Jon White is emerging as one of the nation’s foremost scholars on the life of Abraham Lincoln. He and Erin Carlson Mast share fascinating stories about Lincoln and the Civil War. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War: The Trials of John Merryman (2011), and Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln (2014), which was a finalist for both the Lincoln Prize and Jefferson Davis Prize, a “best book” in Civil War Monitor, and the winner of the Abraham Lincoln Institute’s 2015 book prize.