Books

Lincoln Prize (awards)

This award was given to 31 books.


  1. Civil War America

    Lincoln's Forgotten Ally

    Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky

    by Elizabeth D. Leonard

    Year: 2012
  2. Lincoln and the Border States

    Preserving the Union

    by William C. Harris

    Year: 2012
  3. The Fiery Trial

    Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    by Eric Foner

    Year: 2011
  4. Abraham Lincoln (collective work)

    A Life

    by Michael Burlingame

    Year: 2010
  5. Tried by War

    Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

    by James M. McPherson

    Year: 2009
  6. The Radical and the Republican

    Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

    by James Oakes

    Year: 2008
  7. Reading the Man

    A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters

    by Elizabeth Brown Pryor

    Year: 2008
  8. Lincoln's Sword

    The Presidency and the Power of Words

    by Douglas L. Wilson

    Year: 2007
  9. Women at the Front

    Hospital Workers in Civil War America

    by Jane E. Schultz

    Year: 2005
    Finalist
  10. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

    The End of Slavery in America

    by Allen C. Guelzo

    Year: 2005
  11. Lincoln at Cooper Union

    The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President

    by Harold Holzer

    Year: 2005
    Finalist
  12. The Black Hearts of Men

    Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race

    by John Stauffer

    Year: 2003
    Finalist
  13. Race and Reunion

    The Civil War in American Memory

    by David W. Blight

    Year: 2002
  14. A Great Civil War

    A Military and Political History 1861-1865

    by Russell Weigley

    Year: 2001
  15. The Slave Power

    The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860

    by Leonard L. Richards

    Year: 2001
    Finalist
  16. Runaway Slaves

    Rebels on the Plantation

    by John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger

    Year: 2000
  17. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party

    Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War

    by Michael F. Holt

    Year: 2000
    Finalist
  18. Honor's Voice

    The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln

    by Douglas L. Wilson

    Year: 1999
  19. For Cause and Comrades

    Why Men Fought in the Civil War

    by James M. McPherson

    Year: 1998
  20. Civil War America

    Andersonville

    The Last Depot

    by William Marvel

    Year: 1995
    Finalist
  21. Free at Last

    A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War

    by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy

    Year: 1994
  22. Decision in the West

    The Atlanta Campaign of 1864

    by Albert E. Castel

    Year: 1993
    Rank: 2nd
  23. The Destructive War

    William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans

    by Charles Royster

    Year: 1992
  24. The Civil War

    An Illustrated History

    by Geoffrey C. Ward

    Year: 1991

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