Douglas L. Wilson

Douglas L. Wilson (born November 10, 1935) is a professor and co-director of Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College.

Wilson is the George A. Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of English at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He co-directs the Lincoln Studies Center along with his colleague Rodney O. Davis.

Wilson is also a two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize for Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words, published in November 2006, as well as Honor's Voice in 1999.

In the middle of his academic career, Wilson spent four years serving as the Founding Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello), in Charlottesville, Virginia, before returning to Knox College.

Order of Lincoln, Lincoln Academy, inducted Wilson a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State’s highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2009 as a Bicentennial Laureate, 2009. Honorary Degree, D. H. L., Doane College, 2009. Book Prize for Lincoln’s Sword, Abraham Lincoln Institute, 2007. Lincoln Prize for Lincoln’s Sword, Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, 2007. Honorary Degree, Litt. D., Knox College, 2007. Residency, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center at Bellagio, 2004. Lincoln Diploma of Honor, Lincoln Memorial University, 2000. Lincoln Prize for Honor's Voice, Gettysburg College, 1999. Barondess/Lincoln Award, Civil War Roundtable of New York, 1999. Book Prize for Honor's Voice, Abraham Lincoln Institute, 1999. Research Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1999. Book Prize for Herndon's Informants, Abraham Lincoln Institute, 1998. Award of Achievement, Lincoln Group of New York, 1998. Elected to membership, American Antiquarian Society, 1995. Fellowship, Huntington Library, 1981, 1991, 1992. Alumni Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Doane College, 1991. Outstanding Faculty Award, Knox College, 1991. Lester J. Cappon Research Associate, Newberry Library, 1985-86. Research grants, American Council of Learned Societies, 1981, 1985. Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1982-83. Research grant, American Philosophical Society, 1980.

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