Join us as Harold Holzer Headlines the Annual Lincoln Birthday Banquet

The Lincoln Group of DC and the Civil War Round Table of DC are excited to announce that Lincoln Prize winning historian Harold Holzer will keynote our annual joint Lincoln’s birthday banquet. Holzer will speak on the topic of “Lincoln and Immigration,” based on his just released book, Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation’s demographics, culture, and—perhaps most significantly—voting patterns. America’s newest residents fueled the national economy, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape and exposed an ugly, at times violent, vein of nativist bigotry. Abraham Lincoln’s rise ran parallel to this turmoil, but even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln’s Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the…