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Journal . Volume 43, Issue 1 & 2: 2022
Issue 1: Spring
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- Will the Real Mr. Lincoln Please Stand Up?: “Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times”, by David S. Reynolds; “Summoned to Glory: The Audacious Life of Abraham Lincoln”, by Richard Striner
- The Cordelia Harvey Manuscript. Part I
- Contributors to this Issue
- “Jackson Redivivus” in Lincoln’s First Inaugural
- The Matter of Fees is Important
- “Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s Scandalous Secretary of War”, by Paul Kahan
Issue 2: Fall
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- Cordelia Harvey Manuscript. Part II
- Contributors to this Issue
- “The Most Interesting Document Lincoln Ever Wrote”
- Lessons Learned: The Influence on Lincoln of Alexander II’s Emancipation of Russian Serfs
- The Broken Constitution, by Noah Feldman
- A House Built By Slaves, by Jonathan W. White
- An American Marriage, by Michael Burlingame
- The Black Man’s President, by Michael Burlingame
- Extending the Hand of Democracy
Journal . Volume 42, Issue 1 & 2: 2021
Issue 1: Winter
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- Contributors to this Issue
- Surveying a New Lincoln Survey
- President Lincoln’s Meetings with African Americans
- “The Animal Himself”: Tracing the Volk Lincoln Sculptures. Part II
- “Lincoln, Seward, and US Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era”, by Joseph A. Fry
- “Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln and the Union’s War Governors”, by Stephen D. Engle
- “Lincoln’s White House: The People’s House in Wartime”, by James B. Conroy
- “The Photographer and the President: Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Gardner, and the Images that Made a Presidency”, by Richard S. Lowry
- Expanding the Definition of Freedom: “Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment”, by Christian G. Samito; “Lincoln and the Immigrant”, by Jason H. Silverman
Issue 2: Fall
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- Contributors to this Issue
- Lincoln and the First Corruption of Illinois
- Abraham Lincoln’s Republic of Rules: The Logic of Labor, the Labor of Logic
- Vindicating Lincoln: Presidential Patronage, the “Sultana” Disaster, and the Cairo Claims Commission
- J. David Hacker’s “A Census-Based Count of the Civil War Dead”
- “Lincoln’s Informer: Charles A. Dana and the Inside Story of the Union War”, by Carl J. Guarneri
- “Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy”, by Michael E. Woods
- Works on the Civil War Congress: “Lincoln and Congress”, by William C. Davis; “Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America”, by Fergus M. Bordewich
Journal . Volume 41, Issue 1 & 2: 2020
Issue 1: Winter
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- Contributors to this Issue
- The Secession Crisis Diary of Gideon Welles
- Lincoln, Euclid, and the Satisfaction of Success
- How Many “Lincoln Bibles”?
- Lincoln in the Atlantic World, by Louise L. Stevenson
- Mourning Lincoln, by Martha Hodes
- Lincoln before “Lincoln”: Early Cinematic Adaptations of the Life of America’s Greatest President, by Brian J. Snee
- Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War, by Fred Kaplan
Issue 2: Summer
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- Contributors to this Issue
- “My Beau Ideal of a Statesman”: Abraham Lincoln’s Eulogy on Henry Clay
- “The Animal Himself”: Tracing the Volk Lincoln Sculptures. Part I
- African Americans at White House Receptions During Lincoln’s Administration. Part I
- Lincoln and Shakespeare, by Michael A. Anderegg
- Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons, by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
- A Just and Generous Nation: Abraham Lincoln and the Fight for American Opportunity, by Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle
- Lincoln’s Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion, by Louis P. Masur
- Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History, by Richard Wightman Fox
- Lincoln’s Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton, by William Marvel
- Old Whigs: Burke, Lincoln, and the Politics of Prudence, by Greg Weiner
- Lincoln’s Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency, by Dan Abrams and David Fisher
Journal . Volume 40, Issue 1 & 2: 2019
Issue 1: Winter
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- Contributors to this Issue
- The Dedication of the Living: Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Abraham Lincoln in Chicago and London
- Belonging to the Ages: The Enduring Relevance of Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait
- Roundtable: Lincoln and Public History
- Lincoln’s Sense of Humor, by Richard Carwardine
- A Lincoln Dialogue, by James A. Rawley
- Lincoln’s Political Thought, by George Kateb
- Lawyer Lincoln, Case By Case Abraham Lincoln’s Most Famous Case: The Almanac Trial, by George R. Dekle, Sr. and Lincoln’s Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America, by Brian McGinty
- Tearing Down Slavery and the Confederacy Lincoln and the Military, by John F. Marszalek and Lincoln and Emancipation, by Edna Greene Medford
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Issue 2: Summer
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- Contributors to This Issue
- The Meaning of Lincoln’s “Such a Sucker as Me”
- Lincoln’s New Salem, Revisited
- Lincoln’s New Salem, Reconstructed
- Redeeming the Great Emancipator, by Allen C. Guelzo
- The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs: Lincoln’s General, Master Builder of the Union Army, by Robert O’Harrow, Jr.
