2008 Lincoln Prize

Adams	Jessica	Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Post-Slavery Plantation	The University of North Carolina Press
Alexander	Bevin	How the South Could Hve Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors that Led to Confederate Defeat	Crown Publishing Group
Axelrod	Alan	The Horrid Pit: The Battle of the Crater, The Civil War's Cruelest Mission	Carroll & Graf
Bacon	Jacqueline	Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper	Lexington Books
Baker	T. Lindsay, Editor	Confederate Guerilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph M. Bailey	University of Arkansas Press
Baldwin	John, and Ron Powers	Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship	Crown Publishing Group
Barney	William L.	The Making of A Confederate	Oxford University Press, USA
Bender	Robert Patrick	Like Grass Before the Scythe: The Life and Death of Sgt. William Rommel, 121st New York Infantry	University of Alabama Press
Billingsley	Andrew and James E. Clyburn	Yearning To Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families	University of South Carolina Press
Bragg	C.L., Charles D. Ross, Gordon A. Blaker, Stephanie A.T. Jacobe, and Theodore P. Savas	Never for Want of Powder: The Confederate Powder Works in Augusta, Georgia	Univeristy of South Carolina Press
Brandt	Dennis	From Home Guards to Heroes: The 87th Pennsylvania and its Civil War Community	University of Missouri Press
Brandt	Nat	In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Willimson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson	South Carolina Press
Brown	Peter, Editor	Take Sides With the Truth: The Postwar Letters of John Singleton Mosby to Samuel F. Chapman	University Press of Kentucky
Burkhardt	George	Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath: No Quarter in the Civil War	Southern Illinois University
Burlingame	Michael	Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay	Southern Illinois University
Burton	Orville	The Age of Lincoln	Hill and Wang
Cahn	Susan	Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age	Harvard University Press
Carnahan	Burrus M.	Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War	University Press of Kentucky
Cisco	Walter	War Crimes Against Southern Civilians	Pelican Publishing Company
Confer	Clarissa	The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War	University of Oklahoma Press
Cook	Robert	Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965	Louisiana State University Press
Craughwell	Thomas	Stealing Lincoln's Body	Belknap Press
Cross	Coy	Lincoln's Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships	Northern Illinois University Press
Cunningham	Edward, Gary Joiner, and Timothy Smith	Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862	Savas Beatie
Dammann	Gordon E.	Images of Civil War Medicine: A Photographic History	Demos Medical Publishing
Dee	Christine	Ohio's War: The Civil War In Documents	Ohio University Press
DeLombard	Jeannine Marie	Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolition, and Print Culture	The University of North Carolina Press
Denton	Sally	Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Fremont. The couple whose power, politics, and love shaped nineteenth-century America	Bloomsbury USA
Dirck	Brian, Editor	Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race	Northern Illinois University Press
Dirck	Brian	Lincoln the Lawyer	University of Illinois Press
Downing	David	South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy	Cumberland House Publishing
Duncan	Richard	Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861-1865	Louisiana State University Press
Einolf	Christopher J.	George Thomas: Virginian for the Union (Campaigns and Commanders0	University of Oklahoma Press
Emerson	Jason	The Madness of Mary Lincoln	Southern Illinois University
Engs	Corey M. Brooks and Robert F.	Their Patriotic Duty: The civil War Letters of Brown County, Ohio (North's Civil War)	Fordham University Press
Fenster	Julie	The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder and the Making of a Great President	Palgrave MacMillan
Ferguson	Andrew	Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America	Atlantic Monthly Press
Field	Ron	American Civil War Fortifications (3): The Mississippi and River Forts	Osprey Publishing
Fitzgerald	Michael	Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South	Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
Forbes	Robert Pierce	The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America	The University of North Carolina Press
Forehand, Jr.	Thomas	Robert E. Lee's Softer Side	Pelican Publishing Company
Fox	Stephen	Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama
Fredriksen	John C.	Almanacs of American Wars: Civil War Almanac	Facts on File
Freehling	William	The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861	Oxford University Press, USA
Frost	Karolyn	I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad	Farrar, Strous, and Giroux
Hamilton	Daniel	The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and Confederacy During the Civil War	University of Chicago Press
Harris	William	Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency	University Press of Kansas
Hess	Earl J.	Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland campaign	The University of North Carolina Press
Hoffman	Mark R.	My Brave Mechanics: The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War	Wayne State University Press
Holzer	Harold, and Sara Vaugh Gabbard, Editors	Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment	Southern Illinois University
Holzer	Harold, John Y. Simon, and Vogel Dawn	Lincoln Revisited	Fordham University Press
Hubard	Robert T. & Thomas P. Nanzig	The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman: Lt. Robert T. Hubard Jr.	University of Alabama Press
Humphreys	Margaret	Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War	Johns Hopkins University Press
Hunter	Jerry	Welsh Writing from the American Civil War: Sons of Arthur, Children of Lincoln	University of Wales Press
Hurst	Jack	Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign that Decided the Civil War	Perseus Books Group
Isbell	Timothy T.	Shiloh and corinth: Sentinels of Stone	University Press Of Mississippi
Jabour	Anya	Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South	The University of North Carolina Press
James	McPherson	This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War	Oxford University Press, USA
James	Jennifer	A Freedom Bought With Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II	The University of North Carolina Press
Jayne	Allen	Lincoln and the American Manifesto	Prometheus Books
