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Bibliographies and Reference Works
Angle, Paul M. A Shelf of Lincoln Books: A Critical Selective Bibliography of Lincolniana. 1946. Reprint, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972.
LC Call Number: Z8505 .A6 1972
Miers, Earl S., ed. Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 1809-1865. 3 vols. Washington, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960.
LC Call Number: E457 .U66
Monaghan, Jay. Lincoln Bibliography, 1839-1939. 2 vols. Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1945.
LC Call Number: F536 .I25 vol. 31-32
Neely, Mark E., Jr. Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia. 10 vols. 1982. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1984.
LC Call Number: E457 .N48
Basler, Roy P., ed. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. 8 vols. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953.
LC Call Number: E457.91 1953
-----------------, and Christian Basler, eds. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Second Supplement, 1845-1865. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
LC Call Number: E457.91 1953 Suppl. 2
Benner, Martha L., and Cullom Davis, eds. The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: The Complete Documentary Edition. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. DVD-ROM
Burlingame, Michael, and John R. Turner Ettlinger, eds. Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.
LC Call Number: E664 .H41 A3 1997
Burlingame, Michael, ed. With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
Dennett, Tyler, ed. Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939.
LC Call Number: E664 .H41 H42
Fehrenbacher, Don E. The Changing Image of Lincoln in American Historiography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
LC Call Number: E457.2 .F4
--------------------------, ed. Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1858: Speeches, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1989.
LC Call Number: E457.92 1989
-------------------------- and Virginia Fehrenbacher, eds. Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
LC Call Number: E457.99 .R43 1996
Hertz, Emanuel, ed. The Hidden Lincoln: From the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon. New York: Viking Press, 1938.
LC Call Number: E457 .H58s
Holzer, Harold, ed. Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1993.
LC Call Number: E457.962 1993
Mearns, David C., ed. The Lincoln Papers. 2 vols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1948.
LC Call Number: E457.92 1948
Segal, Charles M., ed. Conversations with Lincoln. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1961.
LC Call Number: E457.15 .L5
Wilson, Douglas L., and Rodney O. Davis, eds. Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
LC Call Number: E457 .H59 1998
Zall, Paul M., ed. Lincoln on Lincoln. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1999.
LC Call Number: E457 .L7375 1999
Angle, Paul M., ed. The Lincoln Reader. 1947. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1990.
LC Call Number: E457 .L745 1990
Beveridge, Albert J. Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928.
LC Call Number: E457.3 .B576 1928
Burlingame, Michael. The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln. University of Illinois Press, 1994.
LC Call Number: E457.2 .B97 1994
-------------------------, ed. An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.
LC Call Number: E457.2 .N67 1996
Cox, Lawanda. Lincoln and Black Freedom. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981.
LC Call Number: E457.2 .C84
Current, Richard N. The Lincoln Nobody Knows. 1958. Reprint, New York: Hill and Wang, 1963.
LC Call Number: E457 .C96 1963
-------------------------, ed. The Political Thought of Abraham Lincoln. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1967]
LC Call Number: E457.92 1967b
Davis, Cullom, ed. The Public and the Private Lincoln: Contemporary Perspectives. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1979.
LC Call Number: E457.8 .P97
Diggins, John P. On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000. LC Call Number: E175.9 .D54 2000
Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
LC Call Number: E457 .D66 1995
---------------------------. Lincoln's Herndon: A Biography. 1948. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1988.
LC Call Number: E457.4 .H558 D66 1988
Fehrenbacher, Don E., ed. Lincoln in Text and Context: Collected Essays. Stanford,Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987.
LC Call Number: E457.8 .FF28 1987
Herndon, William H., and Jesse W. Weik. Herndon's Life of Lincoln: The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln as Originally Written by William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik. Edited by Paul M. Angle. New Introduction by Henry Steele Commager. 1930. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press,1983.
LC Call Number: E457 .H575 1983
Howells, William Dean. Life of Abraham Lincoln; This Campaign Biography Corrected by the Hand of Abraham Lincoln in the Summer of 1860 Is Reproduced Here with Careful Attention to the Appearance of the Original Volume. Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln Association,
1938.
LC Call Number: E457 .H86
Kunhardt, Philip B., Jr., et al. Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
LC Call Number: E457 .K94 1992
Lamon, Ward Hill. The Life of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His Inauguration as President. 1872. Reprint with an introduction to the Bison Books edition by Rodney O. Davis, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
LC Call Number: E457.3 .L36 1999
Luthin, Reinhard H. The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Complete One Volume History of His Life and Times. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1960.
LC Call Number: E456 .L8
Nevins, Allan. The Emergence of Lincoln. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950.
LC Call Number: E415.7 .N38
Nicolay, John G., and John Hay. Abraham Lincoln: A History. 10 vols. 1890. Reprint, New York: The Century Company, 1917.
