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Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation thro ...

16th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861, until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its

Civil War A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...

—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the

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, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.

Political career of Abraham Lincoln

Political philosophy of Abraham Lincoln

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'' – while this document was instrumental in the founding of the United States, it was also a statement of human rights, most notably through the phrase that "

all men are created equal The quotation "all men are created equal" is part of the sentence in the U.S. Declaration of Independence – penned by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 during the beginning of the American Revolution – that reads "We hold these truths to be self-evide ...

". Abraham Lincoln made the document the centerpiece of his rhetoric (as in the Gettysburg Address of 1863), and his policies. He considered it to be the foundation of his political philosophy and argued that the Declaration is a statement of principles through which the United States Constitution should be interpreted. *

Abraham Lincoln and slavery Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery in the United States is one of the most discussed aspects of his life. Lincoln often expressed moral opposition to slavery in public and private. "I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing ...

Electoral history of Abraham Lincoln

Electoral history of Abraham Lincoln * Campaigning for Congress (1843) * Campaigning for Henry Clay (1844) * Campaigning for Congress (1846) * Republican National Convention, 1856 * United States Senate election (Illinois), 1858 – Abraham Lincoln was the Republican Party candidate and ran against incumbent Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party. Stephen Douglas remained Senator, but the debates between the two propelled the popularity of Lincoln and acquired for him a national reputation, which helped him to be chosen as the Republican candidate for president in 1860. ** Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858 – held publicly in 7 towns, they drew especially large numbers of people from neighboring states, as the issue of slavery was of monumental importance to citizens everywhere in the nation. The debates were covered in complete detail in newspapers across the country. * Republican National Convention, 1860 * 1860 United States presidential election ** 1860 campaign song * Republican National Convention, 1864 ** National Union Party *

1864 United States presidential election The 1864 United States presidential election was the 20th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1864. Near the end of the American Civil War, incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily ...

Abraham Lincoln in the United States Congress by

Offices held by Abraham Lincoln prior to his presidency

* Illinois Legislature, 1834–1842 * House of Representatives (1847–1849)

Presidency of Abraham Lincoln

Presidency of Abraham Lincoln The presidency of Abraham Lincoln began on March 4, 1861, when Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States, and ended upon his assassination and death on April 15, 1865, days into his second term. Lincoln was the ...

Events during Abraham Lincoln's presidency

First inauguration of Abraham Lincoln First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: *World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and reco ...

Perpetual Union The Perpetual Union is a feature of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, which established the United States of America as a political entity. Under modern American constitutional law this means that U.S. states are not permitted t ...

Lincoln Bible The Lincoln Bible is a Bible that was owned by William Thomas Carroll, a clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court. The bible was used by President Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration in 1861. It was also used by President Barack Obama at his inaugurations i ...

Second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln The second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States took place on Saturday, March 4, 1865, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 20th inauguration and marked the commencement ...

Baltimore Plot The Baltimore Plot was a conspiracy in late February 1861 to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln en route to his inauguration. Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, played a key role by managing Lincoln's sec ...

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states ...

Origins of the American Civil War Historians who debate the origins of the American Civil War focus on the reasons that seven Southern states (followed by four other states after the onset of the war) declared their secession from the United States (the Union) and united to ...

** Alexander Stephens' Cornerstone Speech **

Confiscation Acts The Confiscation Acts were laws passed by the United States Congress during the Civil War with the intention of freeing the slaves still held by the Confederate forces in the South. The Confiscation Act of 1861 authorized the confiscation of any ...

President Lincoln's 75,000 Volunteers On April 15, 1861, at the start of the American Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for a 75,000-man militia to serve for three months following the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter. Some southern states refused to send tro ...

Revenue Act of 1861 The Revenue Act of 1861, formally cited as Act of August 5, 1861, Chap. XLV, 12 Stat. 292', included the first U.S. Federal income tax statute (seSec.49. The Act, motivated by the need to fund the Civil War, imposed an income tax to be "levied, c ...

