Harold Holzer’s 2009 AASLH Annual Meeting keynote address in which he discusses at length the unlikely journey of Abraham Lincoln from boyhood to presidency. He then parallels Lincoln’s and Obama’s journey to the White House. He says that both presidents have provided a light of hope to a divided country and an assurance for a different future. Download at: http://resource.aaslh.org/view/harold-holzer-keynote-speaker-2009-aaslh-annual-meeting/