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Lincoln Forum XXVIII
WHAT PRICE GLORY?
EMANCIPATION AND GETTYSBURG AT 160
November 16-18, 2023
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16
1:00 PM Registration Begins: Wyndham Lobby
4:00 PM First-Time Attendee Reception in Salon F
5:00 PM Cash Bar in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom Foyer
6:00 PM Buffet Dinner in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom
Welcome by Chairman Harold Holzer
Introduction of Scholarship Winners: Tom Horrocks, Ruth Squillace
Lincoln Presidential Foundation Lecture:
Remarks by Erin Carlson Mast
Steve Inskeep, “Cognitive Dissonance: How Lincoln Made Use of People who Disagreed with Him”
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17
6:30 AM Breakfast Buffet in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom (until 8:30 AM)
9:00 AM Moderator—Session 1: Jonathan W. White
Ronald C. White, “Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Through A Wide-Angle Lens”
10:00 AM Craig L. Symonds, “Farragut and Nimitz: Two Admirals, Two Wars, One Temperament”
11:00 AM Kate Masur, “We Ask Only for Evenhanded Justice: Fighting the Black Laws in Antebellum Illinois”
12:30 PM Buffet Lunch in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom
2:00 PM Moderator—Session 2: Michelle A. Krowl
Jonathan White, “A Tale of Two Slave Traders: Lincoln and the Destruction of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”
3:00 PM Panel: “Lincoln the Great Communicator” with Edward Achorn, Joseph Fornieri, Ronald White, Harold Holzer, and Erin Carlson Mast (moderator)
4:00 PM All-author Book Signing, Wyndham Lobby
5:30 PM Cash Bar in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom Foyer
6:30 PM Buffet Dinner in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom
Presentation of Lincoln Forum Awards
After-Dinner Appraisal with Daniel Weinberg
Concert: Jay Ungar and Molly Mason
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18
6:30 AM Breakfast Buffet in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom (until 8:30 AM)
7:30 AM Board of Advisors Annual Meeting
9:00 AM State of the Forum / Election of Officers for 2023-2024
Platt Family Essay Contest—Don McCue
9:30 AM Moderator—Session 3: Gen. Christopher Burne
Edward Achorn, “Abraham Lincoln: The Nominee Nobody Expected”
10:30 AM “African Americans Who Knew Lincoln by Heart,” a conversation between Fred Lee Hord and Edna Greene Medford
11:30 AM Panel: “Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?: Remembering the Civil War Dead” with Allen C. Guelzo, Michelle Krowl, Dana Shoaf, Melissa Winn, and Jonathan White (moderator)
1:00 PM Buffet Lunch in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom
2:00 PM First-Time Attendees’ Battlefield Tour with Carol Reardon
Breakout Sessions:
John Marszalek, Richard M. McMurry, and Craig L. Symonds: "Union Enemy: Joe Johnston at War"
Dave Wiegers, Scott Schroeder, and Frank Porcu: “Lincoln Statuary in History, Memory, and Photographs”
Jake Friefeld, Brian Mitchell, and John Rodrigue: “After the Proclamation: Black Life in the Wake of Emancipation”
Candace Shy Hooper and Susannah Ural: “Lincoln’s Forgotten Mailman”
Michelle Krowl, John Lupton, and Christian McWhirter: “What’s Left to Discover? Lincoln in the Archives”
Callie Hawkins, Erin Mast, and Sam Wheeler: “‘Here I Have Lived’: The Lincoln Home and the Lincoln Cottage as Sites of Historical Memory”
Edward Steers Jr. and Dennis J. Curran: “‘Annals of the Poor’: The Lincoln Genealogy”
5:00 PM Cash Bar in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom Foyer
6:00 PM Buffet Dinner in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom
Reading of the Gettysburg Address by Graham Sibley
Presentation of Lincoln Forum Awards
Doris Kearns Goodwin and Beth Laski in conversation with Harold Holzer, with highlights from their History Channel film, Abraham Lincoln