Abraham Lincoln Research Site

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NOTE: The three main sections of this website are the Abraham Lincoln Research Site, Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination, and the Mary Todd Lincoln Research Site. For additional Lincoln information, please see my page titled Abraham Lincoln Links.

Left: Hand Colored Gardner Photograph ©2006 by artist James Nance.

ESPECIALLY FOR STUDENTS A One Page Summary of Abraham Lincoln's Life	TRAGEDY AT FORD’S THEATRE Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
LINCOLN'S WORDS A Collection of Authentic Abraham Lincoln Quotes	"MORTALITY" Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Poem
ANN RUTLEDGE Abraham Lincoln's First Romance?	CONTEMPORARY DRAWINGS Sketches of President Abraham Lincoln

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

SOURCE: The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1995), pp. 258-259.

THE PERSON Abraham Lincoln's Failures and a Striking Example of his Humanness (the Bixby Letter)	THE LINCOLN TOMB Abraham Lincoln's Coffin Exhumed and Opened in 1901
GRAVE THIEVES The 1876 Attempt to Steal Mr. Lincoln's Body	LINCOLN'S LOST SPEECH His Best of All?
ROBERT LINCOLN AND EDWIN BOOTH A Booth Saves a Lincoln!	THE LINCOLN SPECIAL The Route of Mr. Lincoln's Funeral Train (including a map)
"HIS HONOR" Judge Abraham Lincoln	CHRONOLOGY A Year-by-Year Outline of the 16th President’s Life

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.

THE LINCOLNS' FIRST SON Robert Lincoln	THE LINCOLNS' SECOND SON Eddie Lincoln
THE LINCOLNS' THIRD SON Willie Lincoln	THE LINCOLNS' FOURTH SON Tad Lincoln
FINAL IMAGE IN LIFE The Last Photograph of Abraham Lincoln in Life	LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG The Only Photograph of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg
A GHOST IN THE WHITE HOUSE? The Lincoln Bedroom	THE LINCOLNS' WEDDING The Day Miss Todd Became Mrs. Lincoln

"If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes - no other marks or brands recollected."

Abraham Lincoln, in a brief biographical sketch, December 20, 1859.

MARY TODD LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln's Wife	1909 PENNY The Controversy Over the Lincoln Penny
INCIDENT AT GORDON'S GRISTMILL Young Abraham Almost Died When He Was Kicked by a Horse	INCIDENT AT KNOB CREEK Young Abraham Almost Drowned
APRIL 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln's Last Day	ABE LINCOLN VS. JACK ARMSTRONG Abraham Lincoln Fought the Town Bully
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BEARD The Idea of an 11-Year-Old Girl!	DAVID WILLS' HOME Mr. Lincoln's Invitation To Gettysburg
THE LINCOLNS IN GRANITE The First Statue of Abraham Lincoln and his Wife, Mary	MORE INFORMATION Links to Lincoln's Homes, Speeches, Genealogy, etc.

LINCOLN'S PLACE IN HISTORY
The Accomplishments of President Abraham Lincoln

LINCOLN THE LAWYER
A Very Brief Summary of the Legal Career of Abraham Lincoln

DEPRESSED?
Read Abraham Lincoln's Words

THE EARLIEST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A Daguerreotype of a Beardless Lincoln in His Late 30’s

THE SHOT THROUGH LINCOLN'S HAT
Lincoln Escapes Death in 1864

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1809
The Birth of Abraham Lincoln

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S PARENTS
Thomas Lincoln, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S SISTER
Sarah Lincoln Grigsby

The Lincolns and Animals

Goats Kept Inside The White House by the Lincolns' Sons

FIDO - Abraham Lincoln's Dog

Young Tad Lincoln Saved the Life of Jack, The White House Turkey!

President Abraham Lincoln and the Three Kittens

Sources consulted in the creation of this site include: The Lincoln Reader edited by Paul M. Angle, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln by Michael Burlingame, Lincoln the Unknown by Dale Carnegie, Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood, Lincoln's Lost Speech by Elwell Crissy, Lincoln the Lawyer by Brian Dirck, Lincoln by David Herbert Donald, Robert Todd Lincoln: A Man in his Own Right by John S. Goff, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose by Charles Hamilton and Lloyd Ostendorf, Out of the Wilderness by William Hanchett, Life of Lincoln by William Herndon and Jesse Weik, Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography by Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon by Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by Ward Hill Lamon, The Lincoln Herald published by Lincoln Memorial University Press, Lincoln The Man by Edgar Lee Masters, The Nation's Tribute to Abraham Lincoln by B.F. Morris, Abraham Lincoln's Stories and Speeches edited by J. B. McClure, Largely Lincoln by David Chambers Mearns, Lincoln Day by Day edited by Earl Schenck Miers, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia by Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Last Best Hope of Earth by Mark E. Neely, Jr., Life of Abraham Lincoln by Clifton M. Nichols, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln by John G. Nicolay, With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates, Lincoln in American Memory by Merrill D. Peterson, Mr. Lincoln by J.G. Randall edited by Richard N. Current, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory by Barry Schwartz, The Farewell to Lincoln by Victor Searcher, Lincoln: A Pictorial History by Edward Steers, Jr., The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ida M. Tarbell, Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet by Wayne C. Temple, Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin P. Thomas, Lincoln's New Salem by Benjamin P. Thomas, Lincoln's Little Girl by Fred Trump, Lincoln's Boyhood by Francis Marion Van Natter, Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Work, and Character edited by Edward Wagenknecht, Abraham Lincoln: Servant of the People by Carl E. Wahlstrom, The Shadows Rise: Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend by John Evangelist Walsh, Lincoln's Youth: Indiana Years by Louis A. Warren, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills, Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln edited by Douglas A. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln by Douglas L. Wilson, Lincoln Before Washington: New Perspectives on the Illinois Years by Douglas L. Wilson, and Lawyer Lincoln by Albert A. Woldman.

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