![]() ![]() This postwar period shined a light on the possibilities of America’s future, one of which was making higher education available to all, as it is at Lehigh, he said. ![]() ![]() ![]() The founding of Lehigh tells a story about the America that recalibrated itself after the Civil War, Holzer said. “I’m delighted to be sharing the event with you, and deeply grateful that you’ve asked me to reflect a bit on my own specialty-the life of Abraham Lincoln and the history of his times-on this historic weekend in your life and times,” Holzer said to the audience gathered inside Packer Memorial Church on a cloudy spring evening. Fanton Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, is a leading authority on Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. Drawing on the history of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln’s military, political and moral leadership, renowned historian Harold Holzer used one of the late President’s favorite sayings to advise graduates during Saturday’s Baccalaureate to “pluck a thistle and plant a flower where a flower will grow” as they go out into the world after Lehigh. ![]()
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