Richard Carwardine

Richard Carwardine in July 2010 during the Gilder-Lehrman "Age of Lincoln" seminar at St. Catherine's College

Richard Carwardine (born 12 January 1947) FBA FRHistS FLSW is President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and was formerly Rhodes Professor of American History at St Catherine's College, Oxford. Before this he was Professor of American History at the University of Sheffield. He specialises in the early years of the American Republic and the American Civil War. His best known work is the 2004 book Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power, a political biography which particularly focuses on how Abraham Lincoln mobilised evangelical Protestants to gain support for the Union and emancipation; this book won the Lincoln Prize. Carwardine is a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers.

External links

• Interview at the Pritzker Military Library
• Debrett's People of Today