Building the myth : selected speeches memorializing Abraham Lincoln

A plain man of the people / Ralph Waldo Emerson

A new impulse of patriotism for his sake / Henry Ward Beecher

The character, life, and death of Abraham Lincoln / Phillip Brooks

How shall the nation show its sorrow? / George Bancroft

Under the permissive hand of God / Matthew Simpson

Expression of gratitude for freedom / Frederick Douglass

The scene in the silent and pathetic language of art / James A. Garfield

Saviour of the nation / Shelby M. Cullom

The outline of the greatness of his gigantic figure / Jonathan P. Dolliver

Lincoln as an orator / William Jennings Bryan

Celebrating Lincoln / Joseph H. Choate

My tribute to the great emancipator / Booker T. Washington

The supreme vision of Lincoln / Theodore Roosevelt

Lincoln the orator / William E. Borah

The sacred mystery of democracy / Woodrow Wilson. The people's national tribute / William Howard Taft

Lincoln's conceptions of liberty and justice / Elihu Root

Abraham Lincoln, the inspirer of democracy / David Lloyd George

Lincoln the man / Ida M. Tarbell

Lincoln's faith in the people ; The struggle for human liberty ; Unfinished work of emancipation / Adlai E. Stevenson

Abraham Lincoln and our unfinished business / Mario M. Cuomo