The Abraham Lincoln Page

( 1809-1865 )

Major Works
Don E. Fehrenbacher selected and annotated the two Lincoln volumes in the Library of America, Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858 and Speeches and Writings, 1858-1865, 1989. The basis of these volumes is The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Roy P. Basler and others. Rutgers, 1953.
" House Divided " Speech ( 1858 ).
" Lincoln-Douglas Debates " ( 1858 ). Each of the debates opens with a speech by one of the debaters and a reply from the other and ends with a rejoinder from the first speaker. Judge Douglas was the first speaker during the first , third, fifth, and seventh debates. The two opening speeches were limited to one and one-half hours, while the rejoinder was limited to one-half hour.
" Address at Cooper Institute " ( 1860 ). Address against slavery for which he takes as his text a statement from an earlier speech by Douglas.
" First Inaugural " ( March 4, 1861 ).
" The Emancipation Proclamation " ( January 1, 1863 ).
" Gettysburg Address " ( November 19, 1863 ).
Letter to Mrs Bixby ( November 21, 1864 ).
" Second Inaugural " ( March 4, 1865 ).

About Lincoln
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln. Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr, Philip B. Kunhardt, III, Peter W. Kunhardt, Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography. Knopf, 1992.
Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln. Harcourt, Brace, 1926, 1939. Sandburg abridged his six-volume Lincoln in 1954>. Many will find the one-volume work more to their liking.
Abraham Lincoln Online
A Lincoln Page
Abraham Lincoln Research Site
Biographical Sketch

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