Historian Harold Holzer on Abraham Lincoln
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A photograph of President Abraham Lincoln taken by Matthew Brady in 1861.
Image courtesy of the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection
Historian Harold Holzer gives the 2015 Lincoln Lecture at the Minnesota History Center, "Lincoln and the Press in 1865: Mayhem, Manhunts and Martyrdom." Holzer is author of "Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion" and "President Lincoln Assassinated." He spoke August 19, 2015 in St. Paul, Minn.
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