| In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,—honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. |
| —Second Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862. |
| Abraham Lincoln |
Abraham Lincoln
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Author: Lincoln, Abraham
Works
Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas
The seven masterpieces of debate on the evil of slavery. First Inaugural Address & Second Inaugural Address
From Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States. Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Proclamation of Amnesty & Letter to Mrs. Bixby
From American Historical Documents, 1000–1904. Bartlett’s Lincolns Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
Writings About Lincoln, Abraham
“Lincoln”
Chapter with bibliography by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson from the Cambridge History of American Literature. Subject Index Entry on Lincoln
Over 150 references from History of the Civil War, 1861–1865. “Abraham Lincoln”
Essay by Jean Jules Jusserand from With Americans of Past and Present Days. “Abraham Lincoln”
Essay by James Russell Lowell from Essays: English and American. Abraham Lincoln, Death of President Lincoln, No Good Portrait of Lincoln, A Soldier on Lincoln, Death of Abraham Lincoln, A Lincoln Reminiscence & Abraham Lincoln
Essays by Walt Whitman from Prose Works. When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d, O Captain! My Captain!, Hush’d be the Camps To-day, This Dust was Once the Man
Verse by Walt Whitman from ”President Lincoln’s Burial Hymn” in Leaves of Grass. Lincoln, the Man of the People, Anne Rutledge, Master, Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, A Farmer Remembers Lincoln, Lincoln-Child & Lincoln
Poetry on Lincoln from Modern American Poetry.