Ronald C. White, Jr.
Senior Fellow
Ronald C. White, Jr. is the author of American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant and A. Lincoln: A Biography (2009), a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. The book was honored as a best book of 2009 by the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, History Book Club, and Barnes & Noble. His Lincoln biography won the coveted Christopher Award in 2009 which salutes books “that affirm the highest values of the human spirit.”
White is also the author of Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (2002), honored as a New York Times Notable Book of 2002, and a Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, and The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words (2005), a Los Angeles Times bestseller, a selection of the History Book Club and the Book-of-the-Month Club.
He has lectured at the White House and been interviewed on the PBS News Hour. Dr. White is a graduate of UCLA, Princeton Theological Seminary, with a Ph.D. in Religion and History from Princeton University. He has studied at Lincoln Theological College in England. He has been honored with a D. H. L. [Doctor of Humane Letters] from Whitworth University. He has taught at UCLA, Princeton Theological Seminary, Whitworth University, Colorado College, Rider University, and San Francisco Theological Seminary. He is a Fellow at the Huntington Library, Visiting Professor of History at UCLA, and a Senior Fellow of The Trinity Forum since May 2013. He lives with his wife, Cynthia, in La Cañada, California.
Speaker’s Bureau
May 7th, 2021 | “Lincoln in Private: Leadership Behind Closed Doors” an Online Conversation with Ron White
May 8th, 2020 | “Leadership in Tumultuous Times” an Online Conversation with Ron White
October 4th, 2016 | “The Story of Ulysses S. Grant” an Evening Conversation in Washington, DC with Ron White
April 2nd, 2013 | “Lincoln’s Sermon on the Mount: The Second Inaugural Address” an Evening Conversation in Nashville, TN with Ron White
Related Trinity Forum Readings
Abraham Lincoln: The Spiritual Growth of a Public Man by Elton Trueblood, featuring an original introduction by Ron White
Publications and Scholarly Work
- A. Lincoln (2010)
- American Ulysses (2017)
- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (2021)
- Lincoln in Private (2021)
- Lincoln’s Greatest Speech (2006)
- The Eloquent President (2006)
Recent Columns