Home | News | Books | Speeches | Places | Resources | Students | Index | Search | Discussion This Week in History June 12, 1806 Lincoln's parents, Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, are married in Washington County, Kentucky. June 13, 1836 Lincoln announces his platform as a candidate for re-election to the Illinois General Assembly. June 14, 1837 Lincoln officially closes his accounts as ...

Image by permission of The Chicago Historical Society. Lincoln/Net presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois. The Illinois State Library has generously provided funds for the initiation of the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project. Copyright ...

Lincoln Home National Historic Site Located in Springfield, IL TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF At the park's center stands the two-story home of Abraham Lincoln, the only home he ever owned. The house was constructed in 1839 as a 1 1/2-story cottage. Abraham and Mary Lincoln lived here from 1844 until Mr. Lincoln's election to the ...

This website includes a biography, photographs, and lots of information about Abraham Lincoln including my e-mail address to answer questions about his life.

A Collaborative Project Library of Congress Manuscript Division and Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College Search by Keyword | Browse the Collection The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20, 000 documents. The collection is organized into three General Correspondence series which include incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts ...

Biography of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States (1861-1865).

Includes a detailed Timeline of Lincoln's life - Photos of Lincoln and all the major personalities from the Civil War - Info on the Battle of Gettysburg, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Decision - And the Words of Lincoln, his speeches, letters, war orders, proclaimations.

The Library of Congress A Cooperative Project from Library of Congress Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library highlights two collections at the Library of Congress that illuminate the life of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the sixteenth president of the United States. The Abraham Lincoln Papers housed in the Manuscript Division contain approximately 20, 000 items including correspondence and papers ...

Ford's Theatre National Historic Site Located in Washington D.C., DC TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Ford's Theatre in 1870 Ford's Theatre photo files IN BRIEF America's transfer from civil war to peace was made more difficult on April 14, 1865, when Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed, just five days after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court ...

Welcome to the Surratt House Museum Built in 1852 as a middle-class plantation home, historic Surratt House also served as a tavern and hostelry, a post office, and polling place during the crucial decade before the Civil War. During the war, it was a safehouse for the Confederate underground which flourished in Southern Maryland. It was the country home of Mary Surratt, first woman to be ...

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site Located near Hodgenville, KY TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Memorial Building designed by John Russell Pope (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF In the fall of 1808, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln settled on the 348 acre Sinking Spring Farm. Two months later on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln ...

Membership Directors Symposium/Annual Banquet Publications Projects Awards Bibliography Endowment Contact Information Search the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln The Abraham Lincoln Association was organized in 1908 as the Lincoln Centennial Association. It led the national celebration of Lincoln's one-hundredth birthday and continued to mark that day until 1925, when Paul M. Angle was hired ...

Political cartoons of Abraham Lincoln showing the evolution of his image from his first campaign for the presidency in 1860 through the Civil War to the early 1900s when he figured prominently in the debate about imperialism.

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A Documentary History of the Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln, 1836-1861 A Project of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency Co-sponsored by Abraham Lincoln Association University of Illinois at Springfield Center for Legal Studies Illinois Historic Preservation Agency Springfield, Illinois 2002 Page Last Updated: 05/24/2002 ...

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Forensic evidence authenticates a recently discovered early 1840s daguerreotype portrait of young Abraham Lincoln.

Comic and satirical portrayals of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War in the British humor magazine Punch from 1860 to 1965, including political cartoons, poems, and sketches.

The text of a talk given by Brigadier-General Henry Lawrence Burnett, an assistant special judge advocate for the Lincoln Assassination Trial, to the Presbyterian Church of Goshen, NY on his memories of the times and the trial.

Abraham Lincoln Papers The Martyr of liberty... (Library of Congress, Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division.) On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, Our American Cousin, President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Accompanying him at Ford's Theater that night were his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named ...

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Library: Historical Documents: John Remsburg: Six Historic Americans: Chapter 5 Six Historic Americans Abraham Lincoln by John E. Remsburg Introduction The Republic established by our Fathers, after enduring for three-quarters of a century, was menaced by destruction. Slavery, which had been planted in both sections of the Union, had proved unprofitable in the North and profitable in the South.

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R. Vincent Enlow, a New Jersey resident, has put together some significant research in a powerful disclosure of perhaps the greatest deception of the American public.

News of Abraham Lincoln's Death OUR GREAT LOSS Death of President Lincoln. The Songs of Victory Drowned in Sorrow. LOSING SCENES OF A NOBLE LIFE. The Great Sorrow of an Afflicted Nation. Party Differences Forgotten in Public Grief. Vice-President Johnson Inaugurated as Chief Executive. MR. SEWARD WILL RECOVER. John Wilkes Booth Believed to be the Assassin. Manifestations of the People Throughout ...

Assassination of Lincoln A History of the Great Conspiracy Trial of the Conspirators by a Military Commission And a review of the Trial of John H. Surratt By T. M. Harris Late Brigadier-General U. S. V. and Major General by Brevet A Member of the Commission General Harris's book was published around 1890. General Lew Wallace served on the same Military Commission as General Harris and his book ...

Home | News | Books | Speeches | Places | Resources | Students | Index | Search | Discussion White House Funeral Sermon for President Lincoln Washington, D.C. April 19, 1865 Dr. Phineas D. Gurley, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church which Lincoln attended while President, preached this funeral sermon in the East Room of the White House. Dr. Gurley was at Lincoln's side when he died ...

FreePress-FreeSpeech Banner | Home | 3rd Tour | Site Index | News Room | Site Search | Discuss | Guestbook | Links | Part 1: It Was Johnson The Crown in the Capitol In 1957 Ray A. Neff of Gibbsboro, New Jersey, walked into Leary's ookshop in Philadelphia and purchased a faded, second-hand book for fifty cents. Unbeknownst to Neff, inside that dusty military journal was a profound and stunning ...

Read First Inaugural Address by author Abraham Lincoln, FREE, online. (Table of Contents.) This book and many more are available.

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Abraham Lincoln Documents in the Illinois State Archives Abraham Lincoln Manuscripts Listed here are all items which at least in part are written in Abraham Lincoln s hand and which are known to be held by the Illinois State Archives. Further inquiries regarding these items should be made to: The Illinois State Archives, Margaret Cross Norton Building, Springfield, IL, 62756, telephone (217) ...

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To the Abraham Lincoln Page Outstanding site devoted to the life of Abraham Lincoln, his speeches, proclamations, humor, quotes, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, his Cabinets, some FAQ's, current news releases related to Lincoln, a list of Lincoln-related historical sites, and a bibliography. ...

Click Here to go Back to the Table of Contents Members.tripod.com/robhelmer/WEBTOC.htm Abraham Lincoln s face graces both the penny and the five dollar bill. From an imposing memorial, a King Kong-proportioned statue of Lincoln commands a view of Washington, DC His birthday has been combined with George Washington s to form a national holiday. His face has even been carved into the side of a ...

A companion web site to C-SPAN's author interview series Home | Archives | Book Talk | Bookstore | My Booknotes | About Looking Ahead August 18 Simon Worrall, The Poet and the Murderer 25 Michael Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East September 1 Winston Groom, A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front 8 Dennis ...

Lincoln's Assassination This may take a while, please be patient. Booth, John Wilkes; half-length, standing. 259k Corbett, Sgt. Boston, the man who claimed he shot John Wilkes Booth; three-quarter-length, seated at a table. 227k Payne, Lewis, the conspirator who attacked Secretary Seward; three-quarter-length, standing. 253k Execution of the four persons condemned as conspirators (Mary E.