Author:Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

16th President of the United States (1861 – 1865), with Hannibal Hamlin (1861 - 1865) and Andrew Johnson, succeeding James Buchanan; succeeded by Johnson. Whig House Representative from Illinois (1847 - 1849). Illinois militia (1832) The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

Abraham Lincoln

Works

Inaugural addresses

• First Inaugural Address (1861)
• Second Inaugural Address (1865)

State of the Union addresses

• First State of the Union address (1861)
• Second State of the Union address (1862)
• Third State of the Union address (1863)
• Fourth State of the Union address (1864)

Executive directives

• Executive Orders
• Order to Suspend Habeas Corpus, April 27, 1861
• Order to Suspend Habeas Corpus, July 2, 1861
• Amnesty to Political or State Prisoners (February 14, 1862)
• Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862)
• Proclamation Suspending Habeas Corpus (September 24, 1862)
• Final Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)
• The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• Proclamation Suspending Habeas Corpus (September 15, 1863)
• Proclamation of Amnesty (December 8, 1863)
• Proclamation Declaring Martial Law and a Further Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus in Kentucky (July 5, 1864)

Other works

• The Lyceum Address (January 27, 1838)
• Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3
  • "I Am Humble Abraham Lincoln"
  • Injustice the Foundation of Slavery
  • The Home Market and Other Advantages of a Protective Tariff
  • "Spot Resolutions" on Mexican War
  • In Favor of Internal Improvements
  • Eulogy of Henry Clay
• The Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858
• Cooper Union Speech (page)
• Farewell Address (1861) (page)
• House Divided Speech (June 16, 1858)
• Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
• Final public address (April 11, 1865) (page)
• The Bear Hunt, poem
• Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (page)
• Speeches to Ohio Regiments (page)

Letters

• Letter to Carl Schurz (June 18, 1860)
• Letter to Carl Schurz (November 10, 1862)
• Letter to Carl Schurz (November 24, 1862)
• Letter to A. G. Hodges (April 4, 1864)
• Letter to Mrs. Bixby (November 21, 1864; a current belief is that this was written by his secretary, John Hay)

Works about Lincoln

See also: Category:Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• The Death of Lincoln, poem by William Bryant
• "The Quakers are Out" by John Greenleaf Whittier about Lincoln's 1860 Presidential campaign
• "Abraham Lincoln: A Horatian Ode," 1865 poem by Richard Henry Stoddard
• "For the Services in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1865)
• "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman (1865)
• The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1866), by Josiah Gilbert Holland
• Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876) by Frederick Douglass
• “Lincoln, Abraham” by Rossiter Johnson in The American Cyclopædia, 1879.
• “Abraham Lincoln” by John G. Nicolay  in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.), 1882.
• The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1885), by Isaac N. Arnold
• Abraham Lincoln: An Essay by Carl Schurz (1891)
• “The Story of Abraham Lincoln” from Four Great Americans by James Baldwin (1897)
• William Peterfield Trent, “Lincoln, Abraham,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Lincoln, Abraham” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• Tolstoy on Lincoln, by Leo Tolstoy as told to Count S. Stakelberg, 1909
• “Lincoln, Abraham” by John George Nicolay and Charles Crawford Whinery in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• Abraham Lincoln: A Story and a Play by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade (1914)
• “Abraham Lincoln” by John Hay in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914, 1914.
• Eleanor Atkinson, “Lincoln, Abraham,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• “Lincoln, Abraham” by Daniel Fish  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Lincoln, Abraham,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.
• Abraham Lincoln, a poem (1895) by Lyman Whitney Allen
• The Perfect Tribute (1906) by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

Letters to Lincoln

• Letter from Carl Schurz (May 22, 1860)
• Letter from Carl Schurz (November 8, 1862)
• Letter from Carl Schurz (November 20, 1862)
• Elder Letter to President Lincoln (1864)

Letters of Condolence to his family

• Louis-Philippe to Mary Todd Lincoln, Friday, May 5, 1865

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.