IN THE NEWS
From The Washington Post (May 28, 2022)
The Lincoln Memorial rose from the mud of the Potomac 100 years ago
The New York State Library has acquired the complete works of award-winning Abraham Lincoln scholar and historian Harold Holzer, Commissioner Betty A. Rosa announced today. The acquisition covers Mr. Holzer's 49-year career as a writer, lecturer, and historian specializing in President Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. [read more]
From Historical Publications LLC (February 22, 2022)
New York State Library Acquires the Research Papers of Award-Winning Lincoln Scholar and Historian Harold Holzer
The New York State Library has acquired the complete works of award-winning Abraham Lincoln scholar and historian Harold Holzer, Commissioner Betty A. Rosa announced today. The acquisition covers Mr. Holzer's 49-year career as a writer, lecturer, and historian specializing in President Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. [read more]
From The New York Daily News (September 5, 2020)
His full-court press: Why Trump's attack on the media is more corrosive than other presidents'
Trump's most rabid media enablers—online and on-air—began hinting that the pandemic itself might be a "media hoax" invented to drive the president from office. The idea that Trump came up with the term "fake news" is itself fake news. He coopted and distorted the meaning of the term after it was initially devised to describe intentionally fake news, downright, purposeful fabrications that pollute the internet. To Trump, it came to apply to just about any coverage he disagreed with. [read more]
From The New York Times (August 25, 2020)
The Never-Ending War Between the White House and the Press
[A] panoramic survey of the most contentious president-on-press brawls from the past two and a quarter centuries, providing both the scholar and the general reader with valuable perspective on the current bout between Trump and reporters. [read more]
From The Washington Post (August 21, 2020)
Trump carries on a presidential tradition: Battling the press
[A] lively, deeply researched history of the roller-coaster relationships between presidents and journalists... Holzer recounts all this and much more in considerable colorful detail. [read more]
From The Minneapolis Star Tribune (August 21, 2020)
Review: 'The Presidents vs. the Press,' by Harold Holzer
[A]n immensely informative account of the perennial struggle between presidents and the Fourth Estate... Judicious and nonpartisan, Holzer covers a lot of ground. [read more]
From CNN (August 11, 2020)
Are you ready for Trump's Gettysburg Address?
Before we get too exercised over the bombshell news that President Donald Trump may accept re-nomination at either the White House or the Gettysburg battlefield—profaning sacred space at either place—we might pause to remember how Abraham Lincoln used these venues during the Civil War. Ironically, Lincoln did no overt campaigning of any kind elsewhere in 1864, when he ran for a second term. The reigning political culture frowned on presidential candidates who coveted the job too blatantly. [read more]
From The Smithsonian Magazine (July 7, 2020)
How Northern Publishers Cashed In On Fundraising For Confederate Monuments
At the age of 78, a frail Jefferson Davis journeyed back to Montgomery, Alabama, where he had first been sworn in as president of the Confederacy a quarter-century earlier. There, greeted by an "ovation... said never to have been equaled or eclipsed in that city," the once-unpopular Davis helped lay the cornerstone for a monument to the Confederate dead. Despite failing health, he then embarked on a final speaking tour in the spring of 1886 to Atlanta and on to Savannah—ironically retracing General Sherman's march through Georgia, which had crushed and humiliated the South and brought the Civil War closer to an end. [read more]
From The New York Daily News (June 19, 2020)
Time to rethink Confederate statues: A Lincoln scholar changes his mind
Three years ago, in August 2017, I appeared on the CNN morning show "New Day" to argue to Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota that—because some Confederate statues had artistic merit—they deserved to remain in place, with context added for modern viewers. I said something similar in an op-ed in these pages. [read more]
From The Miami Herald (May 7, 2020)
President Lincoln's valet 'tested positive,' too | Opinion
In 1863, the president gave the virus to the valet. William Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's 30-year-old African-American White House valet, had joined the president's retinue for its important train trip to Gettysburg on Nov. 18. No doubt, he attended Lincoln that night as the president labored over the final draft of the "few appropriate remarks" he was set to deliver at the new Soldier's National Cemetery the following day. On the Nov. 19, Johnson surely helped the president dress for the ceremony. [read more]
From The New York Daily News (January 31, 2020)
What I saw on the Senate floor—and what Lincoln might have thought of his party
On the way toward the Senate visitor gallery Thursday afternoon, we passed the marble bust of Abraham Lincoln sculpted more than a century and a half ago by the long-forgotten artist Sarah Fisher Ames. Ames got to study Lincoln from life in November 1863—just as he was drafting the "few appropriate remarks" he was scheduled to deliver a few days later at Gettysburg. The ones that pondered whether the nation could "long endure." [read more]
