Richard Carwardine was formerly Rhodes Professor of American History and President of Corpus Christi College at Oxford University, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute. Elected by the Lincoln Academy of Illinois to the Order of Lincoln, he is the author of Transatlantic Revivalism (1978), Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America (1993), and Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power (2005), which won the Lincoln Prize. He edited, with Jay Sexton, The Global Lincoln (2011). Lincoln’s Sense of Humor (2017) won the annual book prize of the Abraham Lincoln Institute.
