Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809.  February 12, 2009 will mark the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday.  Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana where Lincoln was born, grew up and began his most interesting journey, will join with the rest of the nation to celebrate the life of Lincoln. The celebration will begin on February 12, 2008 and continue through February 12, 2010.

Here are some web sites that may be of interest to you.

Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project

You can read or listen to his biography and view vignettes of his life through text, images and videos.

The Kentucky Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

Site lists the Lincoln Bicentennial Inaugural Events, Kentucky's Lincoln story.

Kentucky Lincoln Heritage Trail

The Kentucky Heritage Council is a strong partner in the national and statewide Abraham Lincoln bicentennial celebration.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site

Kentucky Inaugural The Official Bicentennial Kick-Off

To celebrate Abraham Lincoln, Muhlenberg County Public Libraries provides many books and other materials about Lincoln’s life and historical events affected by his life and work.

A $250.00 Grant from the Kentucky Arts Council was received for the purchase of new Lincoln materials.

Biographies

Lincoln As I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes, and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies, by Harold, Holzer.   Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c.1999, 269p. Available at: HM

JB Boot
John Wilkes Booth and the Civil War,  by Steven Otfinoski.   Woodbridge, Conn.: Blackbirch Press, 1999, 80p. Available at: CC

KJB Linc
Abraham Lincoln: A Photo-Illustrated Biography, by T. M. Usel.     Minn: Bridgestone Books, 1996, 24p. Available at: CC

KB Linc
Lincoln,  by David Herbert Donald.   New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995, 714 p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Abraham Lincoln,  by Ingri D'Aulaire.    New York; Bantam, 1993, 60p.
Available at: CC

JB Linc
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Girl of the Bluegrass, by Katharine Elliott Wilkie.    New York: Aladdin Books, 1992, 192p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Abraham Lincoln: Leader of a Nation in Crisis, by Anna Sproule.    Milwaukee:
G. Stevens, Publisher, 1991, 68p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Lincoln’s Birthday, by Dennis B. Fradin.    Hillside. N.J.: Enslow  Publishers, 1990, 48p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Abraham Lincoln: President of a Divided Country, by Carol Greene.    Chicago:
Children’s Press, 1989, 44p. Available at: CC

KB linc
The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln: The Harrowing Never- Before-Told Story of Mary Todd Lincoln’s Last and Finest Year,  by Samuel Agnew Schreiner.    New York: D.I. Fine, 1987, 333p. Available at HM & CC

KJB Linc
Lincoln: A Photobiography, by Russell Freedman.    New York, NY: Clarion Books, 1987, 150p. Available at: HM & CC

KB Linc
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography, by Jean H. Baker.    1st. ed. New York: Norton, 1987, 429p. Available at: CC

KB Linc
The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln through His Words, by Ronald C. White.    New York: Random House, 2005, 448p. Available at: HM

JB Linc
Abraham Lincoln, by Mike Venezia.    New York: Children’s Press, 2005, 32p. Available at: HM

JPB Linc
Abraham Lincoln, by Barbara Knox.    Mankato, MN: Capstone Press/Pebbles Books, 2004, 24p. Available at: CC

SPA JB Linc
Lee Sobre Abraham Lincoln=Read about Abraham Lincoln, by Stephen Feinstein. Berkley Heights, NJ: Enslow Elementary, 2006, 24p. Available at: HM

KB Linc
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005, 916p. Available at: HM

KB Linc
Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War, by Kenneth Williams.    New York: MacMillan Company, 1949, 443p. Available at: HM

KB Linc
Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography, by William Lee Miller.   New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, 515p. Available at: CC

KB Linc
Lincoln, by Richard Carwardine.    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, 394p.
Available at: HM

JB Linc
Abraham Lincoln: The Life of America's Sixteenth President, by Jeffery Gary.
New York: Rosen Central, 2005, 48p. Available at: CC

KJB Linc
Abraham Lincoln the Boy Who Loved Books, by Kay Winters.    New York: Simon & Schuster Books for young readers, 2003, 40p. Available at HM & CC

KB Linc
Lincoln of Kentucky, by Lowell Hayes Harrison.    Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2000, 305p. Available at: HM

