Rise to National Prominence

The New Lincoln

Kansas/Nebraska Act

Back to top

Finding His Voice

Back to top

The Run for President

Road to the Nomination

Back to top

Front Porch Campaign

Back to top

Election: Celebration and Trepidation

Back to top

Journey to Washington

Back to top

The Presidency

The Sixteenth President

  • Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, March 4, 1861, from the Benjamin Brown French. album. Salted paper photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (103) Digital ID # ppmsca-07636
  • William H. Seward’s notes on Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, 1861. Holograph manuscript. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (100) Digital ID # al0100; al0100_01–al0100_02
  • Abraham Lincoln. First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. Printed manuscript with holographic emendations in Lincoln's hand. Robert Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (101) Digital ID# al0101_01–al0101_7
  • Holy Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1853. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (102) Digital ID # al0102_01–al0102_04

Back to top

Lincoln as Commander in Chief

Call to Arms

Back to top

Battling Incompetence

Back to top

Emancipation Proclamation

Back to top

Success through Trial and Error

Back to top

Gettysburg Address

Back to top

End in Sight

Back to top

Healing the Nation’s Wounds

Back to top

“Now He Belongs to the Ages”

Back to top

Vignettes

Young Lincoln

  • Samuel Kirkham. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures (6th ed.). Cincinnati: N. & G. Guilford, 1828. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (001) Digital ID # al0001, al0001_01
  • Abraham Lincoln. Student sum book, ca. 1824–1826. Holograph manuscript. Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (002) Digital ID # al0002
  • The Comprehensive Bible. Philadelphia: 1847. Robert Todd Lincoln Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (003) Digital ID # al0003, al0003_01, al0003_02
  • Abraham Lincoln. My Childhood Home I See Again . . . , ca. 1844. Holograph manuscript. Robert Todd Lincoln Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (004) Digital ID # al0004p1, al0004p2
  • Robert B. Rutledge to William H. Herndon, November 1, 1866. Holograph letter. Herndon-Weik Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (006) Digital ID # al0006, al0006_p1

Back to top

Early Career

Back to top

Practicing Law

Back to top

Candidate Lincoln

Back to top

Arrival in Washington

Back to top

A Team of Rivals

Back to top

Life in the White House

Back to top

Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

Back to top

At War's End

Back to top

Memorializing Lincoln

Back to top