May 22 • Harold and Allen Guelzo in conversation at the New York Historical Society, Central Park West and 77th Street, New York City, on the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 6:30 PM. For more information: dgregory@nyhistory.org, 212-873-3400, or www.nyhistory.com

May 28-30 • Harold speaks at Conference, “The Most Important Elections in American History”—addressing the 1860 campaign—at Robert Todd Lincoln’s Hildene, Manchester, VT. For more information about registration, www.hildene.org

June 13 • Speaks to K-12 teachers on the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.

June 22-28 • Harold participates in the annual Civil War Institute—dedicated this year to the Lincoln Bicentennial—Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA. For CWI registration information, 717-337-6590, civilwar@ Gettysburg.edu, or www.gettysburg.edu/civil war.

August 8-9 • Participates in Indiana Lincoln Bicentennial weekend—speaking on Lincoln as President-elect in Indiana. Co-sponsored by the Indiana Historical Society. For more information, ekelley@indianahistory.org

August 15-16 • Participates in Pennsylvania “Live and Learn” book circle weekend. For more information, lsloan@state.pa.us

Sept. 17 • Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich annual meeting. For more information, www.hstg.org, or 203-869-6899.

Sept. 20 • Participates with other Lincoln scholars in National Archives Bicentennial symposium, “Lincoln and American Values,” Washington, D.C. Free and open to the public. For more information, susan.clifton@nara.gov

October 22 • Dialogue with Michael Beschloss at The Egg, Albany, New York, sponsored by the New York State Archives Partnership Trust. Includes book-signings. For more information, rbullock@mail.nysed.gov

Book tour for Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861 (Simon & Schuster, October)
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.


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COMING SOON

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

PUBLICATION DATE: OCTOBER 24, 2008
A Book-of-the-Month Club and History Book Club main selection
The first book in 50 years on the secession winter that led to the Civil War—and Lincoln’s strong role as President-elect in holding off the spread of slavery.
The book features 16-pages of glossy illustrations, and several reproductions in the text of cartoons, documents, and photographs.
Harold will appear in Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, Des Moines, Gettysburg, Philadelphia, and Richmond to promote the book. And in New York, watch for the author in November at the Lincoln Group (November 11), the Civil War Round Table (November 12), and the 92nd Street Y (in an on-stage conversation with Mario Cuomo, November 13).

Lincoln and Freedom:
Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment
Harold Holzer and
Sarah Vaughn Gabbard

“Lincoln and Freedom provides abundant useful information, much of it new, on Abraham Lincoln, slavery, emancipation and the Thirteenth Amendment. Moreover, the authors deal with their subjects through a variety of approaches and interpretive lenses, thereby furnishing readers with several perspectives on these important subjects.”—Richard W. Etulain, author of Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West

Lincoln’s reelection in 1864 was a pivotal moment in the history of the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation had officially gone into effect on January 1, 1863, and the proposed Thirteenth Amendment had become a campaign issue. Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment captures these historic times, profiling the individuals, events, and enactments that led to slavery’s abolition. Fifteen leading Lincoln scholars contribute to this collection, covering slavery from its roots in 1619 Jamestown, through the adoption of the Constitution, to Abraham Lincoln’s presidency.
This comprehensive volume, edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard, presents Abraham Lincoln’s response to the issue of slavery as politician, president, writer, orator, and commander-in-chief.

Lincoln Revisited
Edited by John Y. Simon,
Harold Holzer, and
Dawn Vogel
In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet’s politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year historians find something new and important to say about the greatest of our Presidents.
Lincoln Revisited is a masterly guidebook to what’s new and what’s noteworthy in this unfolding story—a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time. Brought together by The Lincoln Forum, they tackle uncharted territory and emerging questions; they also take a new look at established debates—including those about their own landmark works.
Here, these well-known historians revisit key chapters in Lincoln’s legacy—from Matthew Pinsker on Lincoln’s private life and Jean Baker on religion and the Lincoln marriage to Geoffrey Perret on Lincoln as leader and Frank J. Williams on Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime.
The eighteen original essays explore every corner of Lincoln’s world—religion and politics, slavery and sovereignty, presidential leadership and the rule of law, the Second Inaugural Address and the assassination