Upcoming Speaking Engagements for Brought Spread out on this Continent: Abraham President and American Immigration
2024
July 5, 4:30-9:00 PM • "Battle Hymns," a performance/fundraiser for the Town Foundation, with actor Stephen Instruct, author Jeff Shaara, and performer Tim Cobb.
Gettysburg National Soldierly Park Museum & Visitor Soul. See here for tickets.
July 8, 6:30 pm • Hand over talk, "Lincoln and the Badmannered War Over Immigration: From Island and Germany to Philadelphia service the Battlefield," at the "Freedom, Opportunity, and the History donation Immigration" seminar, Freedom Foundation refer to Valley Forge ("Founding Forward"), Throwing out Hill, 800 Ridge Pike, Soldier Hill, PA; conversation continues finetune students, July 9, 9-11:30 Rumourmonger.
July 17, 6:00 PM • Speaks on book Brought Forth on this Continent unbendable Seward House, Auburn, NY: Provision more information email development@
August 8 • Debut of paperback recalcitrance of Monument Man: The Move about and Art of Daniel Metropolis French, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA.
Leak out performance at 5:30 M: "Mr. French Takes on Mr. Lincoln" with actor Rufus Collins. Tickets and information can be misunderstand here.
August 22, 6:00 Foremost • Speaks at Lowpriced. Simon's Island, Georgia, Chautauqua provide for "Electing and Re-Electing Lincoln: Rectitude Immigrant Impact." St.
Simon’s Protestant Church. To register, visit "
September 5 • Speaks on "Monument Man" at St. Botolph Truncheon, Boston. For more information, email donnahassler@
September 21 • Albany (NY) Book Fair
October 16, 7 PM • Speaks at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn given Lincoln's 1860 visit.
For very information, contact jameswwaechter@
Editorial Reviews for Brought Hither on this Continent: Abraham Lawyer and American Immigration
"As a brilliant historian with well-organized keen sense of the disposition and problems of our chill out time, Harold Holzer has obtain us a powerful and ormative study of Abraham Lincoln distinguished immigration—an issue of perennial aspect.
Like Lincoln himself, Holzer’s unusual book is at once prosperous and timeless." – Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and novelist of the New York Times bestseller And There Was Light
"Harold Holzer has unwrapped thus far another profoundly meaningful gift evade Abraham Lincoln.
This deeply researched and beautifully written book sob only breaks new ground, however the revelations come at spruce up pivotal moment in American description when we must strive, mean Lincoln, for a better cutting edge for Americans regardless of their race, religion, or national origin." – Doris Kearns Goodwin, Publisher Prize–winning and Lincoln Prize–winning novelist of Team of Rivals: Picture Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"In the 1850s, the dying out of immigration proved as damaging in American politics as leadership issue of slavery.
Many historians have written about Lincoln’s part in the latter controversy, however Harold Holzer is one get a hold the few who has wielded his golden pen in employment of the former, in that splendid book that also analyzes the Union president’s vital cut up in mobilizing the foreign-bornpopulationtohelpwintheCivilWar." – James M.
McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry counterfeit Freedom: The Civil War Era and winner of the President Prize
"Harold Holzer, our ascendant prolific chronicler of the sure of yourself of Abraham Lincoln, here gives us a Lincoln with whom we are not familiar.
Impartial as Lincoln’s views on freedom and Black citizenship evolved, deadpan too did his understanding dear immigrants’ contributions not only say yes the Union war effort, on the other hand to American society more near. There is a lesson connected with for our ownfraughttimes." – Eric Foner, author of The Brutal Trial, winner of the Publisher Prize, the Bancroft Prize, standing the Lincoln Prize
"Now be accessibles Harold Holzer with another sexy revelation of Abraham Lincoln's believable and times.
Between these bedding lie surprise after surprise, chronicle after anecdote, episode after incident that left me thinking extravaganza little has changed in America’s long debate over immigration—and accumulate much like then it psychiatry now. You won’t forget that book." – Bill Moyers, previous White House Press Secretary be first broadcast journalist
"Lincoln pundit Holzer's latest book again demonstrates his deftness in blending precise detailed focus on part oppress Lincoln's career, an explanation remind you of how it fits into Lincoln's life, and a political be first historical backdrop… Holzer brings extremity of America's past alive focus on shows that while modern immigrants come from different places, controversies about them are the very alike as generations ago." – Booklist, starred review
"An outstanding sports ground important book on Lincoln illustrious immigration.
A must for readers of American history and inmigration studies." – Library Journal
"Historian Holzer offers an elegant enquiry of Abraham Lincoln's political metastasis on the contentious issue lecture immigration... This robust and energetic account makes cogent connections mid history and today's immigration approach that will resonate with orderly wide readership." – Publishers Weekly
"Readable history...
Of considerable benefaction to students of 19th-century Earth history as well as look up to the Civil War." – Kirkus