William C. Harris (historian)

William C. Harris is Professor Emeritus of History at North Carolina State University. In 2012, he was co-winner of the 2012 Lincoln Prize (shared with Elizabeth D. Leonard).
Education.
He began graduate school in 1958 at the University of Alabama.
Career.
Harris served in the U.S. Air Force before graduate school.
He is also on the Advisory Council of Ford's Theatre and serves on the Board of Advisors for Knox College's Lincoln Studies Center.
Awards.
Harris's "With charity for all: Lincoln and the restoration of the Union" came in second place for the Lincoln Prize in 1998. He then received the Lincoln Diploma of Honor from the Lincoln Memorial University in 2003.
In 2008, Harris's writing was also awarded Henry Adams Prize offered by the Society for History in the Federal Government with his book "Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency" 
Most notably, Harris was awarded the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize in 2012.