Harold Holzer

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Will speak before a joint meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia and the Lincoln Group of DC on February 21, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. E.T. on "Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration" in the Grand Ballroom of the Patton Hall Officers' Club at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia. The session is open to all via Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/73777333091?pw...JuMGpidz09

One need not be a member of the CWRTDC or the LGDC to attend or to join the Zoom presentation.

F I N A L R E M I N D E R
Also: To Support the Ed Bearss Awards Fund,
Reserve a Book for Signature at http://cwrtdc-meetings.blogspot.com/

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FOR A VERY SPECIAL EVENING:

The CWRTDC's and LGDC's Joint Meeting
IN-PERSON OR VIA ZOOM
IN THE GRAND BALLROOM
OF THE FORT MYER OFFICERS' CLUB
The CWRTDC and LGDC are delighted to continue its tradition to host a joint in-person/hybrid meeting
to celebrate Lincoln's Birthday week with the following activities:
An extended social period in the elegant ballroom (the Koran Room) at Ft. Myer Officers' Club;
A presentation by renowned historian and author Harold Holzer entitled "Lincoln and American Immigration," and an opportunity to get a book signed by Mr. Holzer;
The presentation of the Ed Bearss Preservation and Legacy Awards; Additional Information about the Awards is available by clicking HERE (https://cwrtdc-calendar.blogspot.com/202...-of.html);
An opportunity to tell your favorite Ed Bearss stories at the meeting; if you would like to share your reminiscences of Ed or your favorite photos of Ed (with or without you), send them in an email to admin@cwrtdc.org;
An expanded book raffle (some signed) that guarantees you will be a winner!; and
An opportunity to get books signed by Mr. Holzer. Reserve a discounted copy of his book by using the payment module on the right-hand side of our website at http://cwrtdc-meetings.blogspot.com/
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with
HAROLD HOLZER
who will discuss
"Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration"
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
in the Grand Ballroom

at Patton Hall Officers' Club / Community Club at Fort Myer,

214 Buffalo Soldier Avenue (formerly 214 Jackson Avenue)

Arlington, VA 22211

(take the elevator to the right as you enter the building and press Floor 2, or take the stairs to up two levels)


Dinner Reservations Are Now Closed.
Contact us at admin@cwrtdc.org to be placed on a waiting list
(no reservations are needed to attend via Zoom)
Cancellations after the due date are non-refundable, as we must pay for the dinners regardless of the actual attendance.
TO SUPPORT THE ED BEARSS AWARDS FUND, RESERVE A DISCOUNTED COPY OF HOLZER'S BOOK, AThttp://cwrtdc-meetings.blogspot.com/
If you have any problems making reservations online or would like to know about alternatives to making reservations or payments online, please email admin@cwrtdc.org.

Attendees will need to enter For Myer by following the instructions available by clicking HERE (also see directions here) or (download them in pdf here)
Interactive Public Transportation Options are HERE

Please note our Covid policies and requirements (which have recently been revised) before registering,
available by downloading them from HERE (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c-94wht...jcW/view).

About the Topic:

Mr. Holzer will speak on the topic of “Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration,” based on his just released book, Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration.

In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation’s demographics, culture, and—perhaps most significantly—voting patterns. America’s newest residents not only fueled the national economy, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape and exposed an ugly, at times violent, vein of nativist bigotry.

Abraham Lincoln’s path to leadership ran parallel to this turmoil, and even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln’s Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the war made clear just how important immigrants were, and how interwoven they had become in American society.

Mr. Holzer charts Lincoln’s political career through the lens of immigration, from his role as a member of an increasingly nativist political party to his evolution into an immigration champion, a progression that would come at the same time as he refined his views on abolition and Black citizenship. As Holzer writes,

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.’

An utterly captivating and illuminating work, Brought Forth on This Continent assesses Lincoln's life and legacy in a wholly original way, unveiling remarkable similarities between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first.

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Source https://www.amazon.com/Brought-Forth-Thi...0451489012



About the Speaker:

Harold Holzer is the winner of The 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize and is one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. A prolific writer and lecturer, as well as a frequent guest on television, Mr. Holzer served for six years (2010–2016) as Chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. During the previous 10 years, he co-chaired the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC), as an appointee of President Clinton. Later, President Bush awarded Mr. Holzer the National Humanities Medal in 2008. And in 2013, Holzer wrote an essay on Lincoln for the official program at the re-inauguration of President Obama.

Mr. Holzer currently is the Jonathan F. Fanton Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College (https://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/) in New York City and the chairman of The Lincoln Forum (https://www.thelincolnforum.org/ .

For more information about Mr. Holzer and for a list of his numerous books and articles, visit his website at http://www.haroldholzer.com/


Schedule for In-Person Meeting
(See Below for Schedule for Remote Attendees)

5:00 pm ET: Social Period at Club for In-Person Attendees (cash bar)
6:00 pm ET: Presentation of the Ed Bearss Awards
6:30 pm ET: Reminiscences of Ed Bearss
6:45 pm ET: Start of Meeting/Introductions
7:00 pm ET: Start of Speaker Presentation and Q&A
Books available for purchase/signature following the presentation.

OR JOIN US VIA ZOOM
(No Reservations Needed)

Schedule for Zoom/Remote Attendees:
5:00 pm ET: Zoom Platform Opens for Remote Social Period (Optional)
6:00 pm ET: Remote Attendees Connected to In-Person Meeting
6:00 pm ET: Presentation of the Ed Bearss Awards
6:30 pm ET: Reminiscences of Ed Bearss
6:45 pm ET: Start of Meeting/Introductions
7:00 pm ET: Start of Speaker Presentation and Q&A

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Zoom Meeting URL/Link (Click on the link below):
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