From The New York Times (December 29, 2015)
Revisiting the Fervor of the Women's Suffrage Movement
The placards read like Twitter posts from the past. In large type, printed in bold against a plain backdrop, they deliver messages from women's suffrage activists to politicians in the 1912 election: "The men of twelve States and Alaska have given women their ballot. Will you not be as fair as those men?" There are 22 posters in all, and they will soon be on view together for the first time as part of the exhibition "Women Take the Lead: From Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Eleanor Roosevelt, Suffrage to Human Rights," opening on Jan. 14 at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College on the Upper East Side. [read more]
From The New York Times (August 13, 2015)
Former Met Museum Official to Lead Roosevelt House
The question for Harold Holzer—former government official, former Metropolitan Museum of Art official—was: Aren't you about to follow in the footsteps of men like, oh, maybe, Ulysses S. Grant? That is, men who did something later in life, after they did the thing for which they became famous. Grant was a Union general in the Civil War, then president from 1869 to 1877. Mr. Holzer, who retired as senior vice president for public affairs of the Met last month, has been appointed to lead the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. [read more]
From Hunter College (August 13, 2015)
Harold Holzer Named Director of The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab today announced the appointment of Harold Holzer as the Jonathan F. Fanton Director of the College's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. Holzer, who until last month was the Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is one of the nation's foremost scholars on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. In his new role at Roosevelt House, which since its opening in 2010 has become a magnet for some of the world's top public policy and human rights leaders, Holzer will oversee the institute's public programming, student curricula and academic research. He also will work with President Raab and Hunter's provost to continue to refine the institute's role as a leading center of public discourse in New York City and around the world. Holzer also will serve on the Hunter faculty as a professor in the history department. [ read more]
From The New York Times (June 26, 2015)
Evening Hours by Bill Cunningham
The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated the retirement of Harold Holzer, the senior vice president for public affairs and recipient of the 2015 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, who had bee at the museum for more than 20 years. [read more]
From The New York Times (Feb 11, 2015)
Lincoln Prize Goes to Harold Holzer
Harold Holzer, a Lincoln scholar who recently announced his retirement as a public affairs executive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been awarded the 2015 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, to be announced Thursday. Mr. Holzer won for his book "Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion" (Simon & Schuster). He will receive $50,000 and a bronze replica of Augustus Saint-Gaudens's life-size bust "Lincoln the Man" in a ceremony April 23 in New York. The prize is awarded by Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. [read more]
From The Observer (January 21, 2015)
Harold Holzer to Retire from the Metropolitan
Harold Holzer wants his weekends back. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced last week that Mr. Holzer, senior vice president for public affairs and a well-liked, high-profile member of the Met's staff in various roles for more than 20 years, will retire this summer. In addition to his day job, Mr. Holzer is also a renowned expert on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era. In October, The New York Times Book Review called his most recent of more than three-dozen books, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion, "a monumental, richly detailed portrait of the world of 19th-century journalism and Lincoln's relation to it." [read more]
From The New York Times (January 13, 2015)
A Stalwart at The Metropolitan Museum to Step Down
For members of the press, Harold Holzer has been as much a staple of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as the Arms and Armor wing. He seemed to try to move on before—in 2005, when he was given additional responsibility for visitor services and the Multicultural Audience Development Initiative, and in 2013, when he assumed the new title of senior vice president for public affairs. And Mr. Holzer, who has worked at the Met for almost 23 years, seemed to have plenty of other things to do, given his work as a leading Lincoln scholar and his problematic shoulder (he's going on his fourth surgery). Mr. Holzer said he had aimed to scale back, without success. "I tried to do a four-day-a-week schedule but I wound up working six days a week from wherever I was," he said in an interview. "So the chance to do something on my own is irresistible." [read more]
From NPR’s "All Things Considered" (November 19, 2013)
Short Speech Still Resonates: The Gettysburg Address Turns 150
