Howard Holzer

  About the Author:

  Harold Holzer is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the American Civil War era.He serves as director of Hunter College Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. In his work as a historian, Holzer has authored, co-authored, and edited 56 books and contributed more than 600 articles to magazines and journals, in addition to chapters and forewords for 71 books.

  In 2008, Holzer received the National Humanities Medal from President Bush and The Lincoln Medal of Honor from the Lincoln  Society of Springfield, Illinois, the state's highest honor

  About the Book:

 Recently published, Brought Forth on This Continent, is the first book ever to analyze Lincoln’s approach to     immigrants. Immigration nationwide became central to the survival of the Union as the Sectional Divide exploded into the  Civil War. Professor Holzer posits, "The Civil War could not have been won without Lincoln's leadership; but it could not have been fought without the immigrant soldiers who served and, by the tens of thousands, died that the nation might live."