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Abraham Lincoln Association
Lincoln Symposium
When: February 12, 2010
Where: The Old State Capitol
Springfield, Illinois
1:00 p.m.
Theme: Lincoln's Critics
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Speakers:
William C. Harris, emeritus Professor of History at North Carolina State University, was the recipient of the Lincoln Prize in 1998 for his book With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union (winner of the Lincoln Prize, awarded in 1998). Has written extensively on Lincoln and the Civil War era.
Other titles by Harris include The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi; Willam Hoods Holden: Firebrand of North Carolina Politics; and Lincoln's Last Months (awarded the Abraham Lincoln Institute Award for best book in 2004).
William C. Harris
Eric H. Walther, is associate Professor of History at the University of Houston. His most recent book is William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War (2006), a biography of the South's leading secessionists. This book received the James Rawley Award from the Southern Historical Association and the Jefferson Davis Award from the Museum of the Conferderacy.
Dr. Walther is the author of three books, numberous articles and book reviews. Shattering of the Union: American in the 1850's, won a Choice Magazine book award in 2004.
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Eric H. Walther
Jennifer L. Weber, is assistant Professor of History at the University of Kansas. She is author of Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North (2006). It is about antiwar Democrats in the Civil War north.
Dr. Weber is a native of California who received her M.A. and Ph. D. from Princeton, an M. A. from California Sate University, Sacramento, and a B. S. from Northwestern. Her principal interest is the Civil War, especially the seams where political, social and military history come together. Other fields that attract her include 19th century Amercia and war and society. She is currently working on a children's book on the battle of Gettysburg, to be published by National Geographic; a collection of essays in honor of her graduate advisor, James M. McPherson.
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Jennifer L. Weber
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February 12, 2009
Luncheon with Speaker
featuring
Richard Fox
Please order tickets by February 5, 2010
When: Doors open at 11:00 a.m.
Where: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, IL
2nd Floor Multi-Purpose room
Cost: $25.00
Tickets available through the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
http://www.alplm.org
Dr. Fox's books will be available for purchase prior to the event
Richard Fox is Professor of History at the University of Southern California, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in nineteenth-century American history. He is the author of books on two well-known admirers of Abraham Lincoln: Henry Ward Beecher (Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal, University of Chicago Press, 1999) and Reinhold Niebuhr (Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography, Pantheon Books, 1985). Most recently he published Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession (Harper, 2004). Now he is writing a book treating the aftermath of Lincoln’s assassination to be published by Norton).
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Richard Fox
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Abraham Lincoln Association
Birthday Banquet
Tickets available until February 5, 2010
When: February 12, 2010
Where: The Crowne Plaza Hotel
Springfield, Illinois
6:00 p.m. Reception
7:00 p.m. Dinner
Speaker: Harold Holzer
Cost: $85 per ticket
A shuttle bus will be available at 5:45 and 6:30 to take
guests at the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel and the downtown
Hilton to the Crowne Plaza. It will also take guests back after the banquet.
TO PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE, GO TO THE DIRECTORY ON THE
ALA HOME PAGE
HAROLD HOLZER
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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 Lincoln 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 has been 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 Winter 1860-1861 (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 of Abraham Lincoln; and In Lincoln’s Hand (2009), a Library of Congress book featuring Lincoln’s original manuscripts with commentary by distinguished Americans.
Holzer has also written more than 425 articles over the past 35 years in both scholarly and popular publications, and contributed chapters and prefaces to some 30 additional volumes. He has won research and writing awards from the Illinois State Historical Society, the Manuscript Society, the Civil War Round Tables of New York and Chicago, and the Lincoln Groups of New York, Peekskill, and Washington. In 2008 he was awarded the National Endowment Medal by President Bush.
In addition to his writing, Holzer lectures throughout the nation. His program “Lincoln Seen and Heard,” with actor Sam Waterston, has been staged and broadcast from such venues as the White House, the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library, the Clinton Presidential Library, the Library of Congress, and Ford’s Theatre. Their new program, “Lincoln in American Memory,” will be televised by PBS on Bill Moyers’ Journal this April. He also appears frequently on C-SPAN and the History Channel, and has served as an on-air commentator for such Lincoln Bicentennial specials as Looking for Lincoln and Stealing Lincoln’s Body.
Holzer served as guest curator for a number of Lincoln art exhibitions, including several at the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, and will be guest historian for the fall 2009 show “Lincoln and New York” at the New-York Historical Society.
A former journalist, and political and government press secretary (for both Bella Abzug and Mario Cuomo), Holzer has served as an executive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1992. He and his wife, Edith, who live in Rye, New York, have two grown daughters and a grandson.
March 2009
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