Tuesday marks the 150th Anniversary of the Gettysburg address. President Abraham Lincoln delivered these 278 words at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg. Melissa Block talks with Civil War historian Harold Holzer about the address... [listen here]
From The Journal News (November 13, 2013)
Chronicling Lincoln@Gettysburg
Rye historian Harold Holzer, the author of dozens of books on Abraham Lincoln, has an abiding interest in the words the president used. Lincoln the Executive, Lincoln the Lawyer, Lincoln the Teller of Tales. But Holzer has an abiding appreciation for Lincoln the wordsmith. Take, for example, the Gettysburg Address, delivered at a newly created National Cemetery 150 years ago next week. It is a speech that evolved in Lincoln’s mind, starting within days of the war-changing battle in July 1863... [read more]
From The New York Post (November 24, 2012)
Finally, an Honest Abe
Director Steven Spielberg, whom I introduced last week at Gettysburg at ceremonies marking the 149th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s greatest speech, said he was deeply humbled to be delivering an address on that history-making spot. Spielberg kept his remarks simple — like Lincoln before him. After seven years of work on his new film "Lincoln," Spielberg feels almost as if the 16th president is "one of my oldest and dearest friends," he said.... [read more]
From The Wall Street Journal (November 19, 2012)
Living History With Lincoln By the Books
What do you get when you combine a PR man and a Lincoln scholar? This isn’t a joke question. I was considering it a week ago Friday night when I traveled to Albany to see a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation in Lincoln’s handwriting. I also joined the audience at the New York State Museum as Harold Holzer, the author or editor of more than 40 books about Abraham Lincoln, gave a talk about the document that freed the slaves. Mr. Holzer also happens to be the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s senior vice president for external affairs.... [read more]
From The New York Times (July 28, 2012)
Never Enough Lincoln on the Shelves
After writing, co-authoring and editing 42 books on Abraham Lincoln, Harold Holzer is easing back a bit from his day job as senior vice president of external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art  in order to devote more time to Lincoln. A Lincoln painting from life looks over his shoulder at the museum, where he runs the communications shop and seems bemused when a visitor asks what could possibly be left to write about Lincoln... [read more]
From NPR (March 14, 2012)
'Emancipating Lincoln': A Pragmatic Proclamation
One hundred fifty years ago, in the summer of 1862, the Civil War was raging and President Abraham Lincoln was starting to scribble away at a document, an ultimatum to the rebellious states: Return to the Union, or your slaves will be freed. Emancipation was a “military necessity,” the president later confided to his Cabinet... [read more]
From The New York Times (February 11, 2012)
Mrs. Lincoln, I Presume? Well, as It Turns Out...
For 32 years, a portrait of a serene Mary Todd Lincoln hung in the governor's mansion in Springfield, Ill., signed by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, a celebrated painter who lived at the White House for six months in 1864. The story behind the picture was compelling: Mrs. Lincoln had Mr. Carpenter secretly paint her portrait as a surprise for the president, but he was assassinated before she had a chance to present it to him. Now it turns out that both the portrait and the touching tale accompanying it are false... [read more]
From The Washington Post (January 27, 2012)
The Lincoln-Douglas debates weren't as great as Gingrich thinks
For months, Newt Gingrich has floated the same challenge to President Obama that underdogs have hurled at their political rivals for more than a century: Let's debate. And not just once or twice, but many times, with no moderators to intervene or inhibit us. Just two candidates, head to head  Lincoln-Douglas style. As a Lincoln historian, I've studied the famous meetings between challenger Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Stephen A. Schwarzman Building A. Douglas... [read more]
From The New York Times (July 3, 2011)
Lincoln's Rhetorical Fireworks
When the Confederacy opened fire on Fort Sumter in April 1861, Abraham Lincoln responded within hours, ordering a naval blockade of Southern ports and calling for 75,000 volunteers to “maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union.†But in a 19th-century precursor to President Obama’s decision to act alone against Libya... [read more]
From The Washington Post (February 21, 2011)
Conversation on Five myths about Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer was online the morning of Monday, Feb. 21, to chat live about Abraham Lincoln and his latest Outlook piece, Five Myths about Abraham Lincoln... [read more]
From The Washington Post (February 17, 2011)
Five myths about Abraham Lincoln
No American hero, with the possible exception of George "I Cannot Tell a Lie" Washington, has been more encrusted with myth than Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln did boast virtues that required little embellishment. He rose from obscurity through hard work, self-education and honesty. He endured venomous criticism to save the Union and end slavery. He died shortly after his greatest triumph at the hands of an assassin. But tall-tale-tellers have never hesitated to rewrite Lincoln's biography. On Presidents' Day, it's well worth dispelling some perennial misconceptions about the man on the $5 bill... [read more]
