Lincoln - A Bicentennial Commemoration
of His Life and Legacy

• GENERAL LIFE, BIOGRAPHY
    Nonfiction
    Fiction
• LINCOLN AND THE CIVIL WAR
    Nonfiction
    Fiction
• ABRAHAM AND MARY TODD LINCOLN
    Nonfiction
    Fiction
• THE LINCOLN PRESIDENCY
    Nonfiction
• FILM, DRAMA, MUSIC, POEMS AND SPEECHES
• WEBSITES

GENERAL LIFE, BIOGRAPHY

Nonfiction

Lincoln the Lawyer
Brian R. Dirck
973.7092 DIR

The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President
J. M. Fenster
973.7092 FEN 

Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World
973.7092 OUR

Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power
Richard Carwardine
B LINCOLN

Lincoln
David Herbert Donald
B LINCOLN

With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Stephen B. Oates
B LINCOLN

Abraham Lincoln: A Life
Michael Burlingame
On order

Abraham Lincoln
James M. McPherson
On order

Fiction

Abe
Richard Slotkin
FIC SLOTKIN

Lincoln
Gore Vidal
FIC VIDAL

LINCOLN AND THE CIVIL WAR

Nonfiction

Lincoln’s Darkest Year: The War in 1862
William Marvel
973.7 MAR

House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War
Stephen William Berry
973.7092 BER

Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson
973.7092 MCP

Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War
Craig L. Symonds
973.7092 SYM

One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln’s Road to Civil War
John C. Waugh
973.7092 WAU

1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and the War They Failed to See
Bruce Chadwick
973.711 CHA

Fiction

Mr. Lincoln’s Wars: A Novel in Thirteen Stories
Adam Braver
FIC BRAVER

To Make Men Free: A Novel of the Battle of Antietam
Richard Croker
FIC CROKER

Savannah, or, A Gift for Mr. Lincoln
John Jakes
FIC JAKES

Pinkerton’s Secret
Eric Lerner
FIC LERNER

ABRAHAM AND MARY TODD LINCOLN

Nonfiction

The Madness of Mary Lincoln
Jason Emerson
973.7092 EME

The Lincolns:  Portrait of a Marriage
Daniel Mark Epstein 
973.7092 EPS

The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon
Gabor Boritt, ed.
973.7092 LIN

Crowns of Thorns and Glory:  Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Howell Davis, the Two First Ladies of the Civil War
Gerry Van der Heuvel
973.70922 VAN

The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln
Mark E. Neely
973.8 NEE; ONLINE BOOK

Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Jean H. Baker
B LINCOLN

Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters
Justin G. Turner
B LINCOLN

Mrs. Lincoln: A Life
Catherine Clinton
B LINCOLN

Fiction

The Emancipator’s Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln
Barbara Hambly
FIC HAMBLY

Mary
Janis Cooke Newman
FIC NEWMAN

Love is Eternal: A Novel about Mary Todd Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln
Irving Stone
FIC STONE

THE LINCOLN PRESIDENCY

Nonfiction

Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency
John C. Waugh
324.97307 WAU 

Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers 
James F. Simon
342.087 SIM

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
973.7092 GOO

Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861
Harold Holzer
973.7092 HOL

President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman
William Lee Miller
973.7092 MIL

The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
Phillip S. Paludan
973.7092 PAL

Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words
Douglas L. Wilson
973.7092 WIL

FILM, DRAMA, MUSIC, POEMS AND SPEECHES

Film

The Civil War [DVD]
973.7 CIV (SET)      

The Lincolns of Springfield, Illinois [Videorecording]
973.7 LIN     

You Are There. Abraham Lincoln's Great Moments [DVD]
973.7 YOU

Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided [DVD]
973.7092 ABR

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
DVD LAS

National Treasure 2, Book of Secrets
DVD NAT

Drama

“Abe Lincoln in Illinois” by Robert Sherwood
50 best plays of the American Theatre
812.08 BAR VOL. 4

Mister Lincoln: A Drama in Two Acts
Herbert Mitgang
812.54 MIT

Music

Abraham Lincoln in Song by Chris Vallillo 
J CD 781.6213 VAL   

Lincoln: The Musical Soundtrack of the Film by Kunhardt Prod.
Alan Menken
CD 781.546 MEN

“Lincoln Portrait, for Speaker & Orchestra” by Aaron Copland
The Voice of America        
CD 781.599 VOI

Song of America: Music from the Library of Congress
CD 782.42 HAM 

Poems and Speeches

The Abraham Lincoln Companion
Helene Henderson, ed.       
973.7092 ABR 

Lincoln
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
811 DUN

O Captain! My Captain!, Hush’d Be the Camps To-day, This Dust Was Once the Man, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
The Selected Poems of Walt Whitman 
811.3 WHI

WEBSITES

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
• Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission  
• International Lincoln Association
• Looking for Lincoln

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