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Welcome to
The Abraham Lincoln Association
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The Abraham Lincoln Association is pleased
to announce Harold Holzer
is the banquet speaker for
Abraham Lincoln's 201st Birthday
Celebration in Springfield, Illinois on
February 12, 2010
Tickets must be ordered by February 5, 2010
Harold Holzer, Senior Vice President for External Affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, serves also as
co-chairman of the U. S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, appointed by President Clinton.
He is the author , co-author, or editor of 33 books on Lincoln and the Civil War era. Among them are The Linocln Image, The Confederate 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, The Lincoln Family Album, Lincoln on Democracy (co-edited with Mario Cuomo), which was published in four languages, and Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President, which won a 2005 Lincoln Prize.
His latest books are Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter1860-1861 (2008), which won the Barondess/Lincoln award and the Award of Achievement of the Lincoln Group of New York; The Lincoln Anthology (2009), a Library of America collection featuring 150 years of great writers on the subject
Abraham Lincoln; and In Lincoln's Hand (2009), a Library of Congress book featuring
Lincoln's original manuscripts with commentary by distinguished Americans.
On February 12, 2009, The Abraham Lincoln Association led the national celebration of Lincoln's 200th birthday. President Barack Obama was the guest of honor at the Association's birthday banquet on the evening of February 12 in Springfield. Each person attending received a gift--Lincoln In Illinois, a commemorative book of photographs of the statues of Lincoln in Illinois.
We invite you to be a part of the Association's tradition of leadership in disseminating the remarkable story of the Greatest American--Abraham Lincoln.
Welcome to the Abraham Lincoln Association.
Richard E. Hart
President
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