Why Lincoln: Preserving an American Legacy - Paperback

by Jonathan White (Author)

Author Biography

Jonathan W. White is the Patrick C. Oxford Professor in the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or editor of 23 books, including Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln (2025), A Great and Good Man: Rare, First-hand Accounts and Observations of Abraham Lincoln (2024), and A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House (2022), which won the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. He serves as Vice Chair of The Lincoln Forum, a past president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, and a Director of the Abraham Lincoln Association.