One of the major projects of The Abraham Lincoln Association in recent years has been the digitization of ALA prior publications so that they may be placed on-line and be available to the world through the ALA website. The links below will take you to those ALA publications that are now on-line as a result of this project.
Abraham Lincoln Association Resources
Lincoln Monographs
Sample’s From This Collection:
- The Inescapable Challenge Lincoln Left Us
Catton, Bruce / 1970 - Life of Abraham Lincoln
Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert), 1819-1881. / 1866 - The Pioneer boy, and how he became President
Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898. / 1864 - Two War Leaders: Lincoln and Davis
Williams, T. Harry / 1972
Spring Creek Series
AUTHOR: RICHARD E. HART
This critical series from Richard E. Hart focuses on niche topics relating to Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield. The Spring Creek Series focused initially on the city’s African-American community but has grown to address many different aspects of the community.
- Lincoln’s Springfield – The Public Square (1823-1865) (2004)
- Springfield, Illinois’ Nineteenth Century Photographers (2005)
- Early Sangamon County Antiques – The Barringer Exhibit (2005) (Editor)
- Lincoln’s Springfield – The Underground Railroad (2006)
- The Spirit of Springfield’s Early African Americans (2006)
- Lincoln’s Springfield – The Early African American Population (2008)
- The Early Court Houses of Sangamon County, Illinois (1821-1837) (2008)
- Lincoln in Illinois: The Bicentennial of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln (2009) (Editor)
- Lincoln’s Springfield – Abel W. Estabrook: Robert Todd Lincoln’s Abolitionist Teacher (2009)
- Lincoln’s Springfield – Springfield’s Early Schools (2009)
- The Colored Section, Oak Ridge Cemetery (2009)
- Lincoln’s Springfield – Greek Revival Architecture on the Prairie (2011)
- Camp Butler: A Civil War Story: Photographs of Union Soldiers (2013)
- Circuses in Lincoln’s Springfield (1833-1860) (2013)
- Preston Butler: Photographer in Lincoln’s Springfield (2014)
- Jameson Jenkins and James Blanks, African Americans in Lincoln’s Springfield (2014)
- Springfield, Illinois’ Nineteenth Century Photographers (2014)
- Lincoln’s Springfield Funeral: The Photographs (2015)
- Lincoln’s Springfield Neighborhood (2017)
- Entertainment in Lincoln’s Springfield (1834-1860) (2017)
- Lincoln’s Springfield–Chair and Cabinet Makers (1831-1860) (2017)
- Benjamin Robert Biddle: Lincoln’s Tailor and Friend (2018)
- Elizabeth Jane Todd Grimsley Brown (2018): TOC, Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and Appendices
- Letters of Springfield Ladies (2019)
- The Collected Works of Thomas Lincoln, Carpenter and Cabinetmaker (2019)
- The Todd Brothers (2020)
- Letters from California and Oregon (2020)
- Joel Johnson: Springfield Hotel Keeper (2020)
Sugar Creek Series
AUTHOR: RICHARD E. HART
This critical series from Richard E. Hart focuses on European settlement of Cotton Hill and Ball townships south of Springfield.
- Jones Cemetery Tour: Ball, Cotton Hill & Woodside Township, Sangamon County, Illinois (2002)
- Philemon Stout Cemetery: Ball Township, Sangamon County, Illinois (2006)
- Christopher Newcomer Cemetery: Woodside Township, Sangamon County, Illinois (2009)
- Sugar Creek Cemetery: Ball Township, Sangamon County, Illinois (2010)
- Vigal Cemetery: Cotton Hill Township, Sangamon County, Illinois (2010)
- David Brunk Cemetery: Ball Township, Sangamon County, Illinois (2010)
- Cumberland Sugar Creek Cemetery, The Old Burying Ground (2012)
- George Brunk Cemetery, Cotton Hill Township, Sangamon County, Illinois (2012)
Miscellaneous Resources
VARIOUS AUTHORS
- “Speech Delivered at Oak Ridge Cemetery,” by Richard Hart (2014)
- “Address Given at St Paul’s,” by Richard E. Hart (2015)
