Harold Holzer was born on February 5,1949 and is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the American Civil War Era.
23 Facts About Harold Holzer
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Harold Holzer serves as director of Hunter College's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute.
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Harold Holzer was born on February 5,1949, in Queens, New York to Charles and Rose Harold Holzer, a construction contractor and homemaker, respectively.
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Harold Holzer attended Queens College of the City University of New York where he earned a bachelor of arts in 1969.
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Harold Holzer began his career as a newspaper reporter and then editor of The Manhattan Tribune.
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Harold Holzer then served as press secretary to Congresswoman Bella S Abzug, press secretary to 1977 mayoral candidate Mario Cuomo, a government speechwriter for New York City Mayor Abraham D Beame, and for six years as public affairs director for WNET.
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From 1984 through 1992 Harold Holzer worked in the administration of Governor Mario Cuomo.
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In 1992, Harold Holzer joined The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as chief communications officer.
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Harold Holzer was elevated to vice president in 1996 and senior vice president for public affairs in 2005 with responsibilities over government affairs, multi-cultural development, admissions, and visitor services.
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Harold Holzer remains a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum representing the New York City Comptroller.
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Since 2015, Harold Holzer has served as director of Hunter College's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute.
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Harold Holzer served for nine years as co-chairman of the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, appointed to the commission by President Bill Clinton in 2000 and elected co-chair by his fellow commissioners.
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Harold Holzer has served as president of the Lincoln Group of New York, on the board of directors of the Abraham Lincoln Association and New York's Civil War Round Table, and on the editorial advisory boards of The Lincoln Herald, American Heritage, and Civil War Times.
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Harold Holzer was the founding vice chairman of The Lincoln Forum and currently serves as chairman.
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From 2012 to 2015, Harold Holzer served as a Roger Hertog Fellow at the New-York Historical Society.
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Harold Holzer was a script consultant to the Steven Spielberg film, Lincoln, and wrote the official young readers' companion book to the movie.
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Harold Holzer has appeared on The History Channel, PBS, The Today Show, Bill Moyers Journal, CBS Sunday Morning, Morning Joe, The Lou Dobbs Show, History Detectives, and The Charlie Rose Show.
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Harold Holzer co-organized "The First Step to Freedom," a multicity, sesquicentennial exhibition of Lincoln's original Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which debuted at the Schomburg Library in Harlem on September 22,2012.
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In 2008, Harold Holzer received the National Humanities Medal from President Bush and The Lincoln Medal of Honor from the Lincoln Society of Springfield, Illinois, the state's highest honor.
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Harold Holzer won a second-place 2005 Lincoln Prize.
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Harold Holzer has won lifetime achievement awards from The Civil War Round Tables of New York, Chicago, and Kansas City, and from Lincoln groups in Washington and New York.
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Harold Holzer won the DAR History Award Medal in 2012.
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In 2015, Harold Holzer received The Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement.