Congratulations to AHA member Edda L. Fields-Black (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), who was announced as the recipient of the 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for her book, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War (Oxford Univ. Press). The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize is awarded annually to “a work that enhances the general public’s understanding of Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or the American Civil War era.”
