
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 over forty years, The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association has been the single most significant platform for research into, and about, Abraham Lincoln. Its articles and reviews abound in interest for anyone, from the oldest "Lincoln hand" to the newest student of our 16th President, and I never fail to look forward to the arrival of every issue. It has contributed immensely both to my own published work on Lincoln and to that of every other Lincoln scholar.
Allen Carl Guelzo, Princeton University
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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Volume 1 | 1979
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Volume 2 | 1980
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Volume 3 | 1981
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Volume 4 | 1982
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Volume 5 | 1983
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Volume 6 | 1984
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Volume 7 | 1985
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Volume 8 | 1986
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Volume 9 | 1987
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Volume 10 | 1988
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Volume 11 | 1990
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Volume 12 | 1991
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Volume 13 | 1992
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Volume 14; Issue 1 & 2 | 1993
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Volume 15; Issue 1 & 2 | 1994

Issue 1
Punch Lincoln: Some Thoughts on Cartoons in the British Magazine
“Columbia’s Noblest Sons”: Washington and Lincoln in Popular Prints
The Unfinished Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Issue 2
Lincoln’s Prewar Constitutional Vision
“Public Sentiment Is Everything”: Lincoln’s View of Political Persuasion
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Volume 16; 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
Lincoln and the Gettysburg Awakening
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The Lawyer as Peacemaker: Law and Community in Abraham Lincoln’s Slander Cases
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Volume 17; 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
The Comic News, Lincoln, and the Civil War
Issue 2
Salmon P. Chase and the Politics of Racial Reform
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Volume 18; 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
Issue 2
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
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Volume 19; 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
Issue 2
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Volume 20; Issue 1 & 2 | 1999

Issue 1
Lincoln among the Reformers: Tempering the Temperance Movement
Springfield’s African Americans as a Part of the Lincoln Community
Sandburg’s Lincoln within History
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, by James M. McPherson
Issue 2
Dalby Revisited: A New Look at Lincoln’s “Most Far-Reaching Case” in the Illinois Supreme Court
The Lincoln White House Community
The Historian’s Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History, edited by Gabor S. Boritt
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Volume 21; Issue 1 & 2 | 2000
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Volume 22; 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
Issue 2
William H. Herndon and Mary Todd Lincoln
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Volume 23; 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
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Volume 24; Issue 1 & 2 | 2003

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Lincoln the Dwarf: Lyon Gardiner Tyler’s War on the Mythical Lincoln
An Illinois Iconoclast: Edgar Lee Masters and the Anti-Lincoln Tradition
Issue 2
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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Volume 25; 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
Abraham Lincoln Association (2003)
Issue 2
Albert J. Beveridge and Demythologizing Lincoln
Acts of Remembrance: Mary Todd Lincoln and Her Husband’s Memory
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
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Volume 26; Issue 1 & 2 | 2005

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Ann Rutledge in American Memory: Social Change and the Erosion of a Romantic Drama
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)
Issue 2
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
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Volume 27; 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.
Abraham Lincoln Association (2005)
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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
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Volume 28; Issue 1 & 2 | 2007

Issue 1
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
Abraham Lincoln Association (2006)
Donors to the Abraham Lincoln Association Endowment
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Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of an Antislavery Nationalism
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Volume 29; Issue 1 & 2 | 2008

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Benjamin Butler’s Colonization Testimony Reevaluated
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)
Issue 2
“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
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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
What Was Tad Lincoln’s Speech Problem?
Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America, by Allen C. Guelzo
Abraham Lincoln Association (2008)
Issue 2
Brief Encounter: A New York Cavalryman’s Striking Conversation with Abraham Lincoln
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
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Volume 31; Issue 1 & 2 | 2010

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The Other Lincoln-Douglas Debate: The Race Issue in a Comparative Context
Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President, by Thomas L. Krannawitter
“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
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
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Volume 32; Issue 1 & 2 | 2011

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His Loyal Opposition: Lincoln’s Border States’ Critics
The Fire-Eaters and Seward Lincoln
Lincoln’s Critics: The Copperheads
Lincoln’s Political Generals, by David Work
Abraham Lincoln Association (2010)
Issue 2
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
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases, by Daniel W. Stowell et al.
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Volume 33; Issue 1 & 2 | 2012

Issue 1
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
Abraham Lincoln Association (2011)
Issue 2
“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
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Volume 34; Issue 1 & 2 | 2013

Issue 1
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
Abraham Lincoln Association (2011)
Issue 2
“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
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Volume 35; Issue 1 & 2 | 2014

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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
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner
Abraham Lincoln Association (2013)
Issue 2
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
The Mind of Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman, by David Lowenthal
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865, by James Oakes
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Volume 36; Issue 1 & 2 | 2015

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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
Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power, by Kevin Peraino
Abraham Lincoln Association (2014)
Issue 2
The Founding Fathers and the Election of 1864
Icy Blasts to Balmy Airs: British North America and Lincoln’s Assassination
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
With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era by William A. Blair
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Volume 37; Issue 1 & 2 | 2016

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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
All The Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, by John Taliaferro
Abraham Lincoln Association (2015)
Issue 2
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
1863: Lincoln’s Pivotal Year, by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard
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Volume 38; Issue 1 & 2 | 2017

Issue 1
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
Abraham Lincoln Association 2016 Members
Issue 2
McClellan Redux? The Often-Reported, Imminent Return of Little Mac
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Volume 39; Issue 1 | 2018

Issue 1
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