named in honor of the 16th president to the gilder lehrman lincoln prize started in 1990 and has beenrded annually for words spoken in english on abraham lincoln for the american civil war guilt. for the inspired leadership of louis lehrman and richard gilder the lincoln prize committee has considered more than 3200 books and aborted more than $1.5 million in prizes over the last three decades. the award has honored scholars such as eric bowman, robert fields, the doors current goodman jim mcpherson and filmmaker steven spielberg and ken burns honored for the nyquil prize for his documentary, the civil war. as well as many other. the gilder lehrman lincoln prize has set the standard for scholarly awards and shines a bright light on the legacy of lincoln and his accomplishments as well as the era of the civil war. although america may change both the memory and the words of abraham lincoln remain prescient. with malice toward none, with charity for all let us strive to finish the work to bind up the nation's wounds and always achieve and share them peace amongst ourselves. the gilder l

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we are honored that the gilder lehrman institute of american history price continues to play an importantlate elizabeth varon and david reynolds for the superbwl publication and also to gilder for what he did in his distinguished life and i wish to thank the vision and leadership and commitment to improving our understanding of the world through the study of our past. lastly, big thanks to all of you so much for joining us in the special event. and i look forward to connecting with you at the gettysburg college in the years ahead and take care now. >> thank you bob printed i'm a senior at the high school in new york city and a member of the student advisory council at the gilder lehrman history and i'm pleased that the been accepted into three colleges including communication university manhattan college and hoping to find soon which college to attend in the fall and i'm honored to introduce our next guest. martha, professor is a professor history at new york university and winner of the 2016 gilder urprize and professor will be presenting a finalist in the 2020 lincoln prize and take it

universityda were proud because sponsored with his webinar with "lincolnomics" in our partners, gilder lehrman institute of american history and this event is part of our centennial series celebrating 100 years of purpose driven education. this particular, since we are currently offering a course in financial history, and in conjunction with the museum of american finance and during the presentation, please enter your questions byth typing them in te q&a section near the bottom of your zoom screen and we will be addressing as many questions as possible after the presentation and lastly, as a participant in today's webinar, you will be entered into a raffle to win a free e-book of "lincolnomics" and winners willom be notified t the end of the week. now i would like to turn it over to david president of this and is our speaker. >> thank you. and this is the third of time that i've had the pleasure to introduce john buried in the first time i introduced him he had written ten books which i thought was pretty impressive and while the second time he was up toas 16 and now we are up to9 books it is