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Harold Holzer, senior vice president for external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 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, he serves as co-chairman of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. Holzer is the author, co-author, or editor of twenty-nine books, including The Lincoln Image (1984) with Mark E. Neely Jr. and Gabor S. Boritt; The Lincoln Family Album (1990) with Neely; Lincoln on Democracy (with Mario Cuomo, 1990); The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1993); Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President (1993); Lincoln as I Knew Him (1999); Lincoln Seen and Heard (2000); and Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President (2004), which won a 2005 Lincoln Prize. In addition, Holzer has authored several Lincoln volumes for young readers, written nearly four hundred articles for popular magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers, and contributed chapters to more than twenty books. Holzer has appeared on documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, and the History Channel as well as on The Today Show, The Charlie Rose Show, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and many Lincoln-themed programs on C-SPAN. He lectures throughout the country and has organized Lincoln symposia and national traveling exhibitions of art of the Civil War era. He is also founding vice chairman of the Lincoln Forum and serves on the board of directors of the Ulysses S. Grant Association. Holzer has won numerous prizes for his work—some of them repeatedly —including the Barondess Award of the Civil War Round Table of New York; the Award of Achievement from the Lincoln Group of New York; the first annual award from the Manuscript Society of America in 1996 for his use of original manuscripts in Dear Mr. Lincoln; and the coveted NevinsFreeman Award of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago. For more about the author, including his schedule of public appearances, visit www.haroldholzer.com. ...

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