{"id":1250,"date":"2014-04-30T13:14:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2014-09-26T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T18:07:11","slug":"lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2014\/04\/30\/lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinity Professor Recognized as Finalist for Prestigious Lincoln Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/files\/2014\/04\/ChrisHagerPhoto2smByDonPollard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1255\" alt=\"ChrisHagerPhoto2smByDonPollard\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/files\/2014\/04\/ChrisHagerPhoto2smByDonPollard.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/files\/2014\/04\/ChrisHagerPhoto2smByDonPollard.jpg 640w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/files\/2014\/04\/ChrisHagerPhoto2smByDonPollard-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/files\/2014\/04\/ChrisHagerPhoto2smByDonPollard-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris Hager, Associate Professor of English at Trinity College, stands alongside filmmaker Steven Spielberg and a bronze bust of President Abraham Lincoln.\u00a0 The occasion was the celebration of The 2014 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, on April 24, at the Union League Club\u00a0in New York City.\u00a0 The Prize is awarded by Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.\u00a0\u00a0 Hager\u00a0was one of six finalists for his book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674059863\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing <\/em><\/a>(Harvard University Press).\u00a0 The\u00a0book was recognized as &#8220;an original and compelling study, that asserts that more slaves were literate than is commonly thought, and that their fugitive letters, diaries, petitions and other writings provide valuable insights.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Spielberg received a Special Achievement Award for\u00a0his movie &#8220;Lincoln,&#8221; released in 2012, which won two Academy Awards, was nominated for twelve, and grossed over $275 million worldwide.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettysburg.edu\/lincolnprize\/index.dot\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for more on the event.\u00a0\u00a0(<em>Photo by Don Pollard<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hager, Associate Professor of English at Trinity College, stands alongside filmmaker Steven Spielberg and a bronze bust of President Abraham Lincoln.\u00a0 The occasion was the celebration of The 2014 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, on April 24, at the Union League Club\u00a0in New York City.\u00a0 The Prize is awarded by Gettysburg College and the Gilder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}