Jonathan W. White

Jonathan W. White is professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University. He is the author or editor of 17 books that cover a variety of topics including civil liberties during the Civil War, the USS Monitor and the Battle of Hampton Roads, the presidential election of 1864, and what Abraham Lincoln and soldiers dreamt about. He serves as vice chair of The Lincoln Forum, and on the Ford’s Theatre Advisory Council, and in 2019 he won the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award—the highest honor bestowed upon college faculty by the Commonwealth of Virginia. His recent book, A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House, was co-winner the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize (with Jon Meacham). His most recent books are Final Resting Places: Reflects on the Meaning of Civil War Graves (edited with Brian Matthew Jordan), Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade, and My Day with Abe Lincoln.