JAMES OAKES AND ELIZABETH
BROWN PRYOR

WIN 2008 LINCOLN PRIZE

           

(Gettysburg, PA, February 12, 2008)-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, it was announced today.  The winners of this year's prize are Professor 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 diplomat/historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor for Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters (Viking).   To read the press release in its entirety click here.