Jonathan W. White Wins Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize

Jonathan W. White earns Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced today that Jonathan W. White (PhD 2008, Advisor Herman Belz), author of A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House (Rowman & Littlefield), is a joint recipient of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Jonathan is Professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA, where he has taught since 2009. He is the author or editor of thirteen books, including Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln (2014), which was a finalist for the 2015 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, a “best book” in the Civil War Monitor, and the winner of the Abraham Lincoln Institute’s 2015 book prize. He has published more than one hundred articles, essays, and reviews. Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., called A House Built by Slaves “an attempt to size Lincoln up through the eyes of Black Americans who visited the ‘people’s house’ that their people had built and in whose names they were determined to win the fight for freedom and citizenship.” Jonathan will be recognized during an award ceremony at the Harvard Club in New York City on April 11, 2023. See the press release HERE.