Historian/Professor
Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the
Civil War Era at Gettysburg College, where he also directs
the Civil War Era Studies program. He holds a Master of
Arts and Ph.D. in History from the University of
Pennsylvania and an honorary doctorate in history from
Lincoln College. Guelzo has been a Fellow of the
American Council of Learned Societies, a visiting Research
Fellow at the Philadelphia Center for Early American
Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, a Fellow of
the Charles Warren Center for American Studies at Harvard
University, and a James Madison Fellow in the Department
of Politics at Princeton University.
Guelzo is the author of Edwards on the Will: A Century
of American Philosophical Debate (1989),
For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony
of the Reformed Episcopalians, 1873-1930 (1994), and
The Crisis of the American Republic: A History of
the Civil War and Reconstruction (St. Martin's, 1995).
He is best known for his work on Abraham Lincoln:
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Wm. B. Eerdmans,
1999), which won the Lincoln Prize in 2000, and
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery
in America (2004), which also won the Lincoln Prize
in 2005 (making him the first two-time winner in the Lincoln
Prize's history). In 1998, Guelzo edited a new edition of
Josiah G. Holland's Life of Abraham Lincoln for the
University of Nebraska Press. In 1999, he
co-edited (with Sang H. Lee) a volume of essays, Edwards
In Our Time: Jonathan Edwards and the Shaping of
American Religion, arising from a conference in
Philadelphia, which he helped organize in conjunction
with the Yale University Press edition of
The Works of Jonathan Edwards.
He has appeared on BookNotes with Brian Lamb on C-SPAN,
with Scott Simon on Weekend Edition - Saturday and
with Leanne Hanson on National Public Radio's Weekend
Edition - Sunday. Guelzo has provided editorial
commentary on Lincoln-related topics for The Washington
Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal
and First Things.
He has been a member of the governing boards of The
Civil War Library and Museum (1999-2000), The Abraham
Lincoln Association (2000- ), The Lincoln Institute
(1998- ),The Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College
(2000-2004 ), and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
Commission. He is currently working on a book about
the Lincoln-Douglas Debates for Simon and Schuster.
In 2005, Guelzo was nominated by
President George W. Bush to the
National Council on the Humanities.
Most recently he was awarded the
2006 National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
Medal of Honor, the highest and most
prestigious honor given at a
national level.
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