HAROLD HOLZER is one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. A prolific writer and lecturer, and frequent guest on television, Holzer served for nine years as co-chairman of the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC), appointed by President Clinton in 2000. President Bush, in turn, awarded Holzer the National Humanities Medal in 2008. In 2010, Holzer became chairman of the ALBC successor organization, The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. bio continues here...


Harold greets Hon. William J. Clinton at the opening gala for Lincoln and New York, New York Historical Society, October 7, 2009.

Upcoming Personal Appearances
 Sept 23–24 • “The Image of the Emancipation Proclamation in Art and Memory” and panelist for the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, Norfolk, VA
Sept 28 2010 • Empire State Archives and History Award w/ Richard Dreyfuss, Albany, NY
October 5–7 • Huggins Lecture Series at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
November 4 • “Election of 1860– for National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg, PA
November 5–6 • Interviewing James Horton as part of “Quest for Freedom—Live and Learn” series; Harrisburg, PA
November 15–19 • Lincoln Forum, Gettysburg, PA
December 2 • “Election of 1860” w/ Jim McPherson and Eric Foner, New York Society for Ethical Culture, New York, NY (NYHS event)

 

 
 
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The Lincoln Assassination: Crime and Punishment, Myth and Memory—A Lincoln Forum Book
Harold Holzer and Frank J. Williams, editors

In the fourth volume from scholarly collective the Lincoln Forum (following Lincoln Revisited), 10 contributors turn their attention to the 16th president’s assassination. Editors Holzer and Williams collaborate on an interesting (and well-illustrated) look at popular engravings and prints portraying Lincoln’s final hours, some of which put a crowd of 50 at Lincoln’s deathbed, in a room large enough for no more than a half-dozen.

Lincoln and New York
Harold Holzer, editor
The 2009 New-York Historical Society exhibition, which this companion book accompanies, explores for the first time how America’s flourishing media and financial capital—also a center of pro-slavery sentiment and anti-Lincoln Democratic politics’contributed to and influenced Lincoln’s political rise, his prosecution of the Civil War, his decisions on emancipation and African-American enlistment, and ultimately Lincoln’s place in history. This volume and the exhibition cap the national observances of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday.

Lincoln President-Elect:
Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860–1861
Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer, one of the most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln’s election and Inauguration when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency—there would be no compromise on slavery or secession of the slaveholding states even at the cost of an inevitable Civil War. Lincoln President-Elect is the first book to concentrate on his public stance during these months and the momentous consequences when Abraham Lincoln first demonstrated his determination and leadership. He rejected compromises urged on him that might have preserved the Union for a little while longer but enshrined slavery for generations.

The Lincoln Anthology:
85 Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 Until Now
Harold Holzer

Abraham Lincoln has achieved an unrivaled preeminence in American history, culture, and myth. Here, for the bicentennial of his birth, Lincoln and his enduring legacy are the focus of nearly 100 major authors and important historical figures from his time to the present. Edited by celebrated Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer, this collection gathers fascinating writing from a variety of genres to illuminate the Lincoln we know and revere. The Lincoln Anthology includes illustrations and a detailed chronology of Lincoln’s life.