Two Time Lincoln Prize Recipient James Oakes in Cleveland Plain Dealer

April 29, 2014

Two Time Lincoln Prize Recipient James Oakes in Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Cleveland Plain Dealer, 4.24.14

Oakes is a history professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He won his second $50,000 Lincoln Prize for this study of Abraham Lincoln's emancipation policies, subtitled The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865.