Winners of the Lincoln Prize - Ken Burns, John Hope Franklin, Doris Kearns Goodwin, James M. McPherson, Allen C. Guelzo, Craig Symonds (Paperback)

Chapters: Ken Burns, John Hope Franklin, Doris Kearns Goodwin, James M. Mcpherson, Allen C. Guelzo, Craig Symonds, Kenneth M. Stampp, David Herbert Donald, Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Lincoln Prize, Russell Weigley, Phillip S. Paludan, William S. Mcfeely, Barbara J. Fields, James Oakes, George C. Rable, Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Richard Carwardine, Douglas L. Wilson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 81. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Hope Franklin (2 January 1915 25 March 2009) was a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. The John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago, Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continually updated. More than three million copies have been sold. In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Franklin was born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma and named after John Hope. He graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He graduated from Fisk University in 1935 and gained a doctorate in history in 1941 from Harvard University. Franklin met and courted Aurelia Whittington at Fisk. They married on June 11, 1940 at her parents' home in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Their only child, John Whittington Franklin, was born August 24, 1952. Aurelia was a librarian. Their marriage lasted 59 years, until January 27, 1999, when she succumbed to a long illness. "My challenge," Franklin said, "was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly." In his autobiography...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=295522