LTB Linc
Lincoln, a Foreigner's Quest, by Jan Morris.    Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press, 2000, 280p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Abe Lincoln Grows Up, by Carl Sandburg.    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, 222p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Mary Todd Lincoln: President's Wife, by LaVere Anderson.    Champaign, ILL: Garrard Publishing Company, 1975 80p. Available at: HM & CC

KB Linc
Abraham Lincoln, by D.W. Brogan.    London: Duckworth, 1974, 145p.
Available at: HM

KJB Linc
The Fiery Trial: A Life of Lincoln, by Herbert Mitgang.    New York: Viking Press, 1974, 207p. Available at: HM

KB Linc
The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Ida M. Tarbell.    South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes, 1974, 240p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, by Augusta Stevenson.    New York: Aladdin Books, 1959, 192 p. Available at: CC

KJB Linc
Abraham Lincoln, by Roger Burns.    New York: Chelsea House, 1986, 128p.
Available at: CC

KJB Linc
The Power of Trying Again: Featuring the Story of Abraham Lincoln, by Della Mae Rasmussen.    Antioch, California: Power Tales, Eagle Systems Intl Publishing, 1984,
64 p. Available at: CC

KB Linc
Abraham Lincoln, the Man behind the Myths, by Stephen B. Oates.    New York: Harper & Row, 1984, 224p. Available at: CC

KB Linc
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, by Carl Sandburg.  
 San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1982, 762p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Abe Lincoln, the Young Years, by Keith Brandt.    Mahwah, Nj: Troll Associates, 1982, 47p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Abe Lincoln, Make it Right!  by Dorothy Fay Richards.    Elgin, Ill: Child's World, 1978 32p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
The Value of Respect! The Story of Abraham Lincoln, by Ann Donegan Johnson.   
La Jolla, California: Value Communications, 1977, 63p. Available at: HM & CC

KJB Linc
What Made Lincoln Great: A Profile in Prose and Verse, by Mary Browning. Louisville, Kentucky:  Lincoln Inspirational Books, 1976, 95p. Available at: HM

KB Linc
The Statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln, by Oliva E. Coolidge.    New York: Scribner, 1976,  237p. Available at: CC

KB Linc
Abraham Lincoln: Unforgettable American, by Mabel Kunkel.    Charlotte, NC. :
Delmar Co., 1976,  448p. Available at: CC

KB Linc
The Lincoln Book,  by Harry Magers.    Tomkinsville, Ky : Printed by Monroe County Press, 1971, 245p. Available at: HM & CC

KB Linc
Abraham Lincoln, the Prairie Years, by Carl Sandburg.    New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1926, 2v.p. Available at: CC

KJB Linc
Abraham Lincoln, the Boy and the Man,  by James Morgan.    New York: Grosset & Dunlap by arrangement with MacMillan Company, 1908, 135p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Abraham Lincoln, by Frank Brown Latham.    New York: F. Watts, 1968, 163 p. Available at: CC

KB Linc
Lincoln: His Words and His World, by Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865.  Waukesha, Wis.: Published by Country Beautiful Foundation for Hawthorn Books; New York: 1965, 98p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
A Picture Story of Abraham Lincoln , by Lloyd Ostendorf.    New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1963, 159p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
My Cousin Abe, by Lucia Aileen Fisher.    New York: Nelson, 1962, 285p.
Available at: CC

KB Linc
Citizen of New Salem, by Paul Horgan.    New York: Straus and Cudahy, 1961, 89 p.
Available at: CC

KB Linc
Abraham Lincoln Goes to New York, by Andrew A. Freeman.    New York: Coward-McCann, 1960, 160 P. CC

KB Linc
Lincoln,  Picture Story of His Life, by Stefan Lorant.   New York: Harper 1957, 304p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
America’s Abraham Lincoln, by May Yonge McNeer.    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957, 119p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Abraham Lincoln, by Ingri D'Aulaire.   Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1957, 60p. Available at: HM

KB Linc
The Day Lincoln Was Shot, by Jim Bishop, 1907-1987.    New York: Harper, 1955, 308p. Available at: CC