From The New York Times (January 26, 2011)
A Blot on Lincoln Historians
These facts remain true: on April 14, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln sent a routine, one-sentence, handwritten order to Joseph Holt, the judge advocate general, pardoning a California soldier, Private Patrick Murphy, who had been sentenced to be shot for desertion... [read more]
From The New York Times (January 20, 2011)
The Critter Himself
When the bohemian sculptor with the unlikely name moved into Springfield, Ill., in the closing days of 1860, his intended subject, the town’s most famous resident, was getting ready to move out of the office he had occupied there for seven months. The approaching Illinois legislative session meant President-elect Abraham Lincoln’s space would be re-claimed by the governor. Arranging formal sittings would not be easy... [read more]
From The Washington Post (December 20, 2010)
A House Divided
If you dared suggesting to President-elect Abraham Lincoln that individual states owned the federal forts within their borders, you would have gotten the following answer from him around Christmas 1860 (in so many words): Bah, humbug! And Lincoln, who otherwise kept his silence on policy issues... [read more]
From The New York Times (November 23, 2010)
The Sound of Lincoln’s Silence
Less than a month after Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency, the nation’s reigning bible of technology, Scientific American, shone a startling new light on the incoming chief executive. Lincoln, it revealed, was an inventor. Eleven years earlier... [read more]
From The New York Times (May 11, 2009)
50 Years In, Lincoln Center’s Name Is Still a Mystery
And so, this Monday morning, let us celebrate the Great Emancipator himself, Abraham Lincoln, who gave his name to Lincoln Center, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking with an artistic and political extravaganza in the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall starting at 10:30 a.m. Not. Or, well, perhaps... [read more]
From The New York Times (January 19, 2009)
Ask About Lincoln in New York
Harold Holzer, the author of several books on Abraham Lincoln and the historian for the upcoming New-York Historical Society exhibition, "Lincoln and New York," answered selected readers? questions about Abraham Lincoln?s experiences in New York, where he gave the Cooper Union speech that advanced his 1860 presidential campaign, stopped on his way to his 1861 inauguration, and lay in state, at City Hall, following his assassination in 1865... [read more]
From The Huffington Post (January 18, 2009)
7 Days in America: Lesson from Lincoln's Transition & Inaugural
Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer shares the parallels between one lanky Illinois legislator / president-elect and another. Think about it: without Lincoln, no emancipation proclamation, no Obama... and no United States of America... [read more]
From CNN (January 17, 2009)
Commentary: The real ties between Lincoln and Obama
They are big shoes to fill by any standard, political or historical. Pointing to his oversize, specially made boots, Abraham Lincoln once confided that he may have been slow to put his foot down, but once he did, he never went back.... [read more]
From Forbes Magazine (January 15, 2009)
What Barack Obama Can (And Can't) Learn From Abraham Lincoln
How did Lincoln craft two of the greatest inaugural addresses of all time, and how can Obama, already a remarkable orator, rise to that level? What can Obama learn about facing a national economic crisis from the president who confronted the crisis of war within our borders? Why is the "team of rivals" comparison between Obama and Lincoln an exaggeration at best? No one is better equipped to answer such questions than Harold Holzer... [read more]
From City Hall News (October 10, 2008)
Holzer Presents His Memo to the President-Elect, Vintage 1860
by David Giambusso
On the subject of Abraham Lincoln, Harold Holzer-like Lincoln himself-is largely self-taught. In fact, Holzer remembers that his Civil War professor at CUNY did not even like him. "I decided then that I wasn't going to be a history academic. I was going to get into it my own way," he said... [read more]
From The New York Times (February 28, 2007)
One
Night Only. Gingrich vs. Cuomo in Elevated Discourse
By Sam Roberts
On Feb. 27, 1860, a “large and enthusiastic assemblage” of 1,500
or so actually paid to hear a relatively obscure and recently defeated United
States Senate candidate from the Midwest audition for the presidency... [
read more]
From the Los Angeles Times (December 29, 2006)
Lincoln:
Focus On the Real Foe
By Harold Holzer
How would four of the greatest war leaders in history have handled Iraq? President Bush has often cited Lincolnian resolve to justify staying the course
in Iraq. He takes inspiration from the knowledge that Abraham Lincoln too
endured failure, frustration and dissent, not to mention more American casualties
on a single day at Antietam than we've lost in all four years in Iraq. Yet
Lincoln still persuaded the North to persevere "until every drop of blood
drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword."
