
Abraham Lincoln Association Publications
Since 1909, the Abraham Lincoln Association 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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For The People
The Abraham Lincoln Association created For The People as a newsletter devoted to the rich history and complex legacy of Abraham Lincoln.
FOR THE PEOPLE
Volume 1 - 1999
FOR THE PEOPLE
Volume 2 - 2000

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 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

Lincoln Never Said That; Abraham Lincoln, Cockfighting, and Animal Rights – Spring 2003
Keller Family Donation Honors Association – Summer 2003
Another Curiosity from the Henry Horner Lincoln Collection – Fall 2003
“You Can Fool All of the People”; Lincoln Never Said That – Winter 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
FOR THE PEOPLE
Volume 20 - 2018

Lewis E. Lehrman Receives Logan Hay Medal – Spring 2018
ALA Board Tours Lincoln’s New Salem – Summer 2018
Best-selling author Dan Abrams 2019 Banquet Speaker – Fall/Winter 2018
FOR THE PEOPLE
Volume 21 - 2019

Discovery of Unknown Lincoln Drawing – Spring 2019
ALA Supports LEAD Program for Youth – Summer 2019
Changes at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum – Fall 2019
Ray LaHood, 2020 Birthday Banquet Speaker – Winter 2019
FOR THE PEOPLE
Volume 22 - 2020
