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For The People: The ALA Newsletter

The Abraham Lincoln Association created For The People as a newsletter devoted to the rich history and complex legacy of Abraham Lincoln.

Each linked volume below presented as a PDF.

Volume 25 [2023]

Spring 2023: Lincoln and Lord Hartington

Summer 2023: Fire in the Hold!

Volume 24 [2022]
For The People, 2022
Spring 2022: June 21, New Date for Symposium and Banquet
Summer 2022: The First Person to Describe the Lincolns’ Cottage Was …
Fall 2022: Old Bob and the Coachman — A New Wrinkle
Winter 2022: Sidney Blumenthal to Address Banquet
Volume 23 [2021]
For The People, 2021
Spring 2021: Who Will Employ an Old-Line Whig?
Summer 2021: Mary Lincoln Punishes Her Sons
Fall 2021: Osborn H. Oldroyd, the New-Century Pedestrian
Winter 2021: Jon Meacham Banquet Speaker
Volume 22 [2020]
The Lincolns at the Globe Tavern
Spring 2020: Ray LaHood Urges “No More Politics”
Summer 2020: The Lincolns at the Globe Tavern
Fall 2020: ALA Undertakes Major New Project
Winter 2020: 2021 Lincoln Day Speaker
Volume 21 [2019]
Discovery of Unknown 1859 Lincoln Drawing
Spring 2019: Discovery of Unknown Lincoln Drawing
Summer 2019: ALA Supports LEAD Program for Youth
Fall 2019: Changes at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Winter 2019: Ray LaHood, 2020 Birthday Banquet Speaker
Volume 20 [2018]
ALA Board Tours Lincoln’s New Salem
Spring 2018: Lewis E. Lehrman Receives Logan Hay Medal
Summer 2018: ALA Board Tours Lincoln’s New Salem
Fall / Winter 2018: Best-selling author Dan Abrams 2019 Banquet Speaker
Volume 19 [2017]
Abraham Lincoln’s First Visit to Hampton Roads
Spring 2017: Governor Bruce Rauner Addresses 2017 ALA Banquet
Summer 2017: Abraham Lincoln’s First Visit to Hampton Roads
Fall 2017: The Bixby Letter
Winter 2017: Richard Carwardine — 2018 Annual Banquet Speaker
Volume 18 [2016]
William Freeman
Spring 2016: Abraham Lincoln’s “Forgotten” Act to Encourage Immigration
Summer 2016: ALA Makes Major Gift to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
Fall 2016: William Freeman, Found
Winter 2016: Governor Bruce Rauner – 2017 Banquet Speaker
Volume 17 [2015]
A Psalm to our Martyred President Abraham Lincoln, Delivered by Frederick Douglass on June 1, 1865 (Performed by Fred Morsell on February 12, 2015)
Spring 2015: A Psalm To Our Martyred President Abraham Lincoln
Summer 2015: Commemoration of 150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Springfield Funeral
Fall 2015: At 31, Lincoln Falls For Matilda, 18
Winter 2015: Bernice A. King – 2016 Banquet Speaker – Daughter of Coretta Scott King and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
Volume 16 [2014]
Historic Oak Ridge Cemetery Original Entrance
Spring 2014: Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address
Summer 2014: The Lincoln Ox Yoke at the University of Illinois
Fall 2014: Did Lincoln Dream He Died?
Winter 2014: Banquet Performance: Frederick Douglass’ Eulogy to Lincoln Re-enacted by Fred Morsell
Volume 15 [2013]
Abraham Lincoln in Goshen Indiana’s 1860 Campaign Banner
Spring 2013: Abraham Lincoln in Goshen Indiana’s 1860 Campaign Banner
Summer 2013: Juan Rafael Mora and Abraham Lincoln: Men of Steel (1921-2012)
Fall 2013: John Hay Reports on Events at Gettysburg
Winter 2013: Thomas F. Schwartz – 2014 BANQUET SPEAKER
Volume 14 [2012]
For The People: Spring 2012
Spring 2012: Sarah Thomas Endows Lincoln Symposium Honoring Her Father Benjamin P. Thomas
Summer 2012: Jane Lennon Remembers Her Father Robert S. Eckley (1921-2012)
Fall 2012: Georgia Northrup (1922-2012)
Winter 2012: Stephen L. Carter 2013 Banquet Speaker
Volume 13 [2011]
Abraham Lincoln
Spring 2011: “It Is Begun!” Mclean County Reacts to Ft. Sumter and Prepares for Civil War
Summer 2011: Lincoln and the Panics
Fall 2011: The Incredible Collectable: Lincoln’s Inscribed Debates
Winter 2011: Senator Richard J. Durbin – 2012 Banquet Speaker
Volume 12 [2010]
This photograph of the north side of the Public Square in Springfield, Illinois, circa 1860, was taken by Springfield photogra- pher Frederick W. Ingmire from the cupola of the State House, now the Old State Capitol
Spring 2010: Newly Discovered Photographs of Lincoln’s Springfield
Summer 2010: Lincoln’s Springfield: Photograph of Historic Mather Residence
Fall 2010: Axes and Ancestry: Lincoln Never Said That
Winter 2010: Lincoln and the Leadership Follies
Volume 11 [2009]
President Obama Speaks at Lincoln’s 200th Birthday Dinner
Spring 2009: President Obama Speaks at Lincoln’s 200th Birthday Dinner 
Summer 2009: Lincoln Aroused: His Outrage Over the Kansas – Nebraska Act
Fall 2009: David Herbert Donald: a Life Remembered 1920-2009
Winter 2009: Harold Holzer – 2010 Banquet Speaker
Volume 10 [2008]
Lincoln "Press Conference"
Spring 2008: Memories of My Father, Benjamin P. Thomas

