Peopling the American Past

The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
The Abraham Lincoln Association
http://www.hti.umich.edu/l/lincoln/
Electronic version of the 1953 publication of the complete writings of Abraham Lincoln.

America’s Civil War: Documents
University of the South
http://www.sewanee.edu/faculty/Willis/Civil_War/documents.html
Professor John C. Willis’ collection of speeches, correspondence, journalism, party platforms, legislation, military orders, and statistical tables.

The Gettysburg Address
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/gadrft.html
Discussion of various drafts of the Gettysburg Address. Also displays the only known photograph of Lincoln delivering the speech.

Gettysburg Address
Cornell University
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/gettysburg/good_cause/CU_copy_p2.htm
Site on the Gettysburg address that contains eight contemporary reactions and explains what happened to the Confederate dead.

The United States Civil War Center
Louisiana State Libraries Special Collection
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
An index of Civil War information on the Internet. To promote the study of the Civil War.

Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Fehrenbacher, Don E., ed. Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 1832-1855, Library of America, 1989.

Fehrenbacher, Don E. and Virginia Fehrenbacher, eds. Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Gienapp, William E. The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom. New York: Ballentine Books, 1988.

Meltzer, Milton, ed. Lincoln In His Own Words. New York: Harcourt, 1993.

Murphy, Jim. The Long Road to Gettysburg. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992.

Polley, Robert L. ed. Lincoln: His Words and His World. New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1965.

Randall, J. G. and David Herbert Donald. The Civil War and Reconstruction. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1969.

Wills, Garry. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.