Selections from the works of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, Harry Worthington Hastings (Editor), Harold William Thompson (Editor)
Personal correspondence
1 online resource (vi, 262 pages) : plates, portraits
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Autobiography, 1860
From Lincoln's first political announcement, March 9, 1832
Another early announcement of political views, June 13, 1836
The temperance revolution, February 22, 1842
Notes for a law lecture, July 1850
Selections from the speech at Peoria, October 16, 1854
Bloomington speech, May 29, 1856
Definition of democracy, August 1, 1858
The Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
Letter to J.U. Brown, October 18, 1858
Letter to H.L. Pierce, April 6, 1859
Cooper Union address, February 27, 1860
Farewell address, February 11, 1861
Policies of government, from addresses delivered while on his way to the White House, February, 1861
Speech in Independence Hall, February 22, 1861
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
The people's contest, from message to Congress, July 4, 1861
Labor and capital, from annual message to Congress, December 3, 1861 Letter to General G.B. McClellan, February 3, 1862
Message to Congress recommending compensated emancipation, March 6, 1862
Letter to General G.B. McClellan, May 8, 1862
Lincoln and red tape, August 12, 1862
Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
Reply to a committee, September 13, 1862
Letter to Carl Schurz, November 24, 1862
The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
Letter to General J. Hooker, January 26, 1862
Letter to General U.S. Grant, July 13, 1863
Letter to James H. Hackett, August 17, 1863
Latter to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863
From a letter to C.D. Drake, October 5, 1863
The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
An opinion on property, from a reply to a committee, March 21, 1864
Letter to A.G. Hodges, April 4, 1864
Letter to Mrs. Horace Mann, April 5, 1864
Definition of liberty, from an address, April 18, 1864
Messages to General Grant, 1864
From an address to the 166th Ohio Regiment, August 22, 1864
Reply to a Serenade, November 10, 1864
Letter to Mrs. Bixby, November 21, 1864
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
Letter to Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865
Last public address, April 11, 1865
Appendices. Glossary of political terms
Chronological tables
Classroom suggestions