- Who Freed the Slaves? The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment, by Leonard L. Richards
- A Woman’s Place in the Nineteenth Century – Fanny Seward: A Life, by Trudy Krisher; and Mary Lincoln: Southern Girl, Northern Woman, by Stacy Pratt McDermott
- Books Received
Journal . Volume 39, Issue 1 & 2: 2018
Issue 1
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- Contributors to this Issue
- New Year’s Day 1841: A Puzzling Triptych
- “A Just Application of Democratic Principles”: The Fiscal Conservatism of Salmon P. Chase
- Reconstruction as a Pure Bourgeois Revolution
- Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln’s Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, D.C., by Kenneth J. Winkle
- Abraham Lincoln Association 2017 Members
Issue 2
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- Contributors to this Issue
- Evaluating Lincoln’s Patented Invention
- Seeking God’s Will: President Lincoln and Rev. Dr. Gurley
- The Presidential Pardon Records of the Lincoln Administration
- Lincoln & Liberty: Wisdom for the Ages, edited by Lucas A. Morel
- Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and the Civil War: “A Trial of Principle and Faith”, by William C. Kashatus
- Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference, by James B. Conroy
- Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth, by Terry Alford
- Herndon on Lincoln: Letters, edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis
Journal . Volume 38, Issue 1 & 2: 2017
Issue 1
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- Contributors to this Issue
- Robert Todd Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Story”
- “Home is the Martyr”: The Burial of Abraham Lincoln and the Fate of Illinois’s Capital
- “Had Mr. Lincoln Lived”: Alternate Histories, Reconstruction, Race, and Memory
- The Drama of Liberty, Equality, and Self-Government at Gettysburg
- Lincoln’s Last Days
- A Finger in Lincoln’s Brain: What Modern Science Reveals about Lincoln, His Assassination, and Its Aftermath, by E. Lawrence Abel
- Abraham Lincoln Association 2016 Members
Issue 2
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- Contributors to this Issue
- “The Spirit Which You Have Aided to Infuse”: A. Lincoln, Little Mac, Fighting Joe, and the Question of Accountability in Union Command Relations
- McClellan Redux? The Often-Reported, Imminent Return of Little Mac
- The Lincoln-McClellan Relationship in Myth and Memory
- Here I Have Lived
- A (Suppressed) Ballot is Stronger than the Bullet
Journal . Volume 37, Issue 1 & 2: 2016
Issue 1
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- Contributors to this Issue
- Lincoln’s Legacy of Justice and Equality of Opportunity: Our Challenge a Century and a Half Later
- Native Americans and the Origins of Abraham Lincoln’s Views on Race
- Building a Twenty-First Century Lincoln Memorial: The Digital Revolution in Lincoln Studies Scholarship
- Your Friend, As Ever, A. Lincoln: How the Unlikely Friendship of Gustave Koerner and Abraham Lincoln Changed America, by Donald Allendorf
- From Latin America to the Battle of the Crater Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America, by Robert E. May and Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops, by John David Smith
- The War Worth Fighting For: Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency and Civil War America, edited by Stephen D. Engle
- Getting Right with Lincoln vs. Getting Lincoln Right Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present, by John McKee Barr and Lincoln’s Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln’s Image, by Joshua Zeitz
- All The Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, by John Taliaferro
- Abraham Lincoln Association (2015)
Issue 2
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- Contributors to this Issue
- Gone and Forgotten: Abraham Lincoln through the English Eyes of Tom Taylor and John Drinkwater
- Harriet Monroe’s Abraham Lincoln
- Harry V. Jaffa’s Contribution to Lincoln Studies and American Statesmanship
- We Called Him Father Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, a Documentary History, by Gary Phillip Zola; Lincoln and the Jews: A History, by Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell
- The Civil War Diaries of Gideon Welles, Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy: The Original Manuscript Edition, by William E. and Erica L. Gienapp, eds.
