2017 Lincoln Prize

[STS Lincolnite]

The co-winners of the 2017 Lincoln Prize have been announced:

James B. Conroy, author of Lincoln’s White House: The People’s House in Wartime (Rowman and Littlefield)

Douglas R. Egerton, author of Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America (Basic Books)

See the link below for more information and to see the other nominees.

https://www.gettysburg.edu/news_events/p...+announced

Congratulations to the winners!

One of the winners, James Conroy, happened to be speaking in Springfield and the Lincoln birthday celebrations so I (along with at least one other member of the discussion group) got to congratulate him personally. Jim is a very nice guy and a really good speaker as well as author. His first book on the Hampton Roads Peace Conference was also fantastic (and I think was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize the year it was published).