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History professor's book nominated for Lincoln Prize

Amy Gage
January 27, 2003

St. Olaf College Professor of History Michael W. Fitzgerald was nominated for the prestigious 2003 Lincoln Prize, sponsored by Gettysburg College, for his recently published book, Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860-1890 (2002, Louisiana State University Press). One of only three scholars nominated for the prize (which honors work related to Lincoln and the Civil War), Fitzgerald will attend an awards banquet April 15 at the college, in Gettysburg, Penn., honoring him and the other nominees: George C. Rable, author of Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!, and John Stauffer, author of The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. Read an interview with Fitzgerald.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.