2021 Hay-Nicolay Prize Submissions open

[David Lockmiller]

2021 Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize Committee Accepting Submissions Until Oct. 1, 2020

The Abraham Lincoln Institute (ALI) and the Abraham Lincoln Association (ALA) invite nominations and submissions for the 2021 Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize, which includes a $1000 honorarium.

For more information and for lists of past winners of each prize, please visit www.lincolninstitute.org/ or http://abrahamlincolnassociation.org/about-us/awards-2/.

The 2012 winner was Cynthia Nicoletti and the subject of her dissertation:

“The Great Question of War: The Legal Status of Secession in the Aftermath of the American Civil War, 1865-1869,” University of Virginia.

This was the same issue that President Lincoln addressed in his July 4, 1861 Message to Congress. See the thread "Maryland constitutional questions after Fort Sumter."