Lewis E. Lehrman was presented the National Humanities Medal at the White House for his work in American history. Lehrman has written for the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Finest Hour, National Review, New York Sun, Harper’s, The Churchill Project at Hillsdale College, and The Chartwell Bulletin.
Lehrman authored Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point (a history of Mr. Lincoln’s anti-slavery campaign from 1854 to 1865); Lincoln “by littles” (a book of essays about President Lincoln); and, Money, Gold, and History (essays analyzing the modern history of money and its role in civilization), among other books.
Lewis E. Lehrman and Richard Gilder established the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University.
Together Lehrman and Gilder developed the unique 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 (and cataloged definitively at https://www.gilderlehrman.org/collections.)
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has developed a highly acclaimed national program for teaching American history in high schools and colleges throughout America (www.gilderlehrman.org).
Lehrman received a B.A. from Yale and an M.A. in history from Harvard. He was a Carnegie Teaching Fellow in History at Yale and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in History at Harvard. He has been awarded Honorary Degrees from Babson College, Gettysburg College, Lincoln College, Marymount University, and Thomas Aquinas College.
