2007 submissions to the Lincoln Prize, click here.

2006

Winner of the 2006 Lincoln Prize:
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Finalists of the 2006 Lincoln Prize:
Bundy, Carol. The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-1864. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005.

Creighton, Margaret. The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History - Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Miller, Richard. Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2005.

For a list of all 2006 submissions to the Lincoln Prize, click here.

2005

Winner of the 2005 Lincoln Prize:
Guelzo, Allen. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Second Place:
Holzer, Harold. Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Finalists:
Martin, Jonahthan D. Divided Mystery: Slave Hiring in the American South. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Schultz, Jane A. Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

For a list of all 2005 submissions to the Lincoln Prize, click here.

2004

Winner of the 2004 Lincoln Prize:
Carwardine, Richard J. Lincoln. Pearson Education Ltd., 2003.

Special Achievement Award:
Simon, John Y. The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.

Finalist:
Hahn, Steven. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Boston: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2003.

For a list of all 2004 submissions to the Lincoln Prize, click here.

2003

Winner of the 2003 Lincoln Prize:
Rable, George C. Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Second Place:
Stauffer, John. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Honorable Mention:
Fitzgerald, Michael. Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860-1890. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.

For a list of all 2003 submissions to the Lincoln Prize, click here.

2002

Winner of the 2002 Lincoln Prize:
Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Boston: Harvard University, 2001.

Honorable Mentions:
Fahs, Alice. The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North & South, 1861-1865. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Winkle, Kenneth. The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln. Dallas: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2001.

For a list of all 2002 submissions to the Lincoln Prize, click here.

2001

Winner of the 2001 Lincoln Prize:
Weigley, Russell F. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Second Place:
Richards, Leonard L. The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.

Finalist:
Bradley, Mark. This Astounding Close Road to Bennett Place. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

For a list of 2001 submissions to the Lincoln Prize, click here.

2000

Winners of the 2000 Lincoln Prize:
Franklin, John Hope and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels in the Plantation. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Guelzo, Allen. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999.

Second Place:
Holt, Michael. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 1999.

For a list of all 2000 submissions to the Lincoln Prize, click here.