Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer born February 5 1949 is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the American Civil War Era He serves as director of Hunter Colleges Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute Holzer previously spent twentythree years as senior vice president for public affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York before retiring in 2015 In his work as a historian Holzer has authored coauthored and edited more than 52 books and contributed more than 550 articles to magazines and journals plus chapters and forewords for 60 additional books Many of his works have received awards including the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and four other awards in 2015 for his book Lincoln and the Power of the Press Description above from the Wikipedia article Harold Holzer licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia