Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History have announced the finalists for the 2021 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Our special congratulations to Adrian Brettle (UVA PhD 2014), whose book Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post-Civil War World (University of Virginia Press) was selected as one of five finalists.
These finalists were recommended to the board from 81 book nominations and were reviewed by a three-person jury: Edward Ayers, Executive Director of New American History and Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities at the University of Richmond, where he is president emeritus; Caroline Janney, award-winning author and John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia, where she also directs the Nau Center for Civil War History; and Steven Mintz, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
The winner of the 2021 Lincoln Prize will be announced on Friday, February 12—the 212th anniversary of President Lincoln’s birthday. For more details, please see the prize's website: