Harold Holzer 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, and frequent guest on television, he serves as co-chairman of the United States Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, appointed by President Clinton in September 2000, and elected co-chairman in 2001.  Holzer has authored, co-authored, and edited 31 books: The Lincoln Image (1984); Changing the Lincoln Image (1985); and The Confederate Image, (1987) – all with Mark E. Neely, Jr. and Gabor S. Boritt; The Lincoln Family Album (1990); and Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Civil War in Art (1993), among others. His book Lincoln At Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (2004), won a 2005 Lincoln Prize, the most prestigious award in the field.