Books by Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer has served since 2000 as co-chairman of the U. S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, to which he was appointed by President Clinton. He is the author, co-author, or editor of thirty-four books on Lincoln and the Civil War era. Among them are The Lincoln Image, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Lincoln as I Knew Him, Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Civil War in Art, Lincoln on Democracy (co-edited with Mario Cuomo), which has been published in four languages, and Lincoln at Cooper Union, which won a 2005 Lincoln Prize. Among his many other honors, he was presented the 2008 National Humanities Medal by President Bush. His latest books are Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861 (2008), which won the Barondess/Lincoln Award and awards of achievement from the Lincoln Group of New York and the Illinois State Historical Society; The Lincoln Anthology (2009), a Library of America collection featuring 150 year s of great writer s on the subject of Abraham Lincoln; and In Lincoln's Hand (2009), a Library of Congress book of Lincoln's original manuscripts with commentary by distinguished Americans. Contributors: Jean H. Baker, Barnet Schecter, Craig L. Symonds, James Oliver Horton, Frank J. Williams, Catherine Clinton and Michael Kammen.