Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the American Civil War Era. He served for nine years as co-chairman of the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission , appointed to the commission by President Bill Clinton in 2000 and elected co-chair by his fellow commissioners. In June 2010 he was elected chairman of the ALBC's successor organization, The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. In his full-time professional career, he serves as Senior Vice President for External Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he is... responsible for marketing, communications, government relations, internal communications, admissions, visitor services, and multicultural audience development at the nation's largest art institution. In his work as a historian, Holzer has authored, co-authored, and edited 42 books, as well as nearly 500 articles for magazines and journals, plus chapters and forewords for 40 additional books.
more