The 2008 Lincoln Award

[william42]

Authors to share Lincoln award


February 16, 2008

THE WASHINGTON TIMES - Two books offering fresh and provocative insights into the lives of three of the Civil War era's most compelling figures — Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Robert E. Lee — will share the 2008 Lincoln Prize, the most generous and prestigious award in the field of American history.

The winners of this year's prize are James Oakes of the City University of New York for "The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics" (W.W. Norton) and Elizabeth Brown Pryor for "Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters" (Viking).

Each author will receive a $20,000 cash award along with a bronze cast of Augustus St. Gaudens' larger-than-life portrait sculpture of Abraham Lincoln.

Honorable mention and a $10,000 prize will go to Chandra Manning of Georgetown University for the book "What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War" (Alfred A. Knopf).

Announcement of the Lincoln Prize winners for the year's best books on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War was made by the Lincoln & Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College, which administers the yearly awards. The $50,000 annual prize was co-founded and endowed by business leaders and philanthropists Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, the principals of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York.

The Lincoln Prize will be formally awarded at a dinner at the Yale Club in New York on April 1.

http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080216/CIVILWAR/431082643

[5fish]

Radical Republicans
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers

These names were used to describe the people trying to bring suffrage to freed slaves, bring education to freed slaves, bring progressive ideas to the south in reconstruction. The people describe in those terms would only doing the moral, ethical, just and what they thought was right. There was no ill will toward the south in these people.

Redeemers

Redeemers movement were the embittered whites who in time pushed the others out and gave us the south we know from 1880 to 1960's. They gave birth to the segregated and apartheid south.

Look at the words Radical, Scalawags, and carpetbaggers are all derogatory terms describing people who only wanted, what was best for the south both white and black.

Look Redeemers a positive word used to describe the embittered southern whites. Who ended a progressive south and gave us segregation and apartheid

Why did the northern papers allow southern papers to give these ugly names to people looking for a just southern society back in the 1870's.

Why did the early historians fall for obvious character assassinations of a progressive movement.

The south(Pro-southern Historians) by every measure wrote the history of the of Civil War and reconstruction.

[5fish]

You know William42 I tried to get a heated discussion under this topic and it looks like I have failed terribly. I was trying to move everyone out of the Secession topic down here but it just didn't work. The "lost cause" guys just would not bite.

[gary]

Dang! I thought I'd get it just for having a pulse and breathing. Oh well, there's always next year.

However, I'm happy that Chandra Manning got Honorable Mention for her book. Her book, What This Cruel War Was Over and Bruce Levine's book, Confederate Emancipation, were among the best I've read last year. I'm citing both in an article submitted to N&S Magazine.