Introduction Introduction of Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union (1860) / William Cullen Bryant From Life of Abraham Lincoln (1860) / William Dean Howells From Lincoln on the eve of '61 (1860) / Henry Villard Artemus Ward on his visit to Abe Lincoln (1860) / Artemus Ward From The journals (1862) / Ralph Waldo Emerson From Chiefly about war - matters by a peaceable man (1862) / Nathaniel Hawthorne Three hundred thousand more (1862) / James Sloan Gibbons The prayer of twenty millions (1862) / Horace Greeley On events in North America (1862) / Karl Marx From The diaries (1862) / George Templeton Strong From The journals (1863) / Ralph Waldo Emerson The president's policy (1864) / James Russell Lowell Abraham Lincoln (1864) / Harriet Beecher Stowe From Abraham Africanus I (1864) /Anonymous Has an interview with the President (1864) / Petroleum V. Nasby The federal phoenix (1864) / Anonymous From The diaries (1865) / George Templeton Strong

Sermon preached in Boston (1865) / Edward Everett Hale

Remarks at the services held in Concord (1865) / Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Death of Lincoln (1865) / William Cullen Bryant

Sermon preached in Brooklyn (1865) / Henry Ward Beecher

Oration in Union Square, New York City (1865) / George Bancroft

Abraham Lincoln : assassinated Good Friday, 1865 (1865) / Edmund Clarence Stedman

Abraham Lincoln foully assassinated, April 14, 1865 (1865) / Tom Taylor

Abraham Lincoln's murder (1865) / Henrik Ibsen

Address of the International working men's association to president Johnson (1865) / Karl Marx - Abraham Lincoln : an Horatian ode (1865) / Richard Henry Stoddard

"Crown his blood-stained pillow" (1865) / Julia Ward Howe

Personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln (1865) / Noah Brooks

From Ode recited at the Harvard commemoration (1865) / James Russell Lowell

Notebook entry (1865) / Victor Hugo

The martyr (1866) / Herman Melville

Abraham Lincoln, Ann Rutledge, and New Salem : a lecture (1866) / William H. Herndon

Oration in memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876) / Frederick Douglass

The emancipation group (1879) / John Greenleaf Whittier

Abraham Lincoln (1880) / Richard Henry Stoddard

From leaves of Grass (1881) / Walt Whitman

From Specimen days and collect (1882) / Walt Whitman The hand of Lincoln (1883) / Edmund Clarence Stedman From Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant (1886) / Ulysses S. Grant From Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by distinguished men of his time (1886) / Frederick Douglass On the life-mask of Abraham Lincoln (1886), To the spirit of Abraham Lincoln (1888) / Richard Watson Gilder From November boughs (1888) / Walt Whitman From Herndon's Lincoln : the true story of a great life (1889) / William H. Herndon & Jesse W. Weik From Abraham Lincoln : a history (1890) / John G. Nicolay & John Hay From Inside the White House in war times (1890) / William O. Stoddard From Abraham Lincoln : an essay (1891) / Carl Schurz From Lecture on Abraham Lincoln (1893) / Bram Stoker From The life of Abraham Lincoln (1900) / Ida M. Tarbell From The crisis (1901) / Winston Churchill Lincoln, the man of the people (1901) / Edwin Markham A Lincoln memorial (1907) / Mark Twain Lincoln - the boy (1907) / James Whitcomb Riley Tolstoi holds Lincoln world's greatest hero (1909) / Leo Tolstoy Centenary address at Hodgenville, Kentucky (1909) / Theodore Roosevelt Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican club of New York City (1909) / Booker T. Washington

Abraham Lincoln (1909) / Julia Ward Howe The master (1910) / Edwin Arlington Robinson Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight (1914) / Vachel Lindsay From Spoon river anthology (1915) / Edgar Lee Masters Journey and oath (1915), "Paint his head against lavender shadows" (1915) / Carl Sandburg Address at Hodgenville, Kentucky (1916) / Woodrow Wilson A farmer remembers Lincoln (1917) / Witter Bynner Lincoln (1921) / John Gould Fletcher Draft of speech at the Lincoln Memorial (1922) / Robert Russa Moton From The crisis (1922) / W.E.B. Du Bois From The six greatest men in history (1922) / H.G. Wells From Prejudices : third series (1922) / H.L. Mencken From In the American grain (1925) / William Carlos Williams From Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years (1926) Carl Sandburg From John Brown's body (1928) / Stephen Vincent Benét From With malice toward none (1928) / Honoré Willsie Morrow From Lincoln the unknown (1932) / Dale Carnegie Lincoln monument : Washington (1932) / Langston Hughes Nancy Hanks (1933) / Rosemary Benét From The people, yes : 57 (1936) / Carl Sandburg American Ikon - Lincoln (c. 1939) / Marsden Hartley From Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1939) / Robert E. Sherwood Mr. Lincoln and his gloves (c. 1942) / Carl Sandburg The dictionary of the wolf (1944) / Melvin B. Tolson The long shadow of Lincoln: a litany (1945) / Carl Sandburg Remarks at Gettysburg (1951) / Adlai E. Stevenson From Abraham Lincoln - the early years (1953) / James Agee From Love is eternal (1954) / Irving Stone From A history of the English-speaking peoples (1958) / Sir Winston Churchill

From The last days of Lincoln (1959) / Mark Van Doren

Lincoln the writer (1959) / Jacques Barzun

Lincoln (1959) / Delmore Schwartz

From The rivalry (1960) / Norman Corwin

From If the south had won the Civil War (1961) / Mackinlay Kantor

Abraham Lincoln and the art of the word (1961) / Marianne Moore

From Patriotic gore (1962) / Edmund Wilson

Lincoln and his almost chosen people (1964) / John Dos Passos

The religion of Abraham Lincoln (1965) / Reinhold Niebuhr

Was Abe Lincoln a white supremacist? (1968) / Lerone Bennett Jr.

From The civil war : a narrative (1974) / Shelby Foote

Abraham Lincoln (1976) / Robert Lowell

The Lincoln relics (1978) / Stanley Kunitz

Adapted from Neruda's "Que despierte el leñador" (1981) / Allen Ginsberg

Lincoln and Confucian virtues (1983) / Donggill Kim

From O Albany! An urban tapestry (1983) / William Kennedy

From Unto this hour (1984) / Tom Wicker

From Lincoln (1984) / Gore Vidal

Abraham Lincoln and our "Unfinished Work" (1986) / Mario M. Cuomo

From Freedom (1987) / William Safire

From Lincoln at Gettysburg : the words that remade America (1992) / Garry Wills

From Abe : a novel of the young Lincoln (2000) / Richard Slotkin

From Mr. Lincoln's wars (2003) / Adam Braver

From The march (2005) / E.L. Doctorow

Epilogue : Barack Obama at Springfield.