Lewis Lehrman

In 1990, Lewis E. Lehrman co-founded the Lincoln & Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College which annually awards the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for the best work on the Lincoln era. There, he has taught the Lincoln Senior Seminar. Lewis Lehrman and Richard Gilder established the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University which awards the Frederick Douglass Prize. With Washington College and George Washington's Mount Vernon, they created the George Washington Book Prize. Together, they built the Gilder Lehrman Collection of original historical manuscripts and documents to teach American history from primary sources. The collection is on deposit for public access at the New-York Historical Society. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has developed its teaching program for high schools and colleges throughout America and England. In November 2010, Messrs. Gilder and Lehrman received the William E. Simon Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Social Entrepreneurship for their work promoting the study of American history through the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Lewis E. Lehrman was presented the National Humanities Medal at the White House in 2005 for his work in American history. He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. He is founder and chairman of The Lehrman Institute, a public policy research and grant making foundation established in 1972. The Lehrman Institute created The Lincoln Institute, which has promoted the study of America's 16th president - particularly through five topical web sites linked to www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org. Mr. Lehrman is the author of Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point (Stackpole Books, 2008), The True Gold Standard (TLI, 2011, 2013), Money, Gold, and History (TLI, 2013), and Lincoln "by littles" (TLI, 2013). He is editor of the second edition of Money and the Coming World Order (TLI, 2012). Lewis E. Lehrman was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Louise, have five adult children and eleven grandchildren. He has been awarded Honorary Degrees from Babson College (MA), Gettysburg College (PA), Lincoln College (IL), Marymount University (VA) and Thomas Aquinas College (CA).