THE 2025 LINCOLN FORUM SYMPOSIUM AT HILDENE

Lincoln and his Family

FRIDAY, APRIL 25

(At the Equinox Hotel)

4:00 PM          Registration begins outside the Colonnade Ballroom

5:30 PM          Cash Bar, Colonnade Ballroom

6:00 PM          Dinner, Colonnade Ballroom

                        Welcome: Harold Holzer, Chairman

                        Jason Emerson, Robert T. Lincoln and his Parents

SATURDAY, APRIL 26

                        Breakfast on your own

                                                (Gather at Lincoln Hall, Hildene)

9 AM               Welcome: Bob Hallenbeck, Chair, Hildene Board of Trustees

9:30 AM        Jonathan W. White, Lincoln’s Boyhood Family: Preparation for Greatness

10:30 AM        Catherine Clinton, The Unsinkable Mary Lincoln

11:30 AM        Michelle Krowl, Robert and the Robert Lincoln Papers     

12:30 PM        Lunch

1:00 PM          Panel: Jason Emerson, Callie Hawkins, Christian McWhirter, Samuel Wheeler, and Jacob K.

                        Friefeld, moderator: The Lincoln Children: From Springfield to Hildene

2 PM               Brian Keefe, The Hildene Story

                        Followed by concurrent tours of the Lincolns’ home, grounds, and the 1903 Pullman railcar Sunbeam

4:30 PM          Break

                        (Return to Hildene)

6:00 PM        Cash Bar, Lincoln Hall

6:30 PM        Dinner

                        Harold Holzer, The Lincoln Family Album: Remembering the Lincolns Through the Photos they Treasured

SUNDAY, APRIL 27

9:00 AM       Equinox Hotel, Rockwell Ballroom (Lower Level)

                        Panel: The Lincoln Family Reconsidered, with all speakers, and Hon. Frank J. Williams, Moderator

The Lincoln Forum would like to thank its partners and supporters for making this event possible.

HILDENE, THE LINCOLN FAMILY HOME

JEAN & BILL SOMAN

DAVID LAWRENCE

MICHELLE KROWL

FRANK & VIRGINIA WILLIAMS

HAROLD & EDITH HOLZER