Lincoln's Public Letters
Instructional Resources for Analyzing Historical Documents
Historical Scholarship:
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Foner, Eric,“The Emancipation of Abe Lincoln,” New York Times, December 31, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/opinion/the-emancipation-of-abe-lincoln.html
Guelzo, Alan, “Defending Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling Letter, 1863, Civil War History, Volume 48, Number 4, December 2002
Lincoln, Abraham, The Emancipation Proclamation, Washington, D.C., January 1, 1863.
http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/lincoln/emancipation-proclamation-january-1-1863/
Lincoln, Abraham, Letter to James Conkling, August, 26, 1863
http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/lincoln/letter-to-james-conkling-august-26-1863/
Lincoln, Abraham, The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/lincoln/gettysburg-address-november-19-1863/
Masur, Louis P., “Read it Very Slowly,” New York Times, August 22, 2013
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/read-it-very-slowly/?_r=0
Oakes, James“Forever Free,” New York Times / Disunion, January 7, 2013, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/forever-free/
Wilson, Douglass, Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words, Knopf Doubleday, 2011, Google Books, pp. 193 - 194
https://books.google.com/books?id=5u25mVscD5MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Douglas+Wilson+Lincoln%27+Sword&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjM5ImQj_3NAhUJKyYKHWYGAVIQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=Douglas%20Wilson%20Lincoln's%20Sword&f=false
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Internet Websites & Search Engines:
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http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/lincoln/
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​https://www.gilderlehrman.org/
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http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/ (journal of the abraham lincoln association
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http://www.abrahamlincolnassociation.org/Journal.aspx
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