James Barron
February 13, 2026
“‘Did you know that each of the five boroughs has a borough historian, appointed by the borough president?” The New Yorker magazine once asked. “Well, we didn’t, either, until a reader tipped us off.’
‘God knows just what they do,’ the reader had scoffed.
Harold Holzer — the author, co-author or editor of 55 books, most of them about Abraham Lincoln — is about to find out. He has just been appointed the Manhattan borough historian by Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who was sworn in as the Manhattan borough president last month.”
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