** Origin of the Anaconda Plan ** RMS ''Trent'' Affair ** Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1863 ** Emancipation Proclamation ** Separation of West Virginia from Virginia ** Overland Campaign strategy – Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and President Abraham Lincoln devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of the Confederacy from multiple directions. This was the first time the Union armies would have a coordinated offensive strategy across a number of theaters. **

Hampton Roads Conference The Hampton Roads Conference was a peace conference held between the United States and representatives of the unrecognized breakaway Confederate States on February 3, 1865, aboard the steamboat '' River Queen'' in Hampton Roads, Virginia, to disc ...

** Evacuation and Capture of Richmond ** Lincoln's presidential Reconstruction *

Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representative ...

– the amendment that abolished slavery *

Dakota War of 1862 The Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising, the Dakota Uprising, the Sioux Outbreak of 1862, the Dakota Conflict, the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, or Little Crow's War, was an armed conflict between the United States and several ban ...

Department of the Northwest The Department of the Northwest was an U.S. Army Department created September 6, 1862 to put down the Sioux uprising in Minnesota. Major General John Pope was made commander of the Department. At the end of the Civil War the Department was rede ...

Homestead Act of 1862 The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead. In all, more than of public land, or nearly 10 percent of th ...

National Bank Act The National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864 were two United States federal banking acts that established a system of national banks, and created the United States National Banking System. They encouraged development of a national currency backed by ...

* Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation – in 1863, Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving to be a national holiday, and set it as the last Thursday in November. It has remained thus ever since. *

Birchard Letter The Birchard Letter (June 29, 1863), was a public letter from United States President Abraham Lincoln to Matthew Birchard and eighteen other Ohio Democrats in which Lincoln defended the administration's treatment of antiwar agitators, and offered ...

* Bixby letter * Formation of the National Academy of Sciences – the NAS was founded in 1863 by an Act of Congress, and signed into existence by President Lincoln. * United States Department of Agriculture#Formation and subsequent history * State of the Union Address, 1863 * 1864

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

* Assassination of Abraham Lincoln *

Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, a three-week series of events was held to mourn the death and memorialize the life of the 16th president of the United States. Funeral services, a procession, and a lying in state were ...

** Lincoln catafalque

Abraham Lincoln's notable speeches

* Lyceum address (1838) * Peoria speech (1854) * "Lost Speech" (1856) * House Divided speech (1858) * Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858) * Cooper Union Address (1860) * Farewell Address (1861) * First inaugural address (1861) * Gettysburg Address (1863 event) – this speech was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg. In his address, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the

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and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by the secession crisis, with "a new birth of freedom"White Jr., Ronald C. ''The Words That Moved a Nation'' in:
Abraham Lincoln A Legacy of Freedom
", Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of State – Bureau of International Information Programs, p. 58. that would bring true equality to all of its citizens. Lincoln also redefined the Civil War as a struggle not just for the Union, but also for the principle of human equality. * Second inaugural address (1865)

Personal life of Abraham Lincoln

Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring farm, south of Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky. His siblings were Sarah Lincoln Grigsby and Thomas Lincoln, Jr. After a land title dispute force ...

Abraham Lincoln in the Black Hawk War Abraham Lincoln served as a volunteer in the Illinois Militia April 21, 1832 – July 10, 1832, during the Black Hawk War. Lincoln never saw combat during his tour but was elected captain of his first company. He was also present in the aftermath ...

* Matson Trial *

Spot Resolutions The spot resolutions were offered in the United States House of Representatives on 22 December 1847 by future President Abraham Lincoln, then a Whig representative from Illinois. The resolutions requested President James K. Polk to provide Congre ...

Abraham Lincoln's patent Abraham Lincoln's patent relates to an invention to buoy and lift boats over shoals and obstructions in a river. Abraham Lincoln conceived the invention when on two occasions the boat on which he traveled got hung up on obstructions. Lincoln's ...

* '' Hurd v. Rock Island Bridge Co.'' *

* Lincoln's beard *

Medical and mental health of Abraham Lincoln Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...

