Dr. Jason H Silverman

Jason H. Silverman is the Ellison Capers Palmer Jr Professor of History Emeritus at Winthrop University where he taught for over thirty-three years. Prior to that he taught at Yale University for four years. Author or editor of thirteen previous books, several of which were nominated for national book awards, his recent works are Abraham Lincoln The Athlete: A Proud Competitor but a Humble Sportsman (2022), When America Welcomed Immigrants: The Short and Tortured History of Abraham Lincoln's...See more

Jason H. Silverman is the Ellison Capers Palmer Jr Professor of History Emeritus at Winthrop University where he taught for over thirty-three years. Prior to that he taught at Yale University for four years. Author or editor of thirteen previous books, several of which were nominated for national book awards, his recent works are Abraham Lincoln The Athlete: A Proud Competitor but a Humble Sportsman (2022), When America Welcomed Immigrants: The Short and Tortured History of Abraham Lincoln's Act to Encourage Immigration (2020), and Lincoln and the Immigrant (2015, 2020), a volume in the Concise Lincoln Library series published by Southern Illinois University Press. The latter was awarded The Immigrants' Civil War Award by Hofstra University's Long Island Wins, a nonprofit communications organization that focuses on immigration issues on Long Island and beyond. Of the 16,500, and counting, volumes published on Abraham Lincoln, Silverman's is still the first, and only, full-length study of its kind. This volume inspired American by Belief, a museum exhibit at President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldier's Home in Washington, DC. Dr. Silverman received his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia and his graduate degrees at Colorado State University and the University of Kentucky. Among his teaching awards, he has received Winthrop's Outstanding Junior Professor Award, been named the University's Distinguished Professor, received the Pi Kappa Phi Excellence in Teaching Award three times and, in 1990, became the first person in Winthrop's history to be named South Carolina Professor of the Year. In 2011, Dr. Silverman was named the inaugural Ellison Capers Palmer, Jr. Professor of History at Winthrop.In 2018, he was awarded The Order of the Silver Crescent, the state of South Carolina's highest civilian award for "significant contributions, leadership, volunteerism, and lifelong influence within a region or community. The Order of the Silver Crescent is a once in a lifetime achievement."Dr. Silverman is Chairman of the Scholarly Advisory Group for President Lincoln's Cottage at the National Soldier's Home in Washington, D.C., Co-Editor of Abraham Lincoln Abroad and on the editorial boards of The Lincolnator, and the Lincoln Herald, where, in January 2018, he became the Book Review Editor and quarterly columnist. For eight years, Dr. Silverman also served two elected terms on the Rock Hill School Board 2002-2010). See less