[read
more]
From Schenectady Daily Gazette (April 1, 2006)
Lincoln Expert Fond
of N.Y. Politics.
By Bill Buell - The Daily Gazette
Having authored, co-written or edited 24 books on Abraham Lincoln, Harold
Holzer, it can be assumed, knows quite a lot about our nation’s 16th
president and his close associates, including New Yorker and Union College
grad William Seward, his secretary of state... [read more]
From Albany Times Union (April 11, 2006)
Author is given a key to city.
Harold Holzer, who serves as senior vice president of external affairs at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, recently received a key to
the city of Schenectady.
Holzer is the author of dozens of magazine articles and books about Abraham
Lincoln.
He was the recipient of the coveted Lincoln Prize for his 1995 book "Lincoln
at Cooper Union: the Speech that made Abraham Lincoln President."
Mayor Brian Stratton presented Holzer with the key during Holzer's appearance
as part of Union College's lecture series at the Nott Memorial on the campus.
From The Journal News (June 27, 2004)
The Courtier of New York
By GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
Writer Andrew Solomon fondly recalls the time he shared with Harold Holzer
and Bill Clinton in the Lincoln Bedroom... [read
more]
From The New York Times (April 8, 2004)
Sam Waterston, the star of the NBC drama "Law & Order"...[read
more]
Reviews
From The Seattle Times (October 30,2008)
Looking back at Lincoln's life and leadership
By STEVE RAYMOND
In "Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860–61" (Simon & Schuster, 595 pp., $30), Holzer, a Lincoln scholar with a distinguished list of titles to his credit, provides an unprecedentedly detailed look at Lincoln's activities during that crucial period, when the nation held its breath while Southern states seceded from the Union. Under enormous pressure to say or do something in response to the crisis, Lincoln abstained because, as president-elect, he still lacked authority. But he kept busy; office seekers badgered him around the clock, potential Cabinet appointees vied continually for his favor and in rare private moments the exhausted Lincoln scribbled notes that eventually found their way into his inaugural address.
Holzer offers a day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour account of Lincoln's life during this time, including some nice human touches: Lincoln never did learn to spell "inaugural" correctly, and on the morning of his inauguration ceremony he forgot to pay his bill when he checked out of his Washington, D.C., hotel.
This is a superb book, impeccably researched and entertainingly written. [read
more]
From Publishers Weekly (July 28, 2008)
Nonfiction Reviews
Even the most committed of Lincoln's fans have sometimes questioned his actions in the four months between his 1860 election and his inauguration: a period when seven states seceded from the Union. In an engrossing narrative, Holzer (Lincoln at Cooper Union), chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, painstakingly retraces Lincoln's few public statements and numerous private initiatives during this key period, revealing an astute political operator assessing the situation, organizing his government, reaching out to the South "and most of all, "[drawing] a line in the sand to prevent the spread of human slavery." Holzer shows Lincoln shrewdly and methodically manipulating friend and foe alike, while also taking the first cautious steps toward preparing both himself and his country for a grim trial by fire. [read
more]
From The Journal News (June 27, 2004)
Lincoln: A figure of speech
By GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
"For all of its universally acknowledged importance, Lincoln's Cooper
Union address has for years enjoyed a peculiar reputation," Harold Holzer
writes. "It is widely understood to have somehow propelled Lincoln to
the presidency. Yet it has been virtually ignored by generations of historians,
most of whom have relegated it to the status of exalted footnote."...[read
more]
Civil
War Book Review
Frank J Williams reviews Harold Holzer's Lincoln at Cooper Union
The time is February, the year, 1860, a Presidential year. The country is
dividing, North and South, over the issue of slavery. People are migrating
westward into the territories on the Great Plains, and the burning question
is whether some are to be held as property in the new land...[more]
Lincoln at Cooper Union:The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President
By Harold Holzer
Review by Steven E. Woodworth, TownHall.com
Harold Holzer's latest gem of a book examines the circumstances, meaning,
and consequences
of one of Abraham Lincoln's most important speeches. The speech that Lincoln
gave
at Cooper Union in...[read
more]
Press Releases
Harold Holzer Receives Award for Distinguished Scholarship at UTC's Civil War Press Symposium
The Hazel Dicken-Garcia Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Journalism History was awarded to Harold Holzer at the twenty-third annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Read the entire press release.
