Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer, a leading Abraham Lincoln scholar, is the chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. He has authored, co-authored and edited more than 50 books, including Dear Mr. Lincoln, Lincoln and the Power of the Press and his next, The Presidents vs. the Press: From the Founding Fathers to Fake News.

As the South rewrote of the history of the war and reaffirmed a dormant white supremacist ideology, the North’s printmakers, publishers and image makers operated right beside them.

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

Adulation for Lincoln (a Philadelphia lithographer’s viewpoint, 1865) did not become widespread until years after he was killed.

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

What the Newspapers Said When Lincoln Was Killed

The initial reaction to the president's death was a wild mixture of grief, exultation, vengefulness and fear

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