Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party.

External links

• The Lincoln Institute
• Especially for Students: An Overview of Abraham Lincoln's Life
• Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library
• Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress (1850-1865)
• Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln
• Abraham Lincoln's Program of Black Resettlement
• Abraham Lincoln Research Site
• Abraham Lincoln - Encarta
• Abraham Lincoln Online
• The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College
• Original 1860's Harper's Weekly Images and News on Abraham Lincoln
• The Lincoln Log: A Daily Chronology of the Life of Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln Memorial Washington, DC
• The Lincoln Museum Fort Wayne, Indiana
• The Lincoln Prize A national book award sponsored by The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
• Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
• John Summerfield Staples, President Lincoln's "Substitute"
• US6469 Patent -- Manner of Bouying Vessels -- A. Lincoln -- 1849
• King Lincoln (an archive of articles on Lincoln)
• White House Biography
• National Park Service Abraham Lincoln birthplace (includes good early history)

Documents at Project Gutenberg

by Abraham Lincoln

• Speeches and addresses
• {{gutenberg | no=4 | name=Gettysburg Address}}
• {{gutenberg | no=9 | name=Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address}}
• {{gutenberg | no=8 | name=Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address}}
• {{gutenberg | no=8110 | name=Lincoln Letters}}
• {{gutenberg | no=14721 | name=Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865}}
• {{gutenberg | no=5024 | name=State of the Union Addresses}}
• The Writings of Abraham Lincoln
• {{gutenberg | no=2653 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 1: 1832-1843}}
• {{gutenberg | no=2654 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 2: 1843-1858}}
• {{gutenberg | no=2655 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 3: the Lincoln-Douglas debates}}
• {{gutenberg | no=2656 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 4: the Lincoln-Douglas debates}}
• {{gutenberg | no=2657 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 5: 1858-1862}}
• {{gutenberg | no=2658 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 6: 1862-1863}}
• {{gutenberg | no=2659 | name=Writings of Abraham Lincoln, the - Volume 7: 1863-1865}}
• Miscellany
• {{gutenberg | no=12462 | name=A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Volume 6, part 1: Abraham Lincoln}}
• {{gutenberg | no=2517 | name=Lincoln's Yarns and Stories}}

about Lincoln

• Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Abraham Lincoln: a History (1890) by John Hay (1835 to 1905) & John George Nicolay (1832 to 1901)
• eText of The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln (1907) by Nicolay, Helen (1866 to 1954)
• eText of The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1901) by Henry Ketcham
• Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Abraham Lincoln (1899) by John T. Morse
• eText of The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln (1913) by Francis Fisher Browne
• eText of Abraham Lincoln: The People's Leader in the Struggle for National Existence (1909) by George Haven Putnam, Litt. D.
• eText of Lincoln's Personal Life (1922) by Nathaniel W. Stephenson