Lincoln Forum to Host “Zoom Symposium” in November, Then Return to Gettysburg For In-Person Forum in May 2021
The Lincoln Forum, compelled to postpone its 25th annual sym posium at Gettysburg because of the COVID-19 pandemic, has announced it will host a oneday, live symposium on Zoom Saturday, November 14, from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Eastern Time. The all-star lineup will include best-selling historian H.
W. Brands discussing his forthcoming (October) joint biogra-
phy of John Brown and Abraham Lincoln, The Zealot and the Emancipator; writer Ted Widmer
inaugural journey, Lincoln on t Verge, in a conversation with
ing for us to interrupt an in-p son tradition that dates back t 1995,” commented Chairman
Forum family to get together th fall to hear extraordinary hist
other and to the Lincoln field, in the bargain protect our heal and safety while the COVID crisis remains unresolved. Looking
at the bright side, we are hopi this free event will attract mo participants, and more new members, than ever.” Holzer added that the Forum
CWN would host a live springtime event May 21-23, 2021, at the Wyndham Hotel in Gettysburg, and promised it would feature a delayed celebration of the organization’s silver anniversary. The 2020 Zoom Forum will also feature a panel hosted and moderated by Forum Vice Chairman Jonathan W. White on “How Should We Now Teach Lincoln and the Civil War?” Joining Professor White, who teaches at Christopher Newport University, will be: prolific author William C. “Jack” Davis, who taught at Virginia Tech; the University of Virginia’s John L. Nau III Professor of Civil War history Caroline E. Janney; Oberlin College Assistant Professor of History and American Studies Tamika Nunley; and Professor Emeritus Craig L. Symonds of the U.S. Naval Academy, who taught Civil War courses at Annapolis and the U.S. Naval War College for more than 40 years. Said Professor White: “As our culture begins to reflect huge The deadline for submissions/advertising is the changes in how we regard history and memory, the time is right to ask several generations of college instructors how most effectively to teach the Civil War to younger DAVIS & MELTON 10
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