Summer 2008: A Little-known Eyewitness Account From the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Senate Campaign

Fall 2008: The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases
Winter 2008: Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln!
Volume 9 [2007]
Abraham Lincoln II, "Jack"
Spring 2007: The Other Side of Mary Lincoln – Part 2
Summer 2007: Springfield Campaign Rally of August 8 , 1860 : Two Recollections
Fall 2007: A Death in the family Abraham Lincoln II “Jack” (1873-1890) 
Winter 2007: Abraham Lincoln Symposium – An American Dream Concert
Volume 8 [2006]
Mary Todd Lincoln
Spring 2006: Lincoln’s Springfield – The Underground Railroad
Summer 2006: Lincoln’s Springfield – The Underground Railroad – Part 2
Fall 2006: Were Lincoln’s Aspirations for the Highest Court Thwarted by Politics?
Winter 2006: The Other Side of Mary Lincoln – Part 1
Volume 7 [2005]
Lincoln Sculpture by Sculptor Leonard Crunelle, located in Freeport, Illinois
Spring 2005: Mariah (Bartlett) Vance, Daytime Servant to the Lincolns – Part 2
Summer 2005: Dr. Hans Trefousse and the Writing of History
Fall 2005: A New Look at “You Can Fool All of the People”
Winter 2005: The Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas Joint Debates and the Communication of the Newspaper
Volume 6 [2004]
Frederick Douglass
Spring 2004: Lincoln’s “Suicide” Poem: Has It Been Found?
Summer 2004: Money and Campaigns in the Lincoln Era
Fall 2004: Prominent Abolitionists on Abraham Lincoln
Winter 2004: Mariah (Bartlett) Vance, Daytime Servant to the Lincolns – Part 1
Volume 5 [2003]
Abraham Lincoln, 1862
Spring 2003: Lincoln Never Said That; Abraham Lincoln, Cockfighting, and Animal Rights
Summer 2003: Keller Family Donation Honors Association
Fall 2003: Another Curiosity from the Henry Horner Lincoln Collection
Winter 2003: “You Can Fool All of the People”; Lincoln Never Said That
Volume 4 [2002]
Lincoln’s Second Inauguration
Spring 2002: Lincoln’s Second Inauguration
Summer 2002: Illinois Ideological Battlegound of the Nation
Fall 2002: Class Project The Distribution of Schools Named
Winter 2002: Another Look at Abraham Lincoln as a Lobbyist
Volume 3 [2001]
Lincoln Portraits: An Interpretive Framework
Spring 2001: Lincoln Portraits: An Interpretive Framework
Summer 2001: Mr. Lincoln and Mrs. Partington
Fall 2001: Did the Lincoln Family Employ a Slave in 1849 – 1850?
Winter 2001: A History of the Lincoln Group of New York
Volume 2 [2000]
Ten “True Lies” About Abraham Lincoln Part 1
Spring 2000: Mary Lincoln and the Swings
Summer 2000: Ten “True Lies” About Abraham Lincoln Part 1
Fall 2000: Another Questioned Lincoln Photograph
Winter 2000: Abraham Lincoln Association Endowment Progress
Volume 1 [1999]
The Bixby Letter
Spring 1999: Abraham Lincoln, John Hay, and the Bixby Letter
Summer 1999: Beware the Ides of March
Fall 1999: The First Slave Freed by Abraham Lincoln

Winter 1999: Will the Real Jack Kelso Please Stand Up?

To observe each anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln; to preserve and make more readily accessible the landmarks associated with his life; and to actively encourage, promote and aid the collection and dissemination of authentic information regarding all phases of his life and career.

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