
He has also written about the Civil War more broadly in works such as his 2014 Lincoln Prize-winning Gettysburg: The Last Invasion. Principally known as a scholar of Abraham Lincoln, Guelzo’s books about the 16th president include Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (winner of the 2000 Lincoln Prize), Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (winner of the 2005 Lincoln Prize), Abraham Lincoln As a Man of Ideas (2008), and Redeeming the Great Emancipator (2016).

Kea Professor of American History and Dean of the Templeton Honors College. He came to Gettysburg from Eastern University, where he served as Grace F. Guelzo, a three-time winner of the Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize and winner of the 2018 Bradley Prize, has taught at Gettysburg since 2004.


Allen Guelzo, Henry Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, will retire from Gettysburg College at the end of August and assume a position as Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities and Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. Allen Guelzo on the Gettysburg battlefield (Photo courtesy of Gettysburg College)ĭr.
