GARY | The starting time for today's presentation at Indiana University Northwest by acclaimed Abraham Lincoln scholar and author Harold Holzer, Ph.D., has been moved up from 6 to 3 p.m., according to university officials.

The time change was necessary in order to facilitate additional meetings between Holzer and IU Northwest faculty and students during the afternoon. Holzer's presentation remains free and open to the public, and all who can are encouraged to attend.

Holzer will appear at IUN as part of a special convocation program in honor of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. He will deliver a presentation inspired by his latest book, "Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-61."

Holzer is the author, coauthor or editor of 31 books on Lincoln and the Civil War, including "Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President." That book earned Holzer the 2005 Lincoln Prize, the most coveted and prestigious award in the field of Lincoln scholarship.

"Lincoln President-Elect" reveals in colorful detail the four months between Lincoln's election as America's 16th president in 1860 and his inauguration in March, 1861.

For more information, call Assistant Professor of History Christopher Young, Ph.D., at (219) 980-6661, or the IUN Office of Academic Affairs at (219) 980-6707.

- For The Times