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Harold Holzer

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Lincoln's Duel

In the summer of 1842, young Abraham Lincoln’s razor-sharp wit almost got him into a whole heap of trouble.

by Harold Holzer via The Saturday Evening Post on February 12, 2025
How Northern Publishers Cashed In on Fundraising for Confederate Monuments

In the years after the Civil War, printmakers in New York and elsewhere abetted the Lost Cause movement by selling images of false idols.

by Harold Holzer via Smithsonian on July 7, 2020
Empty Pedestals

What should be done with civic monuments to the Confederacy and its leaders?

by James J. Broomall, Megan Kate Nelson, Dana B. Shoaf, William C. Davis, Lesley J. Gordon, Harold Holzer, Michael J. McAfee, Thomas V. Strain Jr., Catherine Clinton, Christy S. Coleman, D. Scott Hartwig, Robert K. Krick, Joseph McGill, Ethan Sepp Rafuse, Susannah J. Ural via Civil War Times Magazine on October 1, 2017

Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration

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A Public Health Services physician checking a woman immigrating into the United States for illness.

How the Irish Became Everything

Two new books explore the messy complexities of immigration—from the era of Lincoln to Irish New York.

by Tom Deignan via Commonweal on November 1, 2024

55th Massachusetts marches through Charleston, 1865.

Elevating the Few

What J.D. Vance excludes from the history of the Civil War and immigration.

by Elizabeth R. Varon via HNN on July 16, 2025

Abraham Lincoln in a photo circa 1847.

Abraham Lincoln’s Love Letters Captivated America. They Were a Hoax.

The Atlantic Monthly reported on newly found love letters between Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, his supposed sweetheart. Even biographers fell for the hoax.

by Randy Dotinga via Retropolis on February 20, 2023

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