Holzer wins 2015 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for book on Lincoln and the press
The 2015 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize will go to winner Harold Holzer of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, for "Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion" (Simon & Schuster). The Prize is awarded by Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Holzer was chosen from 114 nominations as the 2015 recipient. He will receive $50,000 and a bronze replica of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' life-size bust "Lincoln the Man" in a ceremony April 23 in New York City.Read the entire press release.
The Civil War Round Table of New York Presents The Barondess/Lincoln Award For 2008 to Craig Symonds and a Special Barondess/Lincoln Bicentennial Prize to Harold Holzer
On February 4, 2009, the Civil War Round Table of New York, in its 58th year of continuous operation, presented the prestigious BARONDESS/LINCOLN AWARD for the 48th consecutive year to Dr. Craig Symonds, prize-winning author and professor emeritus at the United States Naval Academy, and a Special Barondess/Lincoln Bicentennial Prize to Harold Holzer, one of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. Read the entire press release.
Read the press release issued by the National Endowment for the Humanities announcing Harold Holzer as a 2008 National Humanities Medal recipient.
From National Endowment For Humanities (September 9, 2004)
HAROLD HOLZER TO DELIVER ENDOWMENT'S "HEROES OF HISTORY" LECTURE AT FORD'S
THEATRE Noted author and lecturer is co-chairman of Lincoln Bicentennial Commission...[read
more]
Read the press release issued by Simon & Schuster
in April 2004 to officially
announce the publication of Harold Holzer's Lincoln at Cooper
Union.
Videos
A Fireside Chat: Looking at the Emancipation Proclamation (September 21, 2012)
The preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862, days following the Battle of Antietam. It became effective January 1, 1863 as the nation entered its third year of civil war, forever changing the course of the war. Without question, the Emancipation Proclamation is one of the great American documents of freedom. In a program sponsored by the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, three of the foremost Lincoln scholars gathered to interpret, evaluate, and remember the Emancipation Proclamation at its 150th anniversary.
From C-SPAN's “Washington Journal”
Harold appeared live to discuss D. C. Emancipation and his new book “Emancipating Lincoln” with host Steve Scully.
From CBS NEWS (January 18, 2009)
Lincoln And Obama Links
Two presidential historians—Harold Holzer and Douglas Brinkley—sat down with CBS News to describe the political parallels and differences between Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln.
Harold Holzer: Transitions—Lincoln/FDR/Obama
Originally Posted November 30, 2008
The time between the election of a president and his taking office presents the challenge of incipient responsibility without direct power. At a time as difficult as the ones faced by Lincoln and FDR, President-Elect Obama will learn from the history of his predecessors.
Book TV: "Why Was Lincoln Murdered"
Originally Posted January 27, 2009
A panel of authors who have written books about President Lincoln debate the circumstances surrounding his assassination at the 10th Annual Lincoln Forum Symposium in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The panelists inlcude, James Swanson, author of "Manhunt," Michael Kauffman, author of "American Brutus," Louise Taper, author of "Right or Wrong God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth," Edward Steers, the editor of "The Trial," Thomas Reed Turner, author of "Beware the People Weeping," and Frank Williams, the Chairman of The Lincoln Forum. The panel is moderated by Harold Holzer, Vice Chairman of The Lincoln Forum.