B Hern
Lincoln’s Herndon: a Biography, by David Herbert Donald.    New York: Knopf, 1948, 392p. Available at: HM

KB Linc
The Lincoln Reader, by Paul M. Angle, 1900-1975.    New Brunswick, Nj: Rutgers University Press, 1947, 564 p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Abraham Lincoln : Illustrated with Lithographs in two Colors, by James Henry Daugherty.    New York: Viking Press, 1943, 216p. Available at: CC

KB Linc
Abraham Lincoln the War Years, by Carl Sandburg.     New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939, 660p.  Available at: HM

B Boot
The Man Who Killed Lincoln: The Story of John Wilkes Booth and His Part  in the Assassination, by Philip Van Doren Stern.    Cleveland: World, 1939, 376p.
Available at: HM

KB Linc
Lincoln Shot! : A President’s Life remembered, by Barry Denenberg.   New York: Feiwel and Friends,2008, 40p. Available at: HM

KB Linc
Lincoln through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Life, by Martin W. Sandler.  New York: Walker Pub. Co., 2008,  97p.  Available at: HM

KB Linc
The Lincoln’s: A Scrapbook look at Abraham and Mary, by Candace Fleming. New York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2008, 177p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Abraham Lincoln Comes Home, by Robert Burleigh. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2008, 32p.  Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Our Abe Lincoln, by Jim Aylesworth. New York: Scholastic Press, 2009, 32p.
Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship, by Nikki Giovanni. New York: Henry Holt and Co. 2008, 40p. Available at: HM

JB Linc
Mr. Lincoln’s Boys: Being the mostly true Adventures of Abraham Lincoln’s touble-making sons, Tad and Willie, by Staton Rabin.  New York: Penguin Group, 2008, 36p.
Available at: HM

KB Linc
Abraham Lincoln, by James M. Mcpherson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, 79p. Available at: HM

KB Linc
Abraham Lincoln, by George S. McGovern. New York: Times Books/Henry Holt Co. 2009, 184p. Available at: HM

KJB Linc
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall Thin Tale (introducing his forgotten frontier friend), by Deborah Hopkinson. New York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2008, 32p. Available at: HM & CC

KJB Linc
What Lincoln Said, by Sarah L. Thomson.  New York: HarperCollins Publishing, 2009, 32p. Available At HM

NonFiction

KJ 973.7092 Herb
Abraham Lincoln for Kids: His Life and Times with 21 Activities, by Janis Herbert.  Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2007, 149p.

342.7308 Simo
Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession and the President’s War Powers, by James F. Simon.    New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006, 324p. Available at: CC

K 973.7092 Berr
House of Abraham,  by Stephen William Berry.    Boston: Houghton Mufflin Company, 2007, 255p. Available at: HM

364.152 Swan
Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, by James Swanson.    New York: William Morrow, 2006, 448p. Available at: HM

J 730.92 Fitz
Vinnie and Abraham, by Dawn Fitzgerald.    Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2007, 40p. Available at: HM & CC

J 973.7 Olso
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by Kay Melchisedech Olson.    Mankato, MN:  Capstone Press, 2005, 32p. Available at: CC

J 394.26 Marg
President’s Day, by Amy Margaret.    New York: Powerkids Press, 2002, 24p.
Available at: CC

J 973.7 Binn
The Lincoln Memorial, by Tristan Boyer Binns.   Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2001, 32p. Available at: CC

345.73 Wals
Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial,  by John Evangelist Walsh.    New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000, 166p. Available at: CC

JP 973.7 Scha
Abraham Lincoln, by Lola M. Schaefer.    Mankato, Mn: Pebble Books/Capstone Press, 1999, 24p. Available at: CC

J 811 Livi
Abraham Lincoln: A Man for All the People: A Ballad, by Myra Cohen Livingston. New York: Holiday House, 1993, 32p. Available at: CC

J 973.7092 Asha
A Memorial for Mr. Lincoln, by Brent K. Ashabranner.    New York: Putnam, 1992, 113p. Available at: HM

