Abraham Lincoln Papers

Abraham Lincoln Papers: Selected Bibliography


Bibliographies and Reference Works | Documentary Editions | Biographies and Essays | The Early Years | The 1850s | The Presidential Years and Emancipation | Mary Todd Lincoln

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

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Documentary Editions

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

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Biographies and Essays

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

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The Early Years

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

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The 1850s

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

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The Presidential Years and Emancipation

Baringer, William E. A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect. Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945.
LC Call Number: E457.4 .B245

Bruce, Robert V., et al. Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures. Edited by Garbor S. Boritt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
LC Call Number: E457 .L76 1992

Davis, William C. Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation. New York: Free Press, 1999.
LC Call Number: E457.2 .D33 1999

Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era. New York: Knopf, 1956.
LC Call Number: E457.8 .D69

Franklin, John Hope. The Emancipation Proclamation. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1995.
LC Call Number: E453 .F8 1995

Gienapp, William E. "Abraham Lincoln and the Border States." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 13 (1992): 13-46.
LC Call Number: E457.8 .F66 1992

Hendrick, Burton Jesse. Lincoln's War Cabinet. 1946. Reprint, Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1965.
LC Call Number: E456 .H4 1965

Johannsen, Robert W. Lincoln, the South and Slavery: The Political Dimension. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991.
LC Call Number: E415.7 .J685 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.
LC Call Number: E469 .J56 1999

McPherson, James M. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
LC Call Number: E457.2 .M4758 1991

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.
LC Call Number: E475.55 .L7386

Neely, Mark E., Jr. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
LC Call Number: E457.2 .N46 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.
LC Call Number: E 457 .N49 1993

Nichols, David A. Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1978.
LC Call Number: E457.2 .N6

Paludan, Phillip S. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.
LC Call Number: E457 .P18 1994

Potter, David. Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis. 1942. New Edition, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.
LC Call Number: E440.5 .P856 1995

Randall, James G. Lincoln the President. Last Full Measure. Introduction by Richard N. Current. 1945. Reprint, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
LC Call Number: E457 .R212 2000

Ringle, Dennis J. Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press,1998.
LC Call Number: V736 .R55 1998

Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. 4 vols. New York: Harcourt, Brace &Co., 1939.
LC Call Number: E457.4 .S36

Simpson, Brooks D. The Reconstruction Presidents. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
LC Call Number: E668 .S58 1998

Tap, Bruce. Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
LC Call Number: E470 .T2 1998

Trefousse, Hans L. Lincoln's Decision for Emancipation. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975.
LC Call Number: E453 .T79

Vorenberg, Michael. "Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Black Colonization." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 14 (Summer 1993): 23-45.
LC Call Number: E457.8 .F66 1993

Waugh, John C. Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency. New York: Crown Publishers, 1997.
LC Call Number: E458.4 .W38 1997

Wills, Garry. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
LC Call Number: E475.55 .W54 1992

Wright, John S. Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1970.
LC Call Number: E457.4 .W73

Zornow, William F. Lincoln & the Party Divided. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954.
LC Call Number: E458.4 .Z6

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Mary Todd Lincoln

Baker, Jean H. Mary Todd Lincoln. New York: Norton, 1987.
LC Call Number: E457.25 .L55 B35 1987

Randall, Ruth Painter. Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage. Little, Brown, 1953.
LC Call Number: E457.25 .R3

Turner, Justin G., and Linda Levitt Turner. Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.
LC Call Number: E457.25 .T87 1972


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