* Poetry of Abraham Lincoln * Religious views of Abraham Lincoln *

Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln The sexuality of Abraham Lincoln, and the possibility of his homosexuality, has occasioned historical speculation. Although attribution of homosexuality would have been damaging, no accusations by Abraham Lincoln's many political opponents during ...

Family of Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln family The Lincoln family is an American family of English origins. It includes the fourth United States Attorney General, Levi Lincoln, Sr., senators Levi Lincoln, Jr. and Enoch Lincoln, and Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United Stat ...

Mary Todd Lincoln Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818July 16, 1882) served as First Lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Mary Lincoln was a member of a large and wealthy, slave-owning ...

(wife) *

Robert Todd Lincoln Robert Todd Lincoln (August 1, 1843 – July 26, 1926) was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician. He was the eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. Robert Lincoln became a business lawyer and company presi ...

(son) *

Edward Baker Lincoln Edward Baker Lincoln (March 10, 1846 – February 1, 1850) was the second son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. He was named after Lincoln's close friend, Edward Dickinson Baker. Both Abraham and Mary spelled his name "Eddy"; how ...

(son) *

William Wallace Lincoln William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln (December 21, 1850 – February 20, 1862) was the third son of President Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. He was named after Mary's brother-in-law, Dr. William Smith Wallace. He died of typhoid fever at the White H ...

(son) * Thomas "Tad" Lincoln (son) * Mary Todd "Mamie" Lincoln (granddaughter) * Abraham Lincoln II (grandson) * Jessie Lincoln (granddaughter) *

Thomas Lincoln Thomas Lincoln (January 6, 1778 – January 17, 1851) was an American farmer, carpenter, and father of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Unlike some of his ancestors, Thomas could not write. He struggled to make a succes ...

(father) *

Nancy Hanks Lincoln Nancy Hanks Lincoln (February 5, 1784 – October 5, 1818) was the mother of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Her marriage to Thomas Lincoln also produced a daughter, Sarah, and a son, Thomas Jr. When Nancy and Thomas had been married for ...

(mother) * Sarah Bush Lincoln (stepmother) *

Sarah Lincoln Grigsby The Lincoln family is an American family of English origins. It includes the fourth United States Attorney General, Levi Lincoln, Sr., senators Levi Lincoln, Jr. and Enoch Lincoln, and Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United State ...

(sister) *

(paternal grandfather) *

Mordecai Lincoln Mordecai Lincoln (1771 – 1830) was an uncle of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. He was the eldest son of Captain Abraham Lincoln, a brother of Thomas Lincoln and Mary Lincoln Crume, and the husband of Mary Mudd. Lincoln is buried at the Old Cat ...

(paternal uncle) * Mary Lincoln Crume (paternal aunt) * John Hanks (maternal cousin) *

Joseph Hanks Joseph Hanks (1725–1793) was the great-grandfather of United States President Abraham Lincoln. It is generally accepted that Joseph was the father of Lucy Hanks, the mother of Nancy Hanks Lincoln. There is also a theory that Joseph and his wife, ...

(great-grandfather) *

Samuel Lincoln Samuel Lincoln (born 1622 – died May 26, 1690) was an Englishman and progenitor of many notable United States political figures, including his 4th great-grandson, President Abraham Lincoln, Maine governor Enoch Lincoln, and Levi Lincoln Sr. an ...

(17th-century ancestor) * Mary Lincoln Beckwith (great-granddaughter) *

Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (July 19, 1904 – December 24, 1985) was an American gentleman farmer known as a great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln. In 1975, he became the last undisputed descendant of Lincoln when his sister, Mary Lincoln Bec ...

(great-grandson) * Timothy Lincoln Beckwith (great-great-grandson)

Homes and places

Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial The Lincoln Trail Homestead State Park and Memorial is a state park located on the Sangamon River in Macon County near Harristown, Illinois, United States. Home of Lincoln family The state memorial is believed to contain the site of the hom ...