- 1863: Lincoln’s Pivotal Year, by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard
Journal . Volume 36, Issue 1 & 2: 2015
Issue 1
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- Contributors to this Issue
- Abraham Lincoln’s Cyphering Book and the Abbaco Tradition
- In the Shadow of the Little Giant: Lincoln before the Great Debates
- When Lincoln Borrowed a Book He Didn’t Like
- Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman by Joseph R. Fornieri
- The Mary Lincoln Enigma: Historians on America’s Most Controversial First Lady, edited by Frank J. Williams and Michael Burkhimer
- Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power, by Kevin Peraino
- Abraham Lincoln Association (2014)
Issue 2
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- Contributors to this Issue
- The Founding Fathers and the Election of 1864
- Icy Blasts to Balmy Airs: British North America and Lincoln’s Assassination
- Roundtable: The Better Angels
- Publishing by Littles: Lincoln by “Littles” by Lewis E. Lehrman, Lincoln and Religion by Ferenc Morton Szasz, and Margaret Connell Szasz
- Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion by Harold Holzer
- Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History by John Fabian Witt
- Negotiating and Navigating: Lincoln, the Union Governors, and Reconstruction; Lincoln and the Union Governors by William C. Harris; Lincoln and Reconstruction by John C. Rodrigue
- With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era by William A. Blair
Journal . Volume 35, Issue 1 & 2: 2014
Issue 1
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- Contributors to this Issue
- Classical Rhetoric as a Lens for Reading the Key Speeches of Lincoln’s Political Rise, 1852–1856
- F. Lauriston Bullard: Lincoln Scholar, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Book Thief
- Holding Up a Flawed Mirror to the American Soul: Abraham Lincoln in the Writings of Lerone Bennett, Jr.
- The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner
- Lincoln’s Battle with God: A President’s Struggle with Faith and What it Meant for America, by Stephen Mansfield
- An Afflicted Hero? Lincoln and Medicine, by Glenna Schroeder-Lein and Lincoln as Hero by Frank J. Williams
- Abraham Lincoln Association (2013)
Issue 2
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- Contributors to this Issue
- William H. Herndon on Lincoln’s Fatalism
- “Simply a Theist”: Herndon on Lincoln’s Religion
- “Not Even Wrong”: Herndon and His Informants
- Why a New Biography of William Herndon Is Needed
- Exploring Lincoln the Lawyer: Lincoln’s Ladder to the Presidency: The Eighth Judicial Circuit, by Guy C. Fraker and Lincoln’s Forgotten Friend: Leonard Swett, by Robert S. Eckley
- The Mind of Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman, by David Lowenthal
- Revisiting the Irrepressible Conflict: We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860–April 1861, by William J. Cooper and Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War, by Rachel Sheldon
- Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865, by James Oakes
- Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Journal . Volume 34, Issue 1 & 2: 2013
Issue 1
- Abraham Lincoln Association
- Contributors to this Issue
- Does Lincoln Still Belong to the Ages?
- The Lost Cause of the North: A Reflection on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural
- Abraham Lincoln’s Religion: The Case for His Ultimate Belief in a Personal, Sovereign God
- Lincoln and His Books: Reading with Lincoln, by Robert Bray
- Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828–1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History, by Richard Campanella
- Abraham Lincoln Association (2011)
Issue 2
- Abraham Lincoln Association
- Contributors to this Issue
- “A Death-shock to Chivalry, and a Mortal Wound to Caste”: The Story of Tad and Abraham Lincoln in Richmond
- “Mechem” or “Mack”: How a One-Word Correction in the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Reveals the Truth about an 1856 Political Event
- “Solving a Lincoln Literary Mystery: ‘Little Eddie’”
- Lincoln’s Worldwide Audience: The Global Lincoln, edited by Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton
- Lincoln and the Civil War, by Michael Burlingame
- Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley, by Gregory Borchard
- Abraham and Mary Lincoln, by Kenneth J. Winkle
- Usher the Influence?: Lincoln Apostate: The Matson Slave Case, by Charles R. McKirdy
- The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln, by Kate Clifford Larson
Journal . Volume 33, Issue 1 & 2: 2012
Issue 1
- Abraham Lincoln Association
- Contributors to this Issue
- Does Lincoln Still Belong to the Ages?
