Name: 2026 Lincoln Prize Lecture
Start: 2026-10-15
End: 2026-10-15

Charred-Swift Creek

Fatburger located at 13427 Hull St Road, Midlothian, VA is a casual eatery offering fresh, authentic, tasty hamburgers, fries, and shakes. Every meal is cooked-to-order, using the freshest ingredients and traditional cooking methods. We’re best known for our fresh-never-frozen, lean-beef, chicken, turkey and veggie burgers & sandwiches, our hand-scooped, real ice cream milkshakes, homemade-from-scratch onion rings and build-your-own-burger experience.

Fatburger & Buffalo's Express

Oh la la! Our French Patisserie is all about the fancy stuff. We're talking top-notch ingredients, trained chefs, and mouthwatering treats like macarons, pastries, viennoiserie, and breads. It's like a little slice of Paris right in your mouth.

Sophia Marie Patisserie

Our vision is to produce the highest quality chocolate for our customers and utilize our business to bring freedom to those affected by human trafficking.

Taylor Made Chocolate

Our kitchen offers your family a taste of old Sicily. Explore our fine menu of soups, salads, pastas and seafood, or simply enjoy one of our traditional pizza pies.

Palermo Trattoria

The Hanover Country Store is unique. Our dedicated staff and restaurant team specialize in serving fresh and delicious home cooked meals and desserts. You can browse our antiques, household goods, old fashioned candy, Boar's Head deli meats and cheeses, fresh cut meats and locally sourced produce! in addition, be sure to browse our gourmet selection of peanuts, pickles and preserves. Come check us out and let us gain your trust through exceptional service and delicious products. Come see us!

Hanover Country Store

Our customers tell us that just a single spoonful of Gelati Celesti is indescribably good. Rich, decadent, creamy goodness. Perhaps even teetering on transcendental. A moment of pure joy. What makes our ice cream so heavenly? We pride ourselves on offering an exceptional product with the very best flavor possible. Our ice cream tastes exactly how great ice cream should taste—pure, fresh and natural. Each batch of Gelati Celesti ice cream is made by hand with only the finest ingredients from around the world. Flavors are churned in small batches using special Italian equipment. The micro-batch process allows us to care for and consider each scoop of ice cream that we serve. The hand-crafted process may take longer, but we think it makes our ice cream that much better. And our proprietary process minimizes the air whipped into our product, making it uniquely flavorful, thick and creamy, and flat out special.

Gelati Celesti-Hull Street

This half-mile linear walkway/bikeway is a Hanover County greenway that is part of the historic Ashland-Richmond Trolley Line. It is cleared and maintained as a natural surface. The trail extends from 11644 Gwathmey Church Road at the southern end to the intersection of Maple Street and Ashcake Road. The former Trolley Line generally followed Maple Street at England Street south to the city of Richmond. Additional improvements to this regional trail are planned as part of the Ashland to Petersburg Trail.

Ashland Trolley Line

A casual upscale restaurant serving "American Cuisine".

Cooper's Tavern & Taproom

Guided road and mountain bike tours, full-service repair, rentals, sales, and camps for kids.

Virginia Bike Roots

We’re a community of runners, hikers, bikers and ballplayers. We’re an outdoor playground, designed by Mother Nature, with class III and IV rapids running right through our downtown. A 52-mile bike trail runs along the James. The Richmond Marathon and Ukrop’s 10k are huge celebrations, and the whole region comes out to cheer on our local teams. In fact, we’re so sports-minded that the Washington Redskins have their training camp right in the center of the city. Add to that awesome hotels, beautiful venues, attractions, art, craft beer, more than 900 restaurants and a convenient location, and you’ve got a top choice for your next sports event. Welcome to RVA!

From indoor to outdoor facilities, the Richmond region has the fields, pitches, diamonds, venues and the dedicated staff to ensure your event is a huge success. 



Sports Richmond, VA

The American Civil War Museum is pleased to announce the Annual Lincoln Prize Lecture will be held at the Tredegar site in Richmond, Virginia on October 15th, 2026.  
  
This event is in partnership with Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. Our partnership with Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is reflective of our continuing commitment to engage in national conversations about the Civil War by presenting the most respected authorities in the field of research and scholarship.  
  
The Gilder Lehrman annual Lincoln Prize award is given to the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or the American Civil War era. This year’s recipient is Dr. Richard Carwardine, Distinguished Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford, for his book "Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union."  
  
A two-time recipient of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, Dr. Carwardine is a Welsh-born historian of the United States. He spent over thirty years in the Department of History at Sheffield University before taking up the Rhodes Professorship of American History at Oxford in 2002. He was elected President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 2009 and navigated the College towards the 500th anniversary of its founding. He received his first Lincoln Prize in 2004 for his book "Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power."  
  
The ACWM Lincoln Prize Lecture includes a reception with Dr. Carwardine followed by the lecture and book signing in the Museum.

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