Lincoln Debate: Craig Symonds & Harold Holzer at the Historical Society, Saturday, June 13

Saturday, June 13, 7:30 PM.

Co-sponsored by the Civil War Round Table of Fairfield County and the Stamford Historical Society.

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Emeritus professor of history Craig Symonds retired from the U.S. Naval Academy after thirty years of teaching. During that time, he won both the Naval Academy's "Excellence in Teaching" award (1988) and its "Excellence in Research" award (1998). A Civil War historian, Symonds has ten previously published books, including Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History, which won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in 2006. Lincoln and His Admirals, which focuses on naval strategies during the Civil War, recently won the prestigious Lincoln Prize, which is administered by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and has been awarded annually since 1991 for the best non-fiction historical work of the year on the American Civil War.

Harold Holzer is one of the 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. President Bush, in turn, awarded Holzer the Natiional Humanities Medal in 2008. Holzer currently serves as Senior Vice President for External Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.