02 February 2009

Additional Resources

Books and Internet Resources

This article is excerpted from Abraham Lincoln: A Legacy of Freedom, published by the Bureau of International Information Programs. View the entire book (PDF, 5.48 MB).

Additional Resources

BOOKS

Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Cozzens, Peter. Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign. Chapel Hill, NCNC : University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Donald, David H., and Harold Holzer. Lincoln in The Times: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, as Originally Reported in the New York Times. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.

Donald, David H. Lincoln. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Ferguson, Andrew. Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press; distributed by Publishers Group West, 2007.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

Herndon, William H., and Jesse W. Weik. Herndon’s Lincoln; edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis. Galesburg, IL: Knox College Lincoln Studies Center; Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. (Published in association with the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.)

Holzer, Harold and Sara V. Gabbard, eds. Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. (Published in conjunction with the Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana.)

Holzer, Harold. Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008.

Holzer, Harold. Lincoln Revisited: New Insights From the Lincoln Forum; edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel. New York: Fordham University, 2007. (Essays originally delivered as Lincoln Forum lectures between 2003 and 2005.)

Jones, Howard. Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Lincoln, Abraham. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates; edited by Rodney O. Davis and Douglas L. Wilson. Urbana, IL: Knox College Lincoln Studies Center, University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Lincoln, Abraham. Selected Speeches and Writings. 1st Vintage Books, Library of America ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.

[The texts are selected from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy Basler (1953), and its supplement (1974), and annotated by Don E. Fehrenbacher.]

Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, c1982.

White, Ronald C. The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words. New York: Random House, 2005.

Wilson, Douglas L. Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

YOUNG ADULT

Herbert, Janis. Abraham Lincoln for Kids: His Life and Times With 21 Activities. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2007.

Myer, Cassie. Abraham Lincoln. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2008.

Pascal, Janet B. Who Was Abraham Lincoln? New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 2008.

Trumbauer, Lisa. Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Chicago, IL: Heinemann Library, 2008.

INTERNET RESOURCES

GOVERNMENT

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
http://www.lincolnbicentennial.gov

Abraham Lincoln Papers
Library of Congress
The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20,000 documents, organized into three “General Correspondence” series that include incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material. Most of the 20,000 items are from the 1850s through Lincoln’s presidential years, 1860-1965. The collection encompasses approximately 61,000 images and 10,000 transcriptions.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
The Presidential Library is a public, non-circulating research library specializing in Abraham Lincoln and Illinois history. Collections include books, pamphlets, maps, and periodicals; photographs, films, tapes, and broadsides; manuscripts; and Illinois newspapers on microfilm. The library contains extensive resources on the Civil War and many publications useful for genealogical research, as well as the renowned Henry Horner Lincoln collection.
http://www.alpl.org/home.html

ACADEMIC AND PRIVATE

Abraham Lincoln Association
The Abraham Lincoln Association has made significant contributions to keeping alive his unique story and ideals. Those contributions have taken many forms, including the publication of scholarly works, providing teaching materials to students, and providing preservation assistance for Lincoln sites.
http://www.abrahamlincolnassociation.org/

Abraham Lincoln Book Shop
Established in 1938, the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop serves the needs of collectors and scholars, professional historians and independent writers, dedicated first edition hunters, and casual history enthusiasts.
http://www.alincolnbookshop.com/html/bibliographies.htm

Lincoln Institute
The Lincoln Institute concentrates on providing support and assistance to scholars and groups involved in the study of the life of America’s 16th president and the impact he had on the preservation of the Union, the emancipation of black slaves, and the development of democratic principles that have found worldwide application.
http://www.abrahamlincoln.org

Miller Center of Public Affairs: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
University of Virginia
The Miller Center of Public Affairs is a national nonpartisan center to research, reflect, and report on American government, with special attention to the central role and history of the presidency.
http://millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident/Lincoln

Northern Illinois University
Lincoln Digitalization Project
Before Abraham Lincoln became the nation’s chief executive, he led a fascinating life that sheds considerable light upon significant themes in American history. This World Wide Web site presents materials from Lincoln’s Illinois years (1830-1861), supplemented by resources from Illinois’ early years of statehood (1818-1829). The collection provides a record of Lincoln’s early career and helps readers fix his experiences within Lincoln’s social and political milieu.
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu

Presidential Papers of Abraham Lincoln
A collaborative project of the Abraham Lincoln Association, the Lincoln Studies Center, the Library of Congress, the Lehrman Institute, and the Lincoln Institute, this effort supplements and coordinates a number of other efforts to create an authoritative, comprehensive, on-line version of Lincoln’s words and his incoming correspondence.
http://www.presidentialpapersofabrahamlincolnonline.org/index2.html