Abraham Lincoln: Portrayed in the Collections of the Indiana Historical Society - Hardcover

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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, he serves as co-chairman of the United States Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, appointed by President Clinton in September 2000, and elected co-chairman in 2001. Holzer has authored, co-authored, and edited 25 books: The Lincoln Image (1984); Changing the Lincoln Image (1985); and The Confederate Image, (1987), all with Mark E. Neely, Jr. and Gabor S. Boritt; The Lincoln Family Album (1990), Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Civil War in Art (1993), and The Union Image (2000) with Neely; and Lincoln on Democracy (1990) with Mario M. Cuomo. He has also published The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1993); Washington and Lincoln Portrayed (1993); Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President (1993); Witness to War (1996); The Civil War Era (1996); The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President (1998); The Union Preserved (with Daniel Lorello, 1999), The Lincoln Forum: Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, and the Civil War (co-edited with John Y. Simon and William Pederson, 1999); Lincoln as I Knew Him (1999); Lincoln Seen and Heard (2000); Abraham Lincoln, The Writer (2000, named to the Children's Literature Choice List, and the Bank Street "Best Children's Books of the Year"); Prang's Civil War: The Complete Battle Chromos of Louis Prang (2001), State of the Union: New York and the Civil War (2002); The Lincoln Forum: Rediscovering Abraham Lincoln (co-edited with John Y. Simon, 2002); and The President is Shot! The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (2004). His book Lincoln At Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (2004), won a 2005 Lincoln Prize, the most prestigious award in the field Holzer's newest books are Lincoln in the Times: The Life of Abraham Lincoln as Originally Reported in the New York Times, co-edited with David Herbert Donald (St. Martin's Press, November 2005), which presents for the first time in a single volume the original press coverage Lincoln elicited in the country's newspaper of record, with expert introductions and commentary by Holzer and Donald; The Battle of Hampton Roads: New Perspectives on the U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia (co-edited with Tim Mulligan); and The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (coauthored with Edna Greene Medford and Frank J. Williams). Coming this fall from SIU Press is a new and enlarged edition of The Lincoln Family Album, co-authored with Mark E. Neely, Jr.