- The Lost Cause of the North: A Reflection on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural
- Abraham Lincoln’s Religion: The Case for His Ultimate Belief in a Personal, Sovereign God
- Lincoln and His Books: Reading with Lincoln, by Robert Bray
- Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828–1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History, by Richard Campanella
- Abraham Lincoln Association (2011)
Issue 2
- Abraham Lincoln Association
- Contributors to this Issue
- “A Death-shock to Chivalry, and a Mortal Wound to Caste”: The Story of Tad and Abraham Lincoln in Richmond
- “Mechem” or “Mack”: How a One-Word Correction in the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Reveals the Truth about an 1856 Political Event
- “Solving a Lincoln Literary Mystery: ‘Little Eddie’”
- Lincoln’s Worldwide Audience: The Global Lincoln, edited by Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton
- Lincoln and the Civil War, by Michael Burlingame
- Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley, by Gregory Borchard
- Abraham and Mary Lincoln, by Kenneth J. Winkle
- Usher the Influence?: Lincoln Apostate: The Matson Slave Case, by Charles R. McKirdy
- The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln, by Kate Clifford Larson
Journal . Volume 32, Issue 1 & 2: 2011
Issue 1
- Abraham Lincoln Association
- Contributors to this Issue
- His Loyal Opposition: Lincoln’s Border States’ Critics
- The Fire-Eaters and Seward Lincoln
- Lincoln’s Critics: The Copperheads
- How Great Was Lincoln? Two New Biographies Abraham Lincoln, by James M. McPherson, and Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, by Allen C. Guelzo
- Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, by David R. Contosta, and Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, by Adam Gopnik
- Lincoln’s Political Generals, by David Work
- Abraham Lincoln Association (2010)
Issue 2
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- Contributors to this Issue
- Battle for the War Department Rewards for the Capture of John Wilkes Booth
- Herndon’s “Auction List” and Lincoln’s Interest in Science
- James Mitchell and the Mystery of the Emigration Office Papers
- A New Lincoln Legal History: The First Generation. A. Lincoln Esquire, a Shrewed, Sophisticated Lawyer in his Time, by Allen D. Spiegel, An Honest Calling: the Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln, by Mark E. Steiner, and Lincoln the Lawyer, by Brian Dirck
- The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases, by Daniel W. Stowell et al.
- Abraham Lincoln: The Image of His Greatness, by Fred Reed
Journal . Volume 31, Issue 1 & 2: 2010
Issue 1
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- Contributors to this Issue
- The Other Lincoln-Douglas Debate: The Race Issue in a Comparative Context
- A Bill of Lading Delivers the Goods: The Constitutionality and Effect of the Emancipation Proclamation
- Telling the Story of “The Ages”: Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon, by Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, and Peter W. Kunhardt Jr., and Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America, by Barry Schwartz
- Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President, by Thomas L. Krannawitter
- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The Lincoln Studies Center Edition, edited by Rodney O. Davis and Douglas L. Wilson
- “What Shall We Do with the Negro?” Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America, by Paul D. Escott
- Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point, by Lewis E. Lehrman
- Abraham Lincoln Association (2009)
Issue 2
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- Contributors to this Issue
- Views of the Wigwam Convention: Letters from the Son of Lincoln’s 1856 Candidate
- “One of the Best Women I Ever Knew”: Abraham Lincoln and Rebecca Pomeroy
- The Ann Rutledge Story: Case Closed?
- The Challenge of Biography: What do they know of Lincoln who only Lincoln know?
- Lincoln and His Admirals, by Craig L. Symonds
- Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860–61, by Harold Holzer
