On Abraham Lincoln's birthday: hear historian Harold Holzer

Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Abraham Lincoln in a photograph by Alex Gardner from the last formal portrait sitting, Feb. 5, 1865, in Washington, D.C.
Alex Gardner / Library of Congress

Renowned Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer tells us this hour about Abraham Lincoln's presidency, his assassination, and his mostly unknown career as a newspaper man. Harold Holzer gave the 2015 "Lincoln Lecture" at the Minnesota Historical Society. He titled it "Lincoln and the Press in 1865: Mayhem, Manhunts and Martyrdom."

Holzer was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush and is now at Hunter College in New York. His two newest books are titled, "Lincoln and the Power of the Press" and "President Lincoln Assassinated!!"

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