Jason Silverman

Jason H. Silverman (Col ’74), the Ellison Capers Palmer Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at Winthrop University, has published his 12th book, When America Welcomed Immigrants: The Short and Tortured History of Abraham Lincoln’s Act to Encourage Immigration. Additionally, the Governor of South Carolina awarded him the Order of the Silver Crescent, “the state’s highest civilian award for significant contributions, leadership, volunteerism, and lifelong influence within a region or community.” Silverman retired in December 2017 after almost 40 years as a university professor. He lives with his family in Pawleys Island, South Carolina.  

Jason H. Silverman (Col ’74 L/M) was awarded the Order of the Silver Crescent, the state’s highest civilian award, by the governor of South Carolina for significant contributions, leadership, volunteerism and lifelong influence within a region or community. Silverman retired in December 2017 as the Ellison Capers Palmer Jr. Professor of History at Winthrop University after teaching there for more than 33 years. Prior to that he taught at Yale University. His recent book, Lincoln and the Immigrant, received the Immigrants’ Civil War Award.

Jason Silverman (Col ’74 CM) has been awarded the Immigrants’ Civil War Award by Long Island Wins, a nonprofit communications organization that focuses on immigration issues on Long Island and beyond. The award, given annually to an academic, author, public historian, scholar or artist who has contributed to the understanding of immigrants during the Civil War era, was awarded for Mr. Silverman’s scholarly work on Lincoln and the Immigrant and for the creation of the new Americans by Belief exhibit at President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, among other accomplishments. Mr. Silverman will be retiring next fall after teaching for almost 34 years as a chaired professor of history at Winthrop University in South Carolina and for four years at Yale University.