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HISTORIANS ON LINCOLN Lincoln Historians' Lectures
Sean Wilentz: Lincoln and Jacksonian Democracy PLay Now
Manisha Sinha: Lincoln and Black Abolitionists PLay Now
James Oakes: Lincon and Race PLay Now
Richard Carwardine: Lincoln's Religion PLay Now
Eric Foner: Lincoln and EmancipationPLay Now
Catherine Clinton: Lincoln's Family and ChildhoodPLay Now
Mark Neely: Lincoln and Civil LibertiesPLay Now
James McPherson: Lincoln as Commander in ChiefPLay Now
Andrew Delbanco: Many Lincolns (Closing Remarks)PLay Now

For more historians' lectures, please visit our audio podcast page



RECENT ESSAYS ON LINCOLNRecent Insights into Lincoln


LINCOLN BOOK PRIZE WINNERSTop Books on Lincoln
2010: Michael Burlingame
Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Johns Hopkins University Press)

2009: James M. McPherson
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (Penguin)
Craig L. Symonds
Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War (Oxford University Press)

2008: James Oakes
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (W. W. Norton)

2007: Douglas L. Wilson
Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Simon & Schuster)

For more, see the Institute's Lincoln Book Prize




ONLINE EXHIBITIONS ON LINCOLN AND THE CIVIL WAROnline Exhibits on Lincoln and the Civil War Era


FOR A PRINTABLE BROCHURE of all of the Gilder Lehrman Institute's Lincoln resources, click here.

 




LINCOLN SHOP
Lincoln Shop
Abraham Lincoln Calendar

 

2010 Abraham Lincoln Calendar
$12.95 each

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Posters
22" x 30" posters
$10 each
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Abraham Lincoln, 1860

Emancipation Proclamation

Second Inaugural Address

Abraham Lincoln, 1863
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Books Books
$14.95 each
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Great Lincoln Documents:
Historians Present Treasures from the Gilder Lehrman Collection


Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery

"I take up my pen": Letters from the War [Civil War letters from the Gilder Lehrman
Collection]
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Box Set
Abraham Lincoln: History in a Box - $150
This box includes a resource book and CD of documents, artwork, maps, and study questions; posters; "Mr Lincoln's War," a CD-ROM of letters, photographs, and songs from the Civil War; and a DVD of eight lectures by leading scholars. "Mr Lincoln's War," (CD-ROM) is also available separately for $10. More Info



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