J 973.5 McGo
If You Grew Up With Abraham Lincoln, by Ann Mcgovern.    New York: Scholastic. 1992, 79p. Available at: HM

J 973.7 Shor
Abraham Lincoln and the End of Slavery, by Russell Shorto.    Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1991, 28p. Available at: HM & CC

J 973.7 Monj
Me and Willie and Pa: The Story of Abraham Lincoln and His Son Tad, by F.N. Monjo.   New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973, 94p. Available at: HM & CC

973.7 Hist
The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory and History, by G.S. Boritt.     Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988, 423p. Available at: HM

J 973.7 Phel
Mr. Lincoln’s Inaugural Journey, by Mary Kay Phelan.    New York: Crowell, 1972, 211p. Available at: CC

973.738 Mier
The Last Campaign: Grant Saves the Union, by Earl Schenck Miers.    Philadelphia:  Lippincott, 1972, 213p. Available at: CC

J 364.15 Rosc
The Lincoln Assassination, April 14, 1865; Investigation of a President’s Murder Uncovers a Web of Conspiracy, by Theodore Roscoe.    New York: Watts, 1971, 90p. Available at: HM

973.7 Hynd
Arrival: 12:30, the Baltimore Plot against Lincoln, by Alan Hynd.    Camden, New Jersey: Nelson, 1967, 127p.  Available at: HM

J 973.7 Camm
Lincoln and the American Civil War, by Audrey Cammiade.    New York: Roy Publishers, 1967, 94p. Available at: CC

KJ 973.734 Phel
Mr. Lincoln Speaks at Gettysburg, by Mary Kay Phelan.    New York: W.W. Norton, 1966, 143p. Available at: HM

812 Sher
Abe Lincoln in Illinois: A Play in Twelve Scenes, by Robert E. Sherwood.     New York:  C. Scribner’s Son’s, 1965, 250p. Available at: CC

K 973.7 Jenn
The Humorous Mr. Lincoln, by Keith Warren Jennison.    New York: Crowell, 1965, 163p. Available at: HM

973.7 Doug
Mr. Lincoln & the Negroes: the Long Road to Equality, by William O. Douglas.    New York: Atheneum, 1963, 237p. Available at: CC

812.52 Vand
Last Days of Lincoln: A Play in Six Scenes, by Mark Van Doren.     New York: Hill and Wang, 1959, 152p. Available at: HM

973.738 Ster
An End to Valor: The Last Days of the Civil War, by Philip Van Doren Stern.  
 Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958, 418p. Available at: CC

K 973.7469 Town
Lincoln and the Bluegrass, by William Townsend.    Lexington Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 1955, 392p. Available at: HM & CC

J 909 Fost
Abraham Lincoln’s World, 1809 – 1865, by Genevieve Foster.    New York: Scribner, 1944, 347p. Available at: CC

973.7092 Swan
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, by James L. Swanson.  New York: Scholastic Press, 2009, 194p. Available at: HM

973.9092 flod
1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History, by Charles Bracelen Flood.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009, 521p. Available at: HM

K 973.7 Alle
Mr. Lincoln’s High-Tech War: How the North used the Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Ironclades, High-Powered Weapons and more to win the Civil War, by Thomas Allen.  Washington, DC:  National Geographic, 2008, 144p.
Available at: HM

K 973.7092 Symo
Lincoln and his Admirals, by Craig L. Symonds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, 430p. Available at: HM

K 973.7092 Kran
Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President, by Thomas L. Krannawitter.  Lanham: MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008, 355p.
Available at: HM

K 973.7092 Holz
In Lincoln’s Hand: His Original Manuscripts, by Abraham Lincoln.  1809-1865, New York: Bantam Dell, 2009, 196p. Available at: HM

K 973.7 Linc
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now, edited by Harold Holzer.  New York,  NY: Library of America, 2009, 944p.
Available at: HM

370.973 Wolf
How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations that made them, Daniel Wolff, New York: Bloomsbury, 2009, 345p. Available at: HM

KJ 973.7092 Herb
Abraham Lincoln for Kids: His Life and Time with 21 Activities, by Janis Herbert. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2007, 149p.

