Introduction	Lincoln's Public Life	Assassination
Slavery	Lincoln's Private Life	Money Smart Program
Emancipation	Civil War	Extended Bibliography
Friends & Enemies	Illinois and the Civil War	Sponsors

 

NON FICTION

Lincoln’s Public Life:

Abraham Lincoln  by George McGovern

Lincoln the Lawyer by Brian Dirck

Lincoln Before Washington: New Perspectives on the Illinois Years by Douglas Wilson

Lincoln Revisited edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel

Abraham Lincoln: A Presidential Life by James M. McPherson

Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon by Philip B. Iii Kunhardt, Peter W. Kunhardt, Peter W. Jr. Kunhardt

Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America by Barry Schwartz

Lincoln’s Sword by Douglas L. Wilson

Lincoln and the Decision for War by Russell McClintock

Lincoln’s Last Months by William C. Harris

The Great Comeback by Gary Ecelbarger

 

Lincoln’s Private Life:

Lincoln the Inventor by Jason Emerson

Lincoln’s Christianity by Michael Burkhimer

The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln by C.A.Tripp

Lincoln On Lincoln by Paul M. Zall

The Madness of Mary Lincoln by Jason Emerson

Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home by Matthew Pinsker

The Lincolns in the White House by Jerrold M. Packard

 

Friends and Enemies:

Rebel Giants by David Contosta

Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd

Summers With Lincoln by James A. Percoco

Lincoln: A Foreigner’s Quest by Jan Morris

Lincoln’s Men by Daniel Mark Epstein

Lincoln As I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies edited by Harold Holzer

Lincoln’s Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and A President’s Mission to Destroy the Press by Jeffrey Manber and Neil Dahlstrom

Slavery:

The Slaves’ War by Andrew Ward

From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline L. Tobin and Hettie Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Sylviane A. Diouf

Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery by Richard Striner

Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember edited by James Mellon

 

Civil War:

Words for the Hour: A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry by Faith Barrett, Cristanne Miller

Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 by Nelson D. Lankford

What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History by Edward L. Ayers

Brady’s Civil War: A Collection of Memorable Civil War Images Photographed by Mathew Brady and His Assistants by Webb Garrison

Lines of Contention: Political Cartoons of the Civil War by J.G. Lewin and P.J. Huff

Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the War Between the States by Cormac O’Brien

Dixie Victorious: An Alternate History of the Civil War by Peter G Tsouras

Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine by Ira M. Rutkow

 

Illinois and the Civil War:

To Rescue My Native Land: The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery edited by Kurt H. Hackemer

Three Years with the 92nd Illinois: The Civil War Diary of John M. King edited by Claire E. Swedberg

Escape Betwixt Two Suns: A True Tale of the Underground Railroad in Illinois by Carol Pirtle

Black Chicago’s First Century: Volume I, 1833-1900 by Christopher Robert Reed

Rally ‘Round the Flag: Chicago and the Civil War by Theodore J. Karamanski

To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas 1862-65 by George Levy

The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-Ninth U.S. Colored Infantry by Edward A. Miller, Jr.

Testament by Benson Bobrick

 

Emancipation and Reconstruction:

Freedom’s Children: The Passage from Emancipation to the Great Migration by Velma Maia Thomas

If the Creek Don’t Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War by Rita Williams

Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876 by William H. Rehnquist

Mulatto America: At the Crossroads of Black and White Culture by Stephan Talty

The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America’s First Black Dynasty by Lawrence Otis Graham

Climbing Up to Glory by Wilbert L. Jenkins

The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views by Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford, and Frank J. Williams.

Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

Looking for Lincoln by Philip B. Iii Kunhardt

 

Assassination:

Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President by Edward Steers, Jr.

Murdering Mr. Lincoln: A New Detection of the 19th Century’s Most Famous Crime by Charles Higham

The Dark Intrigue: The True Story of a Civil War Conspiracy by Frank van der Linden

We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts by Timothy S. Good

Lincoln’s Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War by Elizabeth D. Leonard

Lincoln and Booth: More Light on the Conspiracy by H. Donald Winkler

American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies by Michael W. Kauffman

“They Have Killed Papa Dead!": The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance by Anthony Pitch

 

Spanish Language:

Lincoln edited by Francisco Luis Cardona Castro

 

GENERAL FICTION 

Civil War:

The March by E. L. Doctorow

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

All Other Nights by Dana Horn

We Look Like Men of War by William R. Forstchen

Pinkerton’s Secret by Eric Lerner

 

Slavery:

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Family by J. California Cooper

Soul Catcher by Michael White

Day of Tears by Julius Lester

Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper

 

The Lincolns:

Mary by Janice Cook Newman

Grief by Andrew Holleran

Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon

The Emancipator’s Wife by Barbra Hambly

Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln by Richard Slotkin

 

Emancipation/Reconstruction:

The Black Rose by Tananarive Due

In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper

The Year of Jubilo by Howard Bahr

1876  by Gore Vidal

Cane River by Lalita Tademy

 

GENRE FICTION 

Fantasy/Alternate History:

How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove

1862 by Robert Conroy

Stars and Stripes In Peril by Harry Harrison

Lincoln’s Dreams by Connie Willis

 

Romance:

A Long Way From Home by Connie Briscoe

 

Mystery/Thriller:

99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale by David Wellington

Dead March: A Civil War Mystery by Ann McMillan

Fire Bell in the Night by Geoffrey Adams

Unholy Fire by Robert J. Mrazek

 

Graphic Novels:

Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African Americans by Roland Owen Laird, Jr. with Taneshia Nash Laird and Elihu “Adofo” Bey

Nat Turner by Kyle Baker