The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association (JALA) is the only academic journal devoted exclusively to Lincoln scholarship. In addition to selected scholarly articles—on Lincoln in the popular media, for example, or British reactions to the War— the journal also features photographs and newly discovered Lincoln letters and documents.
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Journal . Volume 30, Issue 1 & 2: 2009
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- Before Cooper Union: Abraham Lincoln’s 1859 Cincinnati Speech and Its Impact on His Nomination
- Lincoln, Stowe, and the “Little Woman/Great War” Story: The Making, and Breaking, of a Great American Anecdote
- What Was Tad Lincoln’s Speech Problem?
- Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America, by Allen C. Guelzo
- Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency, by William C. Harris, and One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln’s Road to the Civil War, by John C. Waugh
- The First Lincoln-Douglas Debates, October 1854, by John A. Corry, and The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln’s Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America, by Roy Morris Jr.
- Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President, by Edward Steers Jr.
- Abraham Lincoln Association (2008)
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- Brief Encounter: A New York Cavalryman’s Striking Conversation with Abraham Lincoln
- New Records of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the 1854 Illinois State Fair: The Missouri Republican and the Missouri Democrat Report from Springfield
- Scouring the Text of Lamon’s Recollections
- Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race, by George M. Fredrickson
- House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War, by Stephen Berry
Journal . Volume 29, Issue 1 & 2: 2008
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- Benjamin Butler’s Colonization Testimony Reevaluated
- A Word Fitly Spoken
- Some Legal Myths About Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln: The Better Angel of Our Nature
- Stealing Lincoln’s Body, by Thomas J. Craughwell
- Lincoln and His World: The Early Years, Birth to Illinois Legislature, by Richard Lawrence Miller
- Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney, by James F. Simon
- Abraham Lincoln Association (2007)
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- “A living, creeping lie”: Abraham Lincoln on Popular Sovereignty
- Not Always Such a Whig: Abraham Lincoln’s Partisan Realignment in the 1850s
- Lincoln’s Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus: An Historical and Constitutional Analysis
- The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows, by Gabor Boritt
- The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics, by James Oakes
- The Madness of Mary Lincoln, by Jason Emerson
Journal . Volume 26, Issue 1 & 2: 2007
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- Wife versus Widow: Clashing Perspectives on Mary Lincoln’s Legacy
- “I’ll keep them in prison awhile …”: Abraham Lincoln and David Davis on Civil Liberties in Wartime
- Lincoln’s Pursuit of “Egalitarian Refinement”: Evidence from His Mahogany Sofa
- Lincoln’s Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis over Slavery, by Thomas E. Schneider
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- Donors to the Abraham Lincoln Association Endowment
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- Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of an Antislavery Nationalism
- What Abraham Lincoln Read—An Evaluative and Annotated List
- William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon’s Lincoln, edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis
- Lincoln’s American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives, edited by Kenneth L. Deutsch and Joseph R. Fornieri
Journal . Volume 25, Issue 1 & 2: 2006
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- Completing the Work of the Framers: Lincoln’s Constitutional Legacy
- Lincoln’s Construction of the Executive Power in the Secession Crisis
- The Transformation of the Lincoln Tomb
- The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words, by Ronald C. White Jr.
- Lincoln’s Last Night: Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth,and the Last 36 Hours Before the Assassination, by Alan Axelrod; American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies, by Michael W. Kauffman; Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by Edward Steers Jr.
- Abraham Lincoln Association (2005)
- Donors to the Abraham Lincoln Association Endowment
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- Lincoln and Negro Slavery: I Haven’t Got Time for the Pain
- Charnwood’s Lincoln: Biography as Civics Lesson
- Did Abraham Lincoln Sleep with His Bodyguard? Another Look at the Evidence
- Lincoln Scholarship and the Return of Intimacy
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Lincoln’s Speeches Reconsidered, by John Channing Briggs
- Abraham Lincoln, President-Elect: The Four Critical Months from Election to Inauguration, by Larry D. Mansch, and “First among Equals”: Abraham Lincoln’s Reputation during His Administration, by Hans L. Trefousse
Journal . Volume 24, Issue 1 & 2: 2005
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- Ann Rutledge in American Memory: Social Change and the Erosion of a Romantic Drama
- “Overwhelming Evidence” of a Lincoln-Ann Rutledge Romance?: Reexamining Rutledge Family Reminiscences
- Mary Todd’s 1835 Visit to Springfield, Illinois
- Lincoln, by Richard J. Carwardine
- Lincoln’s Last Months, by William C. Harris
- Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Him President, by John A. Corry
- Abraham Lincoln Association (2004)
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- Was Stephen A. Douglas Antislavery?
- The Howard Family Legacy at the Knob Creek Farm
- Sculptural Commemorations of Abraham Lincoln by Avard T. Fairbanks
- Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Allen C. Guelzo
- Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President, by Harold Holzer
- Lincoln’s War: The Untold Story of America’s Greatest President as Commander in Chief, by Geoffrey Perret
Journal . Volume 23, Issue 1 & 2: 2004
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- How Abe Lincoln Lost the Black Vote: Lincoln and Emancipation in the African American Mind
- Lincoln and Colonization: Policy or Propaganda?
- The Campaign Dial: A Premier Lincoln Campaign Paper, 1864
- The Real Lincoln Highway: The Forgotten Lincoln Circuit Markers
- Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics, by Stewart Winger
- Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography, by William Lee Miller; Lincoln’s Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural Address, by James Tackach; Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, by Ronald C. White, Jr.
