


For The People
The Abraham Lincoln Association was organized in 1908 to spearhead the national celebration of Lincoln's one hundredth birthday. Today the Association continues this tradition by bringing in distinguished speakers to commemorate Lincoln's birthday, and presents an afternoon Symposium featuring leading Lincoln scholars. The Symposium is free and open to the public.
For The People
Volume 1 - 1999
For The People
Volume 2 - 2000
- Mary Lincoln and the Swings - Spring 2000
- Ten “True Lies ” About Abraham Lincoln Part 1 - Summer 2000
- Another Questioned Lincoln Photograph - Fall 2000
- Abraham Lincoln Association Endowment Progress - Winter 2000
For The People
Volume 3 - 2001
- Lincoln Portraits: An Interpretive Framework - Spring 2001
- Mr. Lincoln and Mrs. Partington - Summer 2001
- Did the Lincoln Family Employ a Slave in 1849 – 1850? - Fall 2001
- A History of the Lincoln Group of New York - Winter 2001
For The People
Volume 4 - 2002
- Lincoln’s Second Inauguration - Spring 2002
- Illinois Ideological Battlegound of the Nation - Summer 2002
- Class Project The Distribution of Schools Named After Abraham Lincoln - Fall 2002
- Another Look at Abraham Lincoln as a Lobbyist - Winter 2002
For The People
Volume 5 - 2003
For The People
Volume 6 - 2004
- Lincoln’s “Suicide” Poem: Has It Been Found? - Spring 2004
- Money and Campaigns in the Lincoln Era - Summer 2004
- Prominent Abolitionists on Abraham Lincoln - Fall 2004
- Mariah (Bartlett) Vance, Daytime Servant to the Lincolns - Part 1 - Winter 2004
For The People
Volume 7 - 2005
For The People
Volume 8 - 2006
- Lincoln’s Springfield - The Underground Railroad - Spring 2006
- Lincoln’s Springfield - The Underground Railroad - Part 2 - Summer 2006
- Were Lincoln’s Aspirations for the Highest Court Thwarted by Politics? - Fall 2006
- The Other Side of Mary Lincoln - Part 1 - Winter 2006
For The People
Volume 9 - 2007
- The Other Side of Mary Lincoln - Part 2 - Spring 2007
- Springfield Campaign Rally of August 8 , 1860 : Two Recollections - Summer 2007
- A Death in the family Abraham Lincoln II “Jack” (1873-1890) - Fall 2007
- Abraham Lincoln Symposium - An American Dream Concert - The Abraham Lincoln Association Banquet - Winter 2007
For The People
Volume 10 - 2008
- Memories of My Father, Benjamin P. Thomas - Spring 2008
- A Little-known Eyewitness Account From the 1858 Lincoln-douglas Senate Campaign - Summer 2008
- The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases - Fall 2008
- Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln! - Winter 2008
For The People
Volume 11 - 2009
- President Obama Speaks at Lincoln’s 200th Birthday Dinner - Spring 2009
- Lincoln Aroused: His Outrage Over the Kansas - Nebraska Act - Summer 2009
- David Herbert Donald: a Life Remembered 1920-2009 - Fall 2009
- Harold Holzer - 2010 Banquet Speaker - Winter 2009
For The People
Volume 12 - 2010
- Newly Discovered Photographs of Lincoln’s Springfield - Spring 2010
- Lincoln’s Springfield: Photograph of Historic Mather Residence - Summer 2010
- Axes and Ancestry: Lincoln Never Said That - Fall 2010
- Lincoln and the Leadership Follies - Winter 2010
For The People
Volume 13 - 2011
- “It Is Begun!” Mclean County Reacts to Ft. Sumter and Prepares for Civil War - Spring 2011
- Lincoln and the Panics - Summer 2011
- The Incredible Collectable: Lincoln’s Inscribed Debates - Fall 2011
- Senator Richard J. Durbin - 2012 Banquet Speaker - Winter 2011
For The People
Volume 14 - 2012
- Sarah Thomas Endows Lincoln Symposium Honoring Her Father Benjamin P. Thomas - Spring 2012
- Jane Lennon Remembers Her Father Robert S. Eckley (1921-2012) - Summer 2012
- Georgia Northrup (1922-2012) - Fall 2012
- Stephen L. Carter 2013 Banquet Speaker - Winter 2012
For The People
Volume 15 - 2013
- Abraham Lincoln in Goshen Indiana’s 1860 Campaign Banner - Spring 2013
- Juan Rafael Mora and Abraham Lincoln: Men of Steel(1921-2012) - Summer 2013
- John Hay Reports on Events at Gettysburg - Fall 2013
- Thomas F. Schwartz - 2014 BANQUET SPEAKER - Winter 2013
For The People
Volume 16 - 2014
- Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address - Spring 2014
- The Lincoln Ox Yoke at the University of Illinois - Summer 2014
- Did Lincoln Dream He Died? - Fall 2014
- Banquet Performance: Frederick Douglass' - Eulogy to Lincoln Re-enacted by Fred Morsell - Winter 2014
For The People
Volume 17 - 2015
- A Psalm To Our Martyred President Abraham Lincoln - Spring 2015
- Commemoration of 150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Springfield Funeral Summer 2015
- At 31, Lincoln Falls For Matilda, 18 - Fall 2015
- Bernice A. King - 2016 Banquet Speaker - Daughter of Coretta Scott King and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr - Winter 2015
For The People
Volume 18 - 2016
- Abraham Lincoln’s “Forgotten” Act to Encourage Immigration - Spring 2016
- ALA Makes Major Gift to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library - Summer 2016
- William Freeman, Found - Fall 2016
- Governor Bruce Rauner - 2017 Banquet Speaker - Winter 2016
For The People
Volume 19 - 2017
- Governor Bruce Rauner Addresses 2017 ALA Banquet - Spring 2017
- Abraham Lincoln’s First Visit to Hampton Roads - Summer 2017
- The Bixby Letter - Fall 2017
- Richard Carwardine — 2018 Annual Banquet Speaker - Winter 2017

Abraham Lincoln Association Publications
Since 1909, the Abraham Lincoln Assocation has published several serials and a number of books as part of its mission to support continued scholarship on Abraham Lincoln's life and world.
- The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,
1953 - Abraham Lincoln Association Serials
- Journal of the Abraham Lincoln
Association, 1979-present - Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, 1940-1952
- Lincoln Centennial Association Papers,
1924-1939 - Bulletin of the Abraham Lincoln
Association, 1923-1939 - Lincoln Centennial Association Addresses,
1909-1918 - Lincoln Monographs
Through the ongoing efforts of the Abraham Lincoln
Association, most of these materials are now available online in electronic form.
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