LC Call Number: E457 .N654
--------------------------------------. Abraham Lincoln: A History. Abridged and edited by Paul M. Angle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.
LC Call Number: E457 .N658
Oates, Stephen B. With Malice toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994.
LC Call Number: E457 .O17 1994
Peterson, Merrill D. Lincoln in American Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
LC Call Number: E457.2 .P84 1994
Quarles, Benjamin. Lincoln and the Negro. 1962. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1991.
LC Call Number: E457.2 Q3 1991
Schwartz, Thomas F., ed. For a Vast Future Also: Essays from the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. New York: Fordham University Press, 1999.
LC Call Number: E457.8 .F66 1999
Thomas, Benjamin. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography. 1952. Reprint, New York: Modern Library, 1968.
LC Call Number: E457 .T427 1968
-----------------------. Portrait for Posterity: Lincoln and His Biographers. 1947. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
LC Call Number: E457 .T43 1972
Thomas, John L., ed. Abraham Lincoln and the American Political Tradition. Amherst.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.
LC Call Number: E457.8 .A239 1986
Weik, Jesse K. The Real Lincoln: A Portrait. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923.
LC Call Number: E457 .W4 1923
Wolf, William J. The Almost Chosen People: A Study of the Religion of Abraham Lincoln. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1959.
LC Call Number: E457.2 .W853
Zall, P. M. Abe Lincoln Laughing: Humorous Anecdotes from Original Sources by and about Abraham Lincoln. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995.
LC Call Number: E457.15 .A13 1995
Angle, Paul M. "Here I Have Lived": A History of Lincoln's Springfield, 1821-1865. 1950. New Edition, Chicago: Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 1971.
LC Call Number: E549 .S7 1971
Baringer, William E. Lincoln's Vandalia: A Pioneer Portrait. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1949.
LC Call Number: E457.35 .B225
Browne, Francis Fisher. The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by John Y. Simon. 1886. New Edition, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
LC Call Number: E457 .B88 1995
Duff, John J. Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Lawyer. New York: Rinehart & Co., 1960.
LC Call Number: E457.2 .D8
Coleman, Charles H. Abraham Lincoln and Coles County, Illinois. New Brunswick, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1955.
LC Call Number: E457.64 .C6
Davis, Cullom. Abraham Lincoln and the Golden Age of American Law. Racine, Wis.: Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1994.
LC Call Number: E457.2 .D27 1994
Hill, Frederick Trevor. Lincoln the Lawyer. 1906. Reprint, Littleton, Colo.: F. B. Rothman, 1986.
LC Call Number: KF368 .L52 H55 1986
Hurt, James. Writing Illinois: The Prairie, Lincoln, and Chicago. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
LC Call Number: PS283 .I3 H87 1992
Pratt, Harry E. "Lincoln in the Black Hawk War." Bulletin of the Abraham Lincoln Association 54 (Dec. 1938): 3-13.
LC Call Number: E457.7 .A18
Riddle, Donald W. Congressman Abraham Lincoln. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,1957.
LC Call Number: E457.4 .R5
Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years. 1966. One Volume Edition, New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1974.
LC Call Number: E457 .S215 1974
Schwartz, Thomas F. "The Springfield Lyceums and Lincoln's 1838 Speech." Illinois Historical Journal 83 (1990): 45-49.
LC Call Number: F536 .I18
Silbey, Joel H. "'Always a Whig in Politics': The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln." Papers of the Abraham Lincoln Association 8 (1986): 21-42.
LC Call Number: E457.1 .A27a
Simon, Paul. Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness: The Illinois Legislative Years. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971.
LC Call Number: E457.35 .S57 1971
Tarbell, Ida M. The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln. 1896. Reprint with a new introduction by Paul M. Angle, South Brunswick: A. S. Barnes, 1974.
LC Call Number: E457.3 T17 1974
Thomas, Benjamin P. Lincoln's New Salem. 1954. Reprint, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.
LC Call Number: E457.35 .T47 1987
-------------------------. "Lincoln the Postmaster." Bulletin of the Abraham Lincoln Association 31 (June 1933): 1-9.
LC Call Number: E457.7 .A18
Walsh, John Evangelist. The Shadows Rise: Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
LC Call Number: E457.35 .W185 1993
Warren, Louis A. Lincoln's Parentage and Childhood; A History of the Kentucky Lincolns Supported by Documentary Evidence. New York: Century Company, 1926.
LC Call Number: E457.32 .W283
--------------------. Lincoln's Youth: Indiana Years, Seven to Twenty-One, 1816-1830. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1991.