- Abraham Lincoln Association (2003)
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- Albert J. Beveridge and Demythologizing Lincoln
- Acts of Remembrance: Mary Todd Lincoln and Her Husband’s Memory
- A More Perfect Tribute Looking for Lincoln’s Philadelphia: A Personal Journey from Washington Square to Independence Hall
- “We are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends, by David Herbert Donald
- Abraham Lincoln’s Political Faith, by Joseph R. Fornieri
- Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography, by William E. Gienapp; Abraham Lincoln, by Thomas Keneally; Abraham Lincoln and a Nation Worth Fighting For, by James A. Rawley
Journal . Volume 22, Issue 1 & 2: 2003
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- Lincoln at the Millennium
- Lincoln the Dwarf: Lyon Gardiner Tyler’s War on the Mythical Lincoln
- An Illinois Iconoclast: Edgar Lee Masters and the Anti-Lincoln Tradition
- The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo; When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession, by Charles Adams
- Moonlight Offers Little Light
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- Who Stole the Gettysburg Address?
- Dr. Charles Leib: Lincoln’s Mole?
- Lincoln Essay Contests, Lincoln Medals, and the Commercialization of Lincoln
- Interpreting the Lincoln Memorial Landscape at Hodgenville, Kentucky: The Howell Family Heritage
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Journal . Volume 21, Issue 1 & 2: 2002
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- Holland’s Informants: The Construction of Josiah Holland’s ‘Life of Abraham Lincoln’
- An “Old-Fashioned” Nationalism: Lincoln, Jefferson, and the Classical Tradition
- The Strange Case Of Isaac Cogdal
- Lincoln’s Sacred Effort: Defining Religion’s Role in American Self-Government, by Lucas Morel
- Abraham Lincoln Association (2001)
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- Amateurs at War: Abraham Lincoln and the Committee on the Conduct of the War
- “To the Latest Generations”: Lincoln’s Use of Time, History, and the End Time, in Historical Context
- “A poor hand to quote Scripture”: Lincoln and Genesis 3:19
- Andrew Jackson Palsgrove: The Soldier Who Guarded Lincoln’s Body
- A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War, by Harry V. Jaffa
Journal . Volume 20, Issue 1 & 2: 2001
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- Lincoln’s Profound and Benign Americanism, or Nationalism Without Malice
- Owen Lovejoy and Abraham Lincoln During the Civil War
- The Nationalism of Abraham Lincoln Revisited
- Lincoln’s Economics and the American Dream: A Reappraisal
- Abraham Lincoln, Owen Lovejoy, and the Emergence of the Republican Party in Illinois
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Journal . Volume 19, Issue 1 & 2: 2000
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- Come-outers and Community Men: Abraham Lincoln and the Idea of Community in Nineteenth-Century America
- The Hampton Roads Peace Conference: A Final Test of Lincoln’s Presidential Leadership
- Lincoln and His Political Generals
- The Multimedia Lincoln
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- Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made Man
- Lincolniana in 1999
- A. Lincoln, Lobbyist
- Telling Lincoln’s Story
- Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger
- Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian, by Hans L. Trefousse
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Journal . Volume 18, Issue 1 & 2: 1999
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- Lincoln among the Reformers: Tempering the Temperance Movement
- Springfield’s African Americans as a Part of the Lincoln Community
- Sandburg’s Lincoln within History
- Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln’s Re-Election and the End of Slavery, by David E. Long; Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency, by John C. Waugh
- For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, by James M. McPherson
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- Dalby Revisited: A New Look at Lincoln’s “Most Far-Reaching Case” in the Illinois Supreme Court
- The Lincoln White House Community
- Lincolniana in 1998
- The Historian’s Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History, edited by Gabor S. Boritt
- “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me”: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth, edited by John Rhodehamel and Louise Taper; When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln: Southern Reaction to the Assassination, by Carolyn Harrell
Journal . Volume 17, Issue 1 & 2: 1998
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- Nicolay and Hay: Court Historians
- Lincoln’s “Particular Friend” and Lincoln Biography
- Isaac Newton Arnold, Lincoln’s Friend and Biographer
- Ida M. Tarbell: A Progressive Look at Lincoln
- Lincoln’s Unknown Private Life, edited by Lloyd Ostendorfand Walter Oleksy
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Journal . Volume 16, Issue 1 & 2: 1997
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- “Both … Pray to the Same God”: The Singularity of Lincoln’s Faith in the Era of the Civil War
- Lincoln, Evangelical Religion, and American Political Culture in the Era of the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln and the Doctrine of Necessity
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- Typhoid and Tumult: Lincoln’s Response to General McClellan’s Bout with Typhoid Fever during the Winter of 1861–62
- The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America, by Mark E. Neely Jr.
- Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War, by James M. McPherson
- Why the Civil War Came, edited by Gabor S. Boritt
- Lincolniana in 1996
- Abraham Lincoln Association (1997)
Journal . Volume 15, Issue 1 & 2: 1996
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- Abraham Lincoln and the DNA Controversy
- Guilt, Innocence, Faith, Forensic Science, and the Lincoln Forgeries
- The Secret Treason of Abraham Lincoln’s Brother-in-Law
- Unpublished Lincolniana
- The Comic News, Lincoln, and the Civil War
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- Unpublished Mary Todd Lincoln
- Salmon P. Chase and the Politics of Racial Reform
- The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, by Phillip Shaw Paludan
- The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, by Michael Burlingame and Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet, by Wayne C. Temple
- Lincolniana in 1995
- Abraham Lincoln Association (1996)
Journal . Volume 14, Issue 1 & 2: 1995
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- Lincoln and the Founding Fathers: A Reconsideration
- Lincoln on the Perpetuation of Republican Institutions: Whig and Republican Strategies
- Why Abraham Lincoln Was a Whig
- “The Power to Hurt”: Lincoln’s Early Use of Satire and Invective
- New Light on the Bixby Letter
- Lincoln and the Gettysburg Awakening
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