Join the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in celebrating the 2021 winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, David S. Reynolds, a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, prizewinner for his book Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times. Reynolds’s book was named as one of the Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year.

James G. Basker, president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, said, “From one of the strongest pools of finalist books ever in the history of the Lincoln Prize, David Reynolds’s book emerged as this year’s winner—a book that accomplished the impossible, to show us something new about Lincoln while also giving us a rich history of the cultural influences that shaped his world view and gave him his unsurpassed common touch with ordinary Americans.”

The event will also celebrate the 2020 prizewinner, Elizabeth Varon, for her book Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War. The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, sponsored jointly by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Gettysburg College, awards $50,000 annually to the year’s best work in English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or the American Civil War era.

We invite you to join us for this event, which will feature remarks from both prizewinners as well as a live Q&A with audience members. RSVP here.

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