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Lewis Lehrman talked about his book, Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft, on the parallel lives of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Fran…

Lin-Manuel Miranda was presented with a Special Achievement Award from the board of the George Washington Book Prize. Mr. Miranda is the playwright, lyricist, composer, and star of the Broad…

The 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, worth $50,000, was awarded on March 23, 2015, in New York City. Finalists for the prize read selections from their books prior to the a…

Lewis Lehrman talked about President Abraham Lincoln’s education and character. He described the 16th president as a man with less than a year of formal schooling, who nonetheless schooled h…

Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman were interviewed about their collection of historical documents from early U.S. history through modern times. They talked about their collaboration in histor…

The Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College presented the annual Lincoln Prize awards. The Lincoln Prize is awarded for the finest scholarly work in English on President Abraham…

Officials of the Gilder Lehrman Institute presented the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book of the year on the history of slavery. This year’s winner, David Blight, is the author…

Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, the co-founders of the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, talked about their organization, which was designed to foster the appreciation and lov…

David Eltis received the annual Frederick Douglass award for writing on the history of slavery. He received the prize for his book The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas, published by C…