His other recent volumes include Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America, the official young adult companion book to the Steven Spielberg film, for which he served as historical advisor. He also appeared on the 2005 History Channel special Lincoln; on that network's History Center series, on American Heritage Presents the Lincoln Assassination (1995), and the specials Assassins: John Wilkes Booth, Investigating History: Lincoln-Man vs. and the Bank Street "Best Children’s Books of the Year, and his most recent young reader’s history, "Father Abraham," has won a number of awards, including the first James "Bud" Robertson Award for Best Young Readers’ Book from The Civil War Round Table of New York.
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Other recent titles include President Lincoln Assassinated!
manuscripts in Dear Mr. Lincoln. Holzer was born on February 5, 1949, in Queens, New York to Charles and Rose Holzer, a construction contractor and homemaker, respectively. In 2004, he was the For the 2009 Lincoln bicentennial, Holzer appeared on a number of national television specials, including Q&A with Brian Lamb from Washington’s Willard Hotel; See also. 2005, 2009, 2015; plus honorable mentions in 1999 for the exhibition Lincoln
He has also organized several Lincoln symposia and curated six museum exhibitions, notably the award-winning 1999 Lincoln Museum exhibit
MLincoln Association, and the editorial advisory board Published credits of Harold Holzer include President Is Shot! You could also do it yourself at any point in time. Holzer has also issued the 2014 book The Civil War in 50 Objects, written for The New-York Historical Society.
Harold Holzer is known for his work on Lincoln (1992), President Lincoln's Inauguration Re-enactment (2011) and Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray (2011). State Archives Preservation Trust Board, Union as a Contributing Editor), Civil War Harold Holzer has authored, co-authored, and edited 49 books. Washington groused about his treatment in the newspapers, but his successor, John Adams, actually wielded his executive power to overturn press freedoms and prosecute critical reporters. In 2012, Governor Cuomo appointed him co-chair of the N.Y. State "Pathways Through History" initiative.
Last modified : 2010-06-07 Society. He has also served as a member of the New York City World War I Commission. A prolific writer and lecturer, and frequent guest on television, Holzer served for six years (2010–2016) as Chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. and later presented Senator John Edwards, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and President Barack Obama. His latest major book, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion, won the 2015 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Educated at the Queens College of City University of New York, Holzer began his career as a newspaper reporter and, later, editor of the New York weekly The Manhattan Tribune. The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their
MLetterbook of John Frederick Hartranft (2009) work, Holzer won a second-place Lincoln Prize for his Cooper Union book in 2005, and won the prize itself in 2015. Harold Holzer has authored, coauthored, and edited twenty-two books on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, including The Lincoln Image, Lincoln Seen and Heard, Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President, Lincoln as I Knew Him, and Lincoln on Democracy.