Lincoln Forum XXIX:
Lincoln in Fact and Fiction
Exact times subject to change.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16
3:00 PM Registration Begins: Wyndham Lobby
5:00 PM Cash Bar in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom Foyer
6:00 PM Buffet Dinner in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom
Introduction of Scholarship Winners: Clark Zimmerman and Tom Horrocks
Lincoln Presidential Foundation Lecture: Gary W. Gallagher and Joan Waugh: “Lincoln’s Generals: A Reassessment"
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17
6:30 AM Breakfast Buffet in ballroom foyer (until 8:30 AM)
9:00 AM Moderator—Session 1: Jonathan W. White
Harold Holzer, “Lincoln and Immigration"
10:00 AM Alan Taylor, “North American Civil Wars: Canada, Mexico, and the United States"
11:00 AM Leonne M. Hudson, “Along the Funeral Train Route: African Americans React to Lincoln’s Death”
12:15 PM Buffet Lunch in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom
2:00 PM Moderator—Session 2: Michelle A. Krowl
William C. Davis and Sue Bell, “Gabriel and Nannie Wharton: A Confederate Love Story”
3:00 PM Panel: “Abraham Lincoln for Children”: Jan Jacobi, Karen B. Winnick, Jonathan W. White, and Michelle A. Krowl, moderator
4:00 PM All-author Book Signing, Wyndham Lobby
5:30 PM Cash Bar in Wyndham Presidential Foyer
6:30 PM Buffet Dinner in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom
Allen C. Guelzo, “Lincoln and Democracy”
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18
6:30 AM Breakfast Buffet in ballroom Foyer (until 8:30 AM)
7:30 AM Board of Advisors Annual Meeting
9:15 AM State of the Forum / Election of Officers for 2023-2024
Platt Family Essay Contest—Don McCue
Moderator—Session 3: Edna Greene Medford
9:30 AM Jon Grinspan, “The Wide Awakes”
10:30 AM Nigel Hamilton, “The War of the Presidents: Lincoln vs. Davis”
11:30 AM Panel: “Why They Fought,” with Susannah J. Ural, Edna Greene Medford, Gary W. Gallagher, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams, moderator
12:45 PM Buffet Lunch in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom
2:00 PM First Time Attendees’ Battlefield Tour with Carol Reardon
Breakout Sessions:
Uncovering the Secrets of Civil War Con Artists: William C. Davis and Frank W. Garmon Jr.
Living History: The Reenactors: Robert Brugler, David Walker, Holly Ray, and Jon Willen
Inside Lincoln’s Cabinet: Mark Neels, Walter Stahr, and Craig Symonds
Slave Trading during the Civil War: Jonathan W. White and Robert Colby
The Black Wartime Experience: Edna Greene Medford, Brian Mitchell, Leonne Hudson, and Michelle A. Krowl
Abraham Lincoln and Sherlock Holmes: Perspectives from a Historian and a Novelist: Tom Horrocks and J. Lawrence Matthews
Lincoln in Indiana: William Bartelt, Scott Schroeder, and Joshua Claybourn
5:00 PM Cash Bar in the Wyndham Presidential Forum
6:00 PM Buffet Dinner in the Wyndham Presidential Ballroom
The Art of Historical Fiction: Jeff Shaara in conversation with Jake Boritt
The Gettysburg Choral Society performs the Gettysburg Address