Lincoln Forum XXX

Beginning with a Special 30th Anniversary Prequel

“Lincoln on Camera”

Featuring a visit to the new Adams County Historical Society
Beyond the Battle Museum with lectures, screenings, and dinner.

Saturday, November 15

Location: Beyond the Battle Museum, 625 Biglerville Road

2:00 PM – Welcome

  • Andrew Dalton, Museum Director

  • Jonathan W. White, Forum Vice Chairman

2:15 – 3:15 PM
“Is that You, Abe? Finding Lincoln in Historical Photographs”
 Christopher Oakley and Mark Pohlad

3:30 – 5:00 PM
Film Screening: The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1956)
Starring Raymond Massey, Lillian Gish, Jack Lemmon, and Charles Laughton
Introduction by Harold Holzer and commentary by Richard Sloan

5:00 PM – Reception
6:00 PM – Buffet Dinner
6:45 PM – Screening: Excerpts from The Heart of Lincoln (1922)
Rediscovered silent film by Francis Ford, with commentary by Mark Rheinhardt

Sunday Morning, November 16

Location: Wyndham Gettysburg

9:00 AM – Group Breakfast and Panel Discussion
“Lincoln on eBay: Finding the Unknown Lincoln in Unexpected Places”
Jonathan White and William J. Griffing

The 30th Annual Symposium

“The Life and Martyrdom of Abraham Lincoln”

Sunday, November 16

1:00 PM – Registration Opens (Wyndham Lobby)
5:00 PM – Cash Bar (Wyndham Presidential Ballroom Foyer)
6:00 PM – Buffet Dinner (Wyndham Presidential Ballroom)

  • Welcome to Forum XXX: Harold Holzer, Chairman

  • Scholarship Winner Introductions: Clark Zimmerman and Thomas A. Horrocks

  • Lincoln Presidential Foundation Lecture:
    Greetings by Erin Carlson Mast

  • Keynote Speakers: Thomas Mallon and Martha Hodes
    “Lincoln’s Death in Myth and Memory, Fact and Fiction”: A 160th Anniversary Conversation

Monday, November 17

6:30 – 8:30 AM – Breakfast Buffet (Ballroom Foyer)

Session 1 Moderator: Jonathan White

9:00 AM – Speaker: Michael Vorenberg
“Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the War”

10:00 AM – Speaker: Saladin Ambar
“Murder on the Mississippi: The Formation of Lincoln’s Political Religion”

11:00 AM – Speaker: James Oakes
“Was the Emancipation Proclamation Illegal?”

12:00 PM – Buffet Lunch (Presidential Ballroom)

Session 2 Moderator: Edna Greene Medford

2:00 PM – Speakers: Lucas E. Morel and Jonathan White
“What Frederick Douglass Said About Lincoln”

3:00 PM – Panel: “The Peacemakers: Lincoln’s Last Council of War”

  • Panelists: Anne Marshall, John F. Marszalek, Craig L. Symonds, Susannah J. Ural, Frank J. Williams, with introductory comments by Harold Holzer

4:00 PM – All-Author Book Signing (Wyndham Lobby)

5:30 PM – Cash Bar (Wyndham Presidential Foyer)
6:30 PM – Buffet Dinner

  • Lincoln Forum Awards Presentation

  • Speaker: Richard Carwardine
    “Righteous Strife: Lincoln and Union Nationalists in the Crucible of War”

Tuesday, November 18

6:30 – 8:30 AM – Breakfast Buffet (Ballroom Foyer)
7:30 AM – Board of Advisors Annual Meeting

9:15 AM – State of the Forum & Election of Officers
Session 3 Moderator: Tom Horrocks

9:30 AM – Speaker: Cecily N. Zander
“Lincoln’s Army Under Fire”

10:30 AM – Speaker: Julian Sher
“The North Star: Canada and the Confederate Plots Against Lincoln”

11:30 AM – Panel: “The Voice of the People: Lincoln and Congress”

  • Panelists: Jeffrey Boutwell, Fergus Bordewich, Stephen Puleo, Cecily Zander, Michelle Krowl, Moderator

12:45 PM – Buffet Lunch (Presidential Ballroom)

2:00 PM – First-Time Attendees’ Battlefield Tour
Tour Guide: Carol Reardon

Breakout Sessions

  • Cooking with the Chief and the Chef
    Hon. Frank J. Williams and Chef Trevor Shearer

  • Lincoln Forgeries We Have Known and Loved
    Daniel Weinberg and John Lupton

  • Evergreen Cemetery for Children: Animals Tell the Story of Gettysburg
    Christopher Oakley and Michelle Krowl

  • Why Was Lincoln Murdered?
    Terry Alford and Edward Steers Jr.

  • Countdown to Appomattox
    Michael Vorenberg and Anne Marshall

  • Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in Fact and Fiction
    Reg Ankrom, Jan Jacobi, and Scott Schroeder

  • Lincoln, the Lawyer: How His Legal Career Created America's Greatest President
    Roger Billings and Dennis Curran

5:00 PM – Cash Bar (Wyndham Presidential Forum)
6:00 PM – Buffet Dinner (Presidential Ballroom)

Closing Speaker: Stephen Lang
“Performances from Lincoln’s Other ‘Good Book’”