PROGRAM CANCELLATION: This program has been canceled because it has just been announced that Harold Holzer is being awarded the 2016 Goldsmith Book Prize the evening of March 3 for Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion. This award—which recognizes an outstanding trade and academic book that examines the intersection between the media, politics, and public policy—is presented by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Best known for his role in preserving the Union and destroying slavery, Abraham Lincoln also had both opportunities and obligations to confront, cure, or temper seething resentment against new immigrants to America. How the Civil War president responded, Harold Holzer suggests, may provide inspiration in the furious contemporary debate on immigration.

Harold Holzer, the author, co-author, or editor of 51 books on Lincoln and the Civil War era, is Jonathan F. Fanton Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.

LOCATION

The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024