LC Call Number: E457.32 .W284 1991
Wilson, Douglas L. Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
LC Call Number: E457.35 .W547 1998
-----------------------, ed. Lincoln before Washington: New Perspectives on the Illinois Years. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
LC Call Number: E457.35 .W55 1997
Woldman, Albert A. Lawyer Lincoln. 1936. Reprint, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1994.
LC Call Number: E457.2 .W85
Angle, Paul M., ed. Created Equal? The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858. 1958. Midway Reprint Edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
LC Call Number: E457.4 .L77 1985
Fehrenbacher, Don E. Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s. Stanford, Calif.:Stanford University Press, 1962.
LC Call Number: E459.3 .F4
Holzer, Harold, ed. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993.
LC Call Number: E457.4 .L776 1993
Jaffa, Harry V., and Robert W. Johannsen, eds. In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1959.
LC Call Number: E457.4 .L773
Mearns, David C., ed. The Illinois Political Campaign of 1858; a Facsimile of the Printer's Copy of His Debates with Senator Stephen Arnold Douglas as Edited and Prepared for Press by Abraham Lincoln. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1958.
LC Call Number: E457.4 .L772
Pinsker, Matthew. "Senator Abraham Lincoln." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 14 (Summer 1993): 1-21.
LC Call Number: E457.8 .F66 1993
Wilson, Douglas L. "The Unfinished Texts of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 15 (Winter 1994): 70-84.
LC Call Number: E457.8 .F66 1994
Zarefsky, David. Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
LC Call Number: E457.4 .ZZ29 1990
The Presidential Years and Emancipation
Baringer, William E. A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect. Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945.
Bruce, Robert V., et al. Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures. Edited by Garbor S. Boritt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Davis, William C. Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation. New York: Free Press, 1999.
Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era. New York: Knopf, 1956.
Franklin, John Hope. The Emancipation Proclamation. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1995.
Gienapp, William E. "Abraham Lincoln and the Border States." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 13 (1992): 13-46.
Hendrick, Burton Jesse. Lincoln's War Cabinet. 1946. Reprint, Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1965.
Johannsen, Robert W. Lincoln, the South and Slavery: The Political Dimension. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991.
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.
McPherson, James M. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Mearns, David C., and Lloyd A. Dunlap, eds. Long Remembered: Facsimiles of the Five Versions of the Gettysburg Address in the Handwriting of Abraham Lincoln. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1963.
Neely, Mark E., Jr. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
----------------------. The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Society, 1993.
Nichols, David A. Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1978.
Paludan, Phillip S. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.
Potter, David. Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis. 1942. New Edition, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.
Randall, James G. Lincoln the President. Last Full Measure. Introduction by Richard N. Current. 1945. Reprint, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Ringle, Dennis J. Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press,1998.
Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. 4 vols. New York: Harcourt, Brace &Co., 1939.
Simpson, Brooks D. The Reconstruction Presidents. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Tap, Bruce. Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Trefousse, Hans L. Lincoln's Decision for Emancipation. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975. Vorenberg, Michael. "Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Black Colonization." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 14 (Summer 1993): 23-45.
Waugh, John C. Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency. New York: Crown Publishers, 1997.
Wills, Garry. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Wright, John S. Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1970.
Zornow, William F. Lincoln & the Party Divided. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954.
Baker, Jean H. Mary Todd Lincoln. New York: Norton, 1987.
Randall, Ruth Painter. Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage. Little, Brown, 1953.
Turner, Justin G., and Linda Levitt Turner. Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.
LC Call Number: E457.4 .B245
LC Call Number: E457 .L76 1992
LC Call Number: E457.2 .D33 1999
LC Call Number: E457.8 .D69
LC Call Number: E453 .F8 1995
LC Call Number: E457.8 .F66 1992
LC Call Number: E456 .H4 1965
LC Call Number: E415.7 .J685 1991
LC Call Number: E469 .J56 1999
LC Call Number: E457.2 .M4758 1991
LC Call Number: E475.55 .L7386
LC Call Number: E457.2 .N46 1991
LC Call Number: E 457 .N49 1993
LC Call Number: E457.2 .N6
LC Call Number: E457 .P18 1994
LC Call Number: E440.5 .P856 1995
LC Call Number: E457 .R212 2000
LC Call Number: V736 .R55 1998
LC Call Number: E457.4 .S36
LC Call Number: E668 .S58 1998
LC Call Number: E470 .T2 1998
LC Call Number: E453 .T79
LC Call Number: E457.8 .F66 1993
LC Call Number: E458.4 .W38 1997
LC Call Number: E475.55 .W54 1992
LC Call Number: E457.4 .W73
LC Call Number: E458.4 .Z6
LC Call Number: E457.25 .L55 B35 1987
LC Call Number: E457.25 .R3
LC Call Number: E457.25 .T87 1972
Abraham Lincoln Papers