How many of these Lincoln Prize winners have YOU read?

The winners of the 2013 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize were announced recently, and this year’s winner was “Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865” by James Oakes.

The Lincoln Prize is awarded by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The award has been given annually since 1991 for “the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War solider or a subject relating to their era.”

Nominees for this year’s prize included 104 books. Other finalists for this year’s award included “More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889” by Stephen Kantrowitz and “Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South” by Yael A. Sternhell.”

The complete winners of the Lincoln Awards are as follows:

1991 – “The Civil War” by Ken Burns

1992 – “Frederick Douglass” by William S. McFeely

1993 – “The Peculiar Institution” by Kenneth Stampp

1994 – “Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War” by Ira Berlin, et al.

1995 – “The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln” by Phillip Shaw Paludan

1996 – “Lincoln” by David Herbert Donald

1997 – “Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s and The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics” by Don Fehrenbacher

1998 – “For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War” by James M. McPherson

1999 – “Honor’s Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln” by Douglas L. Wilson

2000 – “Runaway Slaves: Rebels in the Plantation” by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger

2000 – “Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President” by Allen C. Guelzo

2001 – “A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865” by Russell F. Weigley

2002 – “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory” by David W. Blight

2003 – “Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!” by George C. Rable

2004 – “Lincoln” by Richard Carwardine

2005 – “Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation” by Allen C. Guelzo

2006 – “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin

2007 – “Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Worlds” by Douglas L. Wilson

2008 – “The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes

2008 – “Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through his Private Letters” by Elizabeth Brown Pryor

2009 – “Tried by War” Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

2009 – “Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy and the Civil War” by Craig Symonds

2010 – “Abraham Lincoln: A Life” by Michael Burlingame

2011 – “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” by Eric Foner

2012 – “Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union” by William C. Harris

2012 – “Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky” by Elizabeth D. Leonard

2013 – “Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865” by James Oakes

In the end, how many of these Lincoln Prize winners have you had a chance to read? Which did you like or dislike? Which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.