Fiction

(“J ” is juvenile fiction and “ P ” is primary)

Ston
Love is Eternal: A novel  about Mary Todd Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln, by Irving Stone.    Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1954, 468p. Available at: HM

Morr
Great Captain: Three Lincoln novels, by Honore' Willsie Morrow.     New York: Morrow, 1969, 668p. Available at: HM

Hamb
The Emancipation Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln, by Barbara Hambly.    New York: Bantam Books, 2005, 608p. Available at: HM

J Cava
Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance, by France's Cavanah.    Chicago: Rand McNally, 1959, 92p. Available at: CC

J Pink
Abraham Lincoln: Letters from a Slave Girl, by Andrea Davis Pinkney.   
Delray Beach Fl.: Winslow Press, 2001, 136p. Available at: HM

J Monj
Gettysburg: Tad Lincoln’s Story, by F.N. Monjo.    New York: Windmill Books, 1976, 48p. Available at: CC

Slot
Abe: A novel, by Richard Slotkin.    New York: H. Holt and Co., 2000, 478p. Available at: CC

Rina
An Acquaintance With Darkness, by Ann Rinaldi.    San Diego, California: Harcourt Brace, 1997, 294p. Available at: HM & CC

P Bren
Abe Lincoln’s Hat, by Martha Brenner.    New York: Random House, 1994, 48p. Available at: HM & CC

KJ Maze
My Brother Abe: Sally Lincoln’s Story, by Harry Mazer.  New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009, 202p. Available at: HM

Mall
Henry and Clara, by Thomas Mallon.    New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1994 358p. Available at: HM

Safi
Freedom, by William Safire.    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987, 1125p. Available at: HM

Vida
Lincoln: a novel, by Gore Vidal.   New York: Random House, 1984, 657p. Available at: HM & CC

Reference Books

R 976.9003
The Kentucky Encyclopedia is found in our Local History and Genealogy annex. It has information about Mary Todd Lincoln. You may also find information about Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln in the vertical file, also at the annex.

R 973 Haki V.II
Source Book and Index: Documents that Shaped the American Nation this Reference book is found at Harbin Memorial Library. It includes information on the Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation and Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address.

For your entertainment or just for listening pleasure, the library offers Videos, DVD’s and Audio books about Abraham Lincoln.

VC-Video
Cass- Audio Cassette
CD Book
DVD

VC Abra
Abraham Lincoln, Irving, Texas: Warner- Nest Animation, (Animated Hero Classics), 1993, 1 videocassette 30min. Available at: HM

VC Abra
Abraham Lincoln, Atlas Video, c.1990, 1 videocassette, 35min. Not rated.
Available at: HM

DVD Lino
Lincoln and Lee at Antietam: the cost of freedom, Pittsburgh, PA. Ineocom Entertainment Company, c.2005, 1 DVD, 90 min. Available at: HM

DVD Linc
Lincoln: I too, am a Kentuckian. KET, 2 DVD’s , 2hrs.Lexington, Ky. 2008.

Cas 685
Lincoln’s Prose: Major  Works of a Great American Writer (1809 – 1865), Lincoln, Abraham. Falls Church, Virginia: Sound Room Pub., 1995, 2 sound cassettes, 2 ¾ hrs. Available at: HM

Cas 686
Lincoln’s Letters: The Private Man and the Warrior ( 1836 – 1846), Lincoln, Abraham. Falls Church, Virginia: Sound Room Pub., 1995, unabridged; 2 sound cassettes, 2 ¾ hrs. Available at: HM

Cas 2287
Savannah Or A Gift For Lincoln, by John Jakes.    New York:  Simon & Schuster,2004, abridged; 4 sound cassettes, 6hrs. Available at: HM

CD Book Conn
The Lincoln Lawyer, by Michael Connelly.    Westminster, MD: Books on tape, 2005, unabridged; 10 compact discs. Available at: CC

J CD Book Giov
Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship, by Nikki Giovanni.  New York: Scholastic, 2009, 1- 32p. book + 1 Compact Disc + 1 Hanging Bag. Available at: HM

The Library staff can also help you find other references or materials about Abraham Lincoln.