Joiner	Gary	Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink: Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs of the Red River Campaigns, 1863-1864	University of Tennessee Press
Joinson	Carla	Civil War Doctor: The Story of Mary Edwards Walker	Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Kaye	Anthony	Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South	The University of North Carolina Press
Lankford	Nelson	Cry Havoc!: The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861	Viking Adult
Leepson	Marc	Desperate Engagement: How a Little Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History	Thomas Dunne Books
Lehman	James O.	Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War (Young Center Books in Anabaptist	The Johns Hopkins University Press
Levy	Stanley	A. Lincoln: The Man	BookSurge Publishing
Logue	Larry M. & Michael Barton	The Civil War Veteran: A Historical Reader	New York University Press
Lowe	David, Editor	Meade's Army: The Private Notebooks of LT. Col. Theodore Lyman	Kent State University Press
Lowry	Beverly	Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life, a Biography	Doubleday
Lyftogt	Kenneth L.	Iowa's Forgotten General: Matthew Mark Trumbull and the Civil War	University of Iowa Press
Manning	Chandra	What This Cruel War was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War	Knopf
Martinez	Susan	The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln	New Page Books
McBride	Mary, Ann McLaurin	Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer	Louisiana State University Press
McCaslin	Richard	Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War	University of Arkansas Press
Melton	Brian	Sherman's Forgotten General: Henry W. Slocum	University of Missouri Press
Metaxas	Eric	Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery	Harper San Francisco
Miller	Richard	Lincoln and His World: The Early Years Birth to Illinois Legislature	Stackpole Books
Miller	George Knox & Richard M. McCurry	Uncompromising Secessionist: The Civil War of George Knox Miller, Eight (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry	University of Alabama Press
Mintz	Stephen & John Stauffer	The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the ambiguities of American Reform	University of Massachusetts Press
Morgan	Jo-Ann	Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture	University of Missouri Press
Mueller	Doris	M. Jeff Thompson: Missouri's Swamp Fox of the Confederacy	University of Missouri Press
Mulligan, Jr.	William H.	A Badger Boy in Blue: The Civil War Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke
Neely	Mark E.	The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction	Harvard University Press
Nelson	Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff	A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in the America's Civil War	Oxford University Press, USA
Oakes	James	The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics	W. W. Norton
O'Brien	Cormac	Secret Lives Civil War 8pk	Quirk Books
O'Donovan	Susan	Becoming Free in the Cotton South	Harvard University Press
Park	Carl	Ironclad Down: USS Merrimack - CSS Virginia from Design to Destruction	U.S. Naval Institute Press
Patchan	Scott	Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign	University of Nebraska Press
Petersen	Paul	Quantrill in Texas: The Forgotten Campaign	Cumberland House Publishing
Phillips	Jason	Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility	University of Georgia Press
Poleskie	Stephen	The Balloonist: The Story of T.S.C. Lowe--Inventor, Scientist, Magician, and Father of the U.S. Air Force	Frederic C. Biel
Potter	James, and Edith Robbins	Marching with the First Nebraska: A Civil War Diary	University of Oklahoma Press
Pryor	Elizabeth	Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters	Viking Adult
Rediker	Marcus	The Slave Ship: A Human History
Reynolds	Donald E.	Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)	Louisiana State University Press
Rhea	Gordon C.	In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee: The Wilderness Through Cold Harbor	Louisiana State University Press
Richards	Leonard	The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War	Knopf
Richardson	Heather	West From Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War	Yale University Press
Ricks	Mary Kay	Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad	William Morrow
Robinson	Warren	Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg	University of Nebraska Press
Roland	Charles P.	History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History	University Press of Kentucky
Sachsman	David	Memory and Myth: The civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold Mountain	Purdue University Press
Schaller	Mary W.	Soldiering for Glory: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Frank Schaller, Twenty-second Mississippi Infantry	University of South Carolina Press
Schneider	Carl	American Experience: Slavery in America	Facts on File
Sellmeyer	Deryl P.	Joe Shelby's Iron Brigade	Pelican Publishing Company
Sheehan-Dean	Aaron	Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia (Civil War America)	The University of North Carolina Press
Smith	David	Sherman's Mrach to the Sea 1864: Atlanta to Savannah	Osprey Publishing
Snay	Mitchell	Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and nationality in the Era of Reconstruction 9conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)	Louisiana State University Press
Steers, Jr.	Edward	Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated With Our Greatest President	University Press of Kentucky
Stoddard	William Osborn, and Harold Holzer	Lincoln's White House Secretary: The Adventurous Life of William O. Stoddard	Southern Illinois University
Tobin	Jacqueline, with Hettie Jones	From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad	Doubleday
Towne	Stephen E.	A Fierce, Wild Joy: The civil War Letters of Colonel Edward j. Wood, 48th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Voices of The civil War)	University of Tennessee Press
Trachtenberg	Alan	Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas	Hill and Wang
Van Der Linden	Frank	The Dark Intrigue: The True Story of a Sicil War Conspiracy	Fulcrum Publishing
Webber	Philip	Zoar in the Civil War	Kent State University Press
Wheeler	Tom	Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
Zall	Paul, Editor	Abe Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter: Humorous Stories by and about Abraham Lincoln	University of Tennessee Press
	Daniel Walker	What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848