Congratulations to Jon Grinspan (PhD 2013) and Robert Colby (CLAS 2009), whose books are finalists for the 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize! Grinspan's book, Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War, was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. Colby's book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South, was published by Oxford University Press.