The Lincoln Prize

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2018     The thin light of freedom : the Civil War and emancipation in the heart of America by Edward L. Ayers.
2017     Lincoln's White House : the people's house in wartime by James B. Conroy; Thunder at the gates : the black Civil War regiments that redeemed America by Douglas R. Egerton
2016     Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes
2015     Lincoln and the power of the press : the war for public opinion by Harold Holzer
2014     Gettysburg : the last invasion by Allen C. Guelzo; Writing the Gettysburg Address by Martin P. Johnson
2013     Freedom national : the destruction of slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 by James Oakes
2012     Lincoln and the Border States : preserving the Union by William C. Harris; Lincoln's forgotten ally : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky by Elizabeth D. Leonard
2011     The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery by Eric Foner
2010     Abraham Lincoln : a life by Michael Burlingame
2009     Tried by war : Abraham Lincoln as commander in chief by James McPherson and Lincoln and his admirals : Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War by Craig Symonds
2008     The radical and the Republican : Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the triumph of antislavery politics by James Oakes; Reading the man : a portrait of Robert E. Lee through his private letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
2007     Lincoln's sword : the presidency and the power of words by Douglas L. Wilson
2006     Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
2005     Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation : the end of slavery in America by Allen C. Guelzo
2004     Lincoln by Richard J. Carwardine
2003     Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! by George C. Rable
2002     Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory by David Blight
2001     A great Civil War : a military and political history, 1861-1865 by Russell F. Weigley
2000     Runaway slaves : rebels on the plantation by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger; Abraham Lincoln : redeemer President by Allen C. Guelzo
1999     Honor's voice : the transformation of Abraham Lincoln by Douglas L. Wilson
1998     For cause and comrades : why men fought in the Civil War by Jim McPherson
1997     Don Fehrenbacher, Lifetime Achievement with special recognition of Prelude to greatness; Lincoln in the 1850s and The Dred Scott Case : its significance in American law and politics
1996     Lincoln by David Donald
1995     The presidency of Abraham Lincoln by Phillip Shaw Paludan
1994     Free at last : a documentary history of slavery, freedom, and the Civil War, edited by Ira Berlin, Barbara Fields, Steven Miller, Joseph Reidy, Leslie Rowland
1993     Kenneth Stampp, Lifetime Achievement with special recognition of The peculiar institution : slavery in the ante-bellum South
1992     Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely; The destructive war : William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans by Charles Royster
1991     The Civil War : an illustrated history, narrative by Geoffrey C. Ward ; based on a documentary filmscript by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, and Ken Burns ; with contributions by Don E. Fehrenbacher ... [et al.]