Lincoln's New Salem Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site is a reconstruction of the former village of New Salem in Menard County, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837. While in his twenties, the future U.S. President made his living in this ...

Lincoln Home National Historic Site Lincoln Home National Historic Site preserves the Springfield, Illinois home and related historic district where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1844 to 1861, before becoming the 16th president of the United States. The presidential memorial inclu ...

* Lincoln Pioneer Village *

Little Pigeon Creek Community Little Pigeon Creek Community, also known as Little Pigeon Creek Settlement and Little Pigeon River settlement, was a settlement in present Carter and Clay Townships, Spencer County, Indiana along Little Pigeon Creek. The community, in the area o ...

* Cottage at the Soldier's Home *

Lincoln Bedroom The Lincoln Bedroom is a bedroom which is part of a guest suite located in the southeast corner of the second floor of the White House in Washington, D.C. The Lincoln Sitting Room makes up the other part of the suite. The room is named for Presi ...

Lincoln Sitting Room The Lincoln Sitting Room is a small sitting room located next to the Lincoln Bedroom on the second floor of the White House. It was used as the White House telegraph room from 1865 to 1902 (until the West Wing was built). It is furnished in Vi ...

Ford's Theatre Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in August 1863. The theater is infamous for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater bo ...

Petersen House The Petersen House is a 19th-century federal style row house located at 516 10th Street NW in Washington, D.C. On April 15, 1865, United States President Abraham Lincoln died there after being shot the previous evening at Ford's Theatre, locat ...

Lincoln Tomb The Lincoln Tomb is the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States; his wife Mary Todd Lincoln; and three of their four sons: Edward, William, and Thomas. It is located in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfiel ...

Abraham Lincoln's legacy

* Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area *

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum documents the life of the 16th U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln, and the course of the American Civil War. Combining traditional scholarship with 21st-century showmanship techniques, the museum ...

* Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln *

Lincoln Highway The Lincoln Highway is the first transcontinental highway in the United States and one of the first highways designed expressly for automobiles. Conceived in 1912 by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, and formally dedicated October 31, 1913 ...

* The Papers of Abraham Lincoln ** Lincoln/Net * List of photographs of Abraham Lincoln *

Lincoln Prize The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, founded by the late Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman in partnership with Gabor Boritt, Director Emeritus of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for Ameri ...

Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln ''Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln'' is a stage show featuring an Audio-Animatronic representation of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, best known for being presented at Disneyland since 1965. It was originally showcased as the prime feature of t ...

Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln

Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln Since his death in 1865, Abraham Lincoln has been an iconic American figure depicted, usually favorably or heroically, in many forms. Lincoln has often been portrayed by Hollywood, almost always in a flattering light. He has been depicted in a w ...

* Abraham Lincoln on U.S. postage stamps * Lincoln's image on money **

Lincoln penny The Lincoln cent (sometimes called the Lincoln penny) is a one-cent coin that has been struck by the United States Mint since 1909. The obverse or heads side was designed by Victor David Brenner, as was the original reverse, depicting two stalks ...

** List of presidents of the United States on currency#Abraham Lincoln * Films about Lincoln ** ''Abraham Lincoln'' (1924) ** ''The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln'' (1924) ** ''Abraham Lincoln'' (1930) ** ''Young Mr. Lincoln'' (1939) ** ''Abe Lincoln in Illinois'' (1940) ** ''The Face of Lincoln'' (1955) ** ''Lincoln'' (2012) ** ''Killing Lincoln'' (2013)

Memorials to and monuments of Abraham Lincoln

Memorials to Abraham Lincoln * ''Abraham Lincoln'' (Healy painting) *

Statue of Abraham Lincoln (District of Columbia City Hall) ''Abraham Lincoln'' is a marble sculpture of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln by Irish artist Lot Flannery, located in front of the old District of Columbia City Hall in Washington, D.C., United States. The statue is the nation's oldest extant m ...

