The Empire State Archives and History Award Honoring Douglas Brinkley with Host Harold Holzer

The Empire State Archives & History Award was created by the New York State Archives Partnership Trust to acknowledge the outstanding contributions of a national figure to advance the understanding and uses of history within our society. Hosted by renowned Lincoln Scholar, Harold Holzer, this award of distinction has been bestowed to C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb; historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Beschloss, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harold Holzer, James McPherson, Robert Caro, Ron Chernow, David McCullough, Annette Gordon-Reed, Jon Meacham, and Lonnie Bunch; documentarian Ken Burns; and actors Sam Waterson, Richard Dreyfuss, and Stephen Lang for their popularization of history and civic literacy.