The Holzer Scholar Award is named in honor of Harold Holzer, Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, City University of New York.
Carving out a career in New York City, Holzer began not as an historian but a journalist and part of Mayor Mario Cuomo's campaign. Holzer later served a long tenure as Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his spare time, Holzer began researching and writing about Abraham Lincoln - an interest first sown when he found a book by Richard Nelson Current in his school library -and quickly became one of the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars. A recipient of the prestigious Lincoln Prize, Holzer has written 50+ books on the Civil War Era, serves as Chairperson of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation, and is currently a professor at Hunter College. JKC's Holzer Scholars exemplify the keen skill, insight, and initiative of historians like Harold Holzer. |
No Recipients to Date - 6/18/16
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Chair of History '16 Austin R. Justice with Holzer & others at the 2015 Lincoln Forum Symposium in Gettysburg.
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