Lincoln's Birthday Lincoln's Birthday is a legal, public holiday in some U.S. states, observed on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth on February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville (Hodgensville, Hodgen's Mill), Kentucky.Cal. Gov. Code �6700(c) Connecticut, Illinois, ...

* Lincoln Memorial ** ''Abraham Lincoln'' (French, 1920) **

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is the largest of the many reflecting pools in Washington, D.C., United States. It is a long and large rectangular pool located on the National Mall, directly east of the Lincoln Memorial, with the Washington ...

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park is a designated U.S. historic park preserving two separate farm sites in LaRue County, Kentucky, where Abraham Lincoln was born and lived early in his childhood. He was born at the Sinking Sprin ...

** Knob Creek Farm *

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial is a United States presidential memorial and a National Historic Landmark District in Lincoln City, Indiana. It preserves the farm site where Abraham Lincoln lived with his family from 1816 to 1830. During that ...

Mount Rushmore Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota: ''Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe'', or Six Grandfathers) in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakot ...

Lincoln, Nebraska Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers with a population of 292,657 in 2021. It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 73rd-largest in the United Sta ...

* Lincoln Park * Lincoln State Park * Lincoln Trail State Memorial * ''The Peacemakers'' painting

Statues of Abraham Lincoln

* '' Abraham Lincoln: The Man'' * Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln, Nebraska) *

Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial) ''Abraham Lincoln'' (1920) is a colossal seated figure of the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) sculpted by Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) and carved by the Piccirilli Brothers. It is in the Lincoln Memoria ...

* ''Lincoln the Lawyer'' statue *

Abraham Lincoln Statue (Kentucky) The Abraham Lincoln Statue is a historic statue in the Hodgenville Commercial Historic District's public square in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Adolph Alexander Weinman sculpted the statue, as he also did the Lincoln statue at the capitol rotunda at F ...

* ''Young Abe Lincoln'' (1962) * '' Abraham Lincoln: The Head of State'' * ''Abraham Lincoln: The Man'' statue * Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Milwaukee)

Curiosities

* Lincoln's ghost * Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend

Publications about Abraham Lincoln

Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln * ''

'' * '' Abraham Lincoln's World'' * '' Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People'' * '' Abraham Lincoln: A History'' * '' Abraham Lincoln: The War Years'' * ''

Assassination Vacation ''Assassination Vacation'' is a 2005 book by Sarah Vowell, in which she travels around the United States researching the assassinations of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield and William McKinley. While most of the book is devot ...

'' * '' Forced into Glory'' * '' I Am Abraham Lincoln'' * '' Killing Lincoln'' * '' Lincoln and Darwin'' * '' Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion'' * '' Lincoln at Gettysburg'' * '' Lincoln the Unknown'' * '' Lincoln Unmasked'' * '' Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln'' * ''

The Fate of Liberty ''The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties'' is a 1991 book by American historian Mark E. Neely, Jr., published by Oxford University Press. The book examines President Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus and other rights ...

'' * '' The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery'' * '' The Lincoln Conspiracy'' * ''

Why Lincoln Matters ''Why Lincoln Matters: Today More Than Ever'' is a book by former New York Governor Mario Cuomo published in 2004. It is a discussion of how Cuomo believes that Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ...

Organizations concerning Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Association The Abraham Lincoln Association (ALA) is an American association advancing studies on Abraham Lincoln and disseminating scholarship about Lincoln. The ALA was founded in 1908 to lead a national celebration of Lincoln's 100th birthday and continues ...

Abraham Lincoln Institute The Abraham Lincoln Institute (ALI), founded in 1997, is an American non-profit organization promoting scholarly research on the subject of Abraham Lincoln.

References

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Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress"Life Portrait of Abraham Lincoln"
from C-SPAN's '' American Presidents: Life Portraits'', June 28, 1999
"Writings of Abraham Lincoln"
from C-SPAN's '' American Writers: A Journey Through History''
Abraham Lincoln: Original Letters and Manuscripts
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Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
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Teaching Abraham Lincoln
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