Lincoln Forum Announces New Annual Book Prize To Honor Best Lincoln Book of the Year

Originally published March 2019 · p. 23

The Lincoln Forum has created a new $1,000 prize to honor the year’s best book on Abraham Lincoln—or a distinguished work in which Lincoln is a central figure. The book prize will be awarded each year at the Lincoln Forum symposium in Gettysburg, which will next take place November 16-18, 2019. The prize will honor books published from February of the previous year to February of the current year. Review will consider biographies, monographs, works of synthesis and interpretation, edited collections of original papers, and documentary editing projects published in the English language. The new prize takes its place alongside two long-traditional, annual Forum honors: the Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement for lifetime accomplishment in the history field; and the Wendy Allen Award for outstanding achievement by a history organization. Judges for the Forum’s first book prize will be: Dr. Thomas A. Horrocks (Chairman of the Book

Prize Committee), historian, author, and Lincoln Forum executive committee member who has held administrative posts at both Harvard University’s Houghton Library and Brown University’s John Hay Library; Dr. Michelle Krowl, author, Lincoln and Civil War specialist at the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, and Secretary of the Lincoln Forum; and Daniel R. Weinberg, author, manuscripts expert, Forum board member, and longtime proprietor of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago. For more information on the Lincoln Forum Book Prize, contact Dr. Horrocks by email at: [email protected].