Abraham Lincoln
| Abraham Lincoln Online | An immense array of links to useful material is organized under broad headings. Among headings are "News & Events" (for example exhibits, historic site events, new books), "Books" (includes author and book links and audio-visual titles), "Speeches" (includes speeches, quotes, topical groupings, and comment on Lincoln as a speaker), "Places" (the full range of places associated with Lincoln), "Resources" (associations, books, libraries and museums, images, actors, and publications), "Students" (broad topical groupings cover Lincoln in his own words, writings about him, biography, and classroom resources), and "Discussion" (essentially a bulletin board). |
Abraham Lincoln Research Site: Discovering the Man, The President |
Created and maintained by a retired high school history teacher. Here one will find an extensive collection of anecdotes and stories, accounts of specific events, and a link to a large topically organized collection of pertinent Websites. Among these links are resources for educators and links to specific Lincoln speeches. |
| The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission | http://www.lincolnbicentennial.gov/learn-new.html With this site one can link "to other Web sites that chronicle Lincoln 's life-from boyhood to his presidency. Select the Timeline to learn more about important dates in Lincoln 's life, or select Speeches and read his Gettysburg address . . . Visit the Gallery and view images of Lincoln, the places and people of antebellum and civil war-era U.S." |
The Lincoln Institute |
http://www.abrahamlincoln.org/ The Institute is funded by the Lehrman Institute. Lewis Gilder co-founded the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History http://www.gilderlehrman.org/ with Richard Gilder. "The Lincoln Institute promotes the development and dissemination of printed materials, broadcast products, conferences and Internet resources on Mr. Lincoln. It encourages work in which scholars cooperate with each other in development of historical materials and the transcription of primary sources for both physical and virtual display." It hosts the following websites : Mr. Lincoln's White House, Mr. Lincoln and Freedom, Mr. Lincoln and the Founders, Mr. Lincoln and Friends , and Mr. Lincoln and New York . The documented essays that accompany each of these well-designed and attractive sites, which also feature well-chosen images, are useful. |
The Time of the Lincolns |
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/index.html This is the companion website to PBS' documentary Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Di v ided . It is concise, beautifully executed, and insightful. It is topically organized in groupings on partisan politics, slavery and freedom, the developing nation, mobilization for war, and the role of and effect on women. Sections offer explanatory text, primary sources, and video commentary by prominent historians. A teacher's guide to the film is included. The film set is held by the University Libraries. |
Allen C. Guelzo |
http://www.ashbrook.org/events/colloqui/2000/guelzo.html This talk - available here as an audio file - was given at the Ashbrook Center of Ashland University 1 December 2000 . " Although Abraham Lincoln is usually reckoned by almost any standard as our greatest president, he is not often thought great for being a man of ideas. Yet Lincoln, for all his famous lack of education and simple upbringing, was extraordinarily self-educated in texts that ranged from Joseph Butler and William Paley to Thomas Brown and Jonathan Edwards, and even more important, educated himself in some of the most vital intellectual currents of the 19th century." |
Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress |
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html The complete collection consists of approximately 20,000 documents. There is a special presentation of material concerning the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. This is a manuscript collection. Material is in Lincoln 's hand. The collection is searchable by keyword and may be browsed chronologically. |
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln |
http://www.hti.umich.edu/l/lincoln/ " In 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , a multi-volume set of Lincoln 's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editorial staff, with the continued support of the association, spent five years transcribing and annotating Lincoln's papers." Documents may be retrieved by searching by single words and phrases, by Boolean operators (and, or, not), by proximity (which enables one to search by the location of terms to one another), and by an index of terms. |
Abraham Lincoln Historic Photograph Archive |
http://www.abrahamlincolnartgallery.com/archivephoto.htm Free download of thirty-five famous Lincoln photographs from the Library of Congress is provided. Except for two color photographs there are no copyright restrictions. |
"We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!" |
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html This site ". . . includes more than two hundred sheet-music compositions that represent Lincoln and the war as reflected in popular music. The collection spans the years from Lincoln 's presidential campaign in 1859 through the centenary of Lincoln 's birth in 1909." Searchable by keywords and it may be browsed by title, subject, and publisher. |
The Lincoln Forum |
"The Lincoln Forum is an assembly of people who share a deep interest in the life and times of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era. Through a roster of activities and projects including symposia, tours, student essay competitions, a newsletter and an annual award to recognize special contributions to the field of Lincoln studies, the Forum endeavors to enhance the understanding and preserve the memory of Abraham Lincoln." Many of the nation's leading scholars and students of Lincoln belong to this group. Some Forum meetings or related programming have appeared on C-SPAN2's BookTV.org, http://www.booktv.org/ . |
