Teaching with Primary Sources

The Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities

Using the Library of Congress to Study

Abraham Lincoln

Debra Hasselbacher, Kristin Henrichs & David W. McMullen

 

For the Student

 

Here is a list of  books to help you in your research. The Library of Congress catalog number is included.

Bateman, N. (1932). Abraham Lincoln: An address. Gardena, CA: H.E. Barker, Spanish American Institute.
                Call Number: E457.8 .B36 1932

Bozonelis, H.K. (2008). 200 years with Abraham Lincoln: One man’s life and legacy. Berkeley Heights: Enslow Publishers.
                Call Number: E457.905.B65 2008

Brooks, N. (1909). Abraham Lincoln: The nation’s leader in the great struggle through which was maintained the existence of the United States. Washington: National Tribune.
                Call Number: E457 .B8785

Donald, D.H. (1999). Lincoln at home: Two glimpses of Abraham Lincoln’s domestic life. Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association in corporation with Thornwillow Press.
                Call Number: E457.25 .D66 2000

Dupy, T.N. (1969). The military life of Abraham Lincoln, Commander in Chief. New York: F. Watts.Levin, J.E. (2010). Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. New York: Threshold Editions.
                Call Number: E457.D8

Lincoln, A. (1971). The collected poetry of Abraham Lincoln. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
                Call Number: E457.92 1971b

Miller, F.T. (1970). Portrait life of Lincoln. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press.
                Call Number: E457.6 .M64 1970

Nicolay, J.G. (1996). An oral history of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay’s interviews and essays M. Burlingame, (Ed.). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
                 Call Number: E457.2 .N67 1996

Platt, T.B. (1972). Portrait for posterity: Lincoln and his biographers. R. Proctor (Illus.) Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press.
                 Call Number: E457 .T43

Schmidt, R. (2006). How to draw the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. New York: PowerKids Press.
                 Call Number: E457.905 .S355 2006

Simon, J.Y., Holzer, H., & Pederson, W.D. (1999). The Lincoln forum: Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, and the Civil War. Mason City, IA: Savas Pub Co.
                 Call Number: E457.8 .L738 2002

Stone, I. (1954). Love is eternal: A novel about Mary Todd Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday.
                 Call Number: PS3537.T669 L6 1990

Whitman, W. (1906). Memories of President Lincoln, and other lyrics of the war. Portland, ME.: T. B. Mosher.
                 Call Number: E457.9 .W618

 

Historical Background

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Bibliography

 

 

For the Teacher

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