Coinciding with the public opening of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, this conference will present a broad range of informed Lincoln scholarship to the general public. A modest conference registration fee will include two lunches and the ALA breakfast.

SOLD OUT - Sunday April 17 - SOLD OUT

9:00am to 10:30am Lincoln the Self-Made Man

Moderator:	Rodney O. Davis, Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College
Speakers:	Daniel Walker Howe, University of California at Los Angeles
	Stewart Winger, Lawrence Technological University

10:30am to 10:45am Break

10:45am to 12:15pm The Intimate Lincoln

Moderator:	Wendy Venet, Georgia State University
Speakers:	Michael Chesson, University of Massachusetts
	Jean Baker, Goucher College

12:30pm to 1:45pm Luncheon Speaker: Michael Kauffman, author American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies

2:00pm to 3:30pm Lincoln, Slavery, and Race

Moderator:	Frank J. Williams, Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Speakers:	Graham Peck, St. Xavier University
	Allen Guelzo, Gettysburg College

3:30pm to 3:45pm Break

3:45pm to 5:00pm Keynote Address: David Gergen, Presidential Advisor (tentative)

SOLD OUT - Monday April 18 - SOLD OUT

7:30am to 8:30am Abraham Lincoln Association Breakfast Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Atrium

9:00am to 10:30am Lincoln at War

Moderator:	Phillip S. Paludan, University of Illinois at Springfield
Speakers:	Jennifer Weber, Princeton University
	Silvana Siddali, St. Louis University

10:30am to 10:45am Break

10:45am to 12:15pm The Great Communicator

Moderator:	Douglas L. Wilson, Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College
Speakers:	Richard Carwardine, Oxford University
	Ronald White, Huntington Library

12:30pm to 1:45pm Lunch
Luncheon Speaker: Louise Taper, "Collecting Lincoln"

2:00pm to 3:30pm Lincoln and Presidential Leadership

Moderator:	Ronald Rietveld, California State University at Fullerton
Speakers:	Mark E. Neely, Jr., Penn State University
	Roger D. Bridges, Abraham Lincoln Association

3:30pm to 3:45pm Break

3:45pm to 5:00pm Summing Up: Three Generations of Lincoln Scholarship

Moderator:	Brian Lamb, C-SPAN
Panel:	David Herbert Donald, Harvard University
	Harold Holzer, Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College