The portable Abraham Lincoln / edited with an introduction by Andrew Delbanco
| Author(s): | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 |
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| Subjects: | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Archives Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Political and social views United States--Politics and government--1849-1861--Sources United States--Politics and government--1861-1865--Sources Illinois--Politics and government--To 1865--Sources |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Edition: | Bicentennial ed |
| Published: | New York : Penguin Books, 2009 |
| Series: | Penguin classics Penguin classics |
| LC Classification: | E |
| Table of Contents: | Introduction / Andrew Delbanco The Emergence of Lincoln 1 To the People of Sangamo County, Mar. 9, 1832 5 Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning, Apr. 1, 1838 9 Letter to Joshua F. Speed, June 19, 1841 12 Address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, Jan. 27, 1838 17 Handbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity, July 31, 1846 27 Letter to William H. Herndon, Feb. 1, 1848 28 Letter to Mary Todd Lincoln, Apr. 16, 1848 30 Fragment on Niagara Falls (late Sept. 1848?) 32 Notes on the Practice of Law (1850?) 33 Lincoln Becomes a Republican 37 Fragment on Slavery (1854?) 41 Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois, Oct. 16, 1854 41 Letter to George Robertson, Aug. 15, 1855 82 Letter to Joshua F. Speed, Aug. 24, 1855 83 Speech on the Dred Scott Decision at Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857 87 "House Divided" Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858 100 Fragment on the Struggle Against Slavery (c. July 1858) 109 Speech at Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858 110 First Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Ottawa, Illinois, Aug. 21, 1858 130 Letter to W. H. Wells, Jan. 8, 1859 172 Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions, Jacksonville, Illinois, Feb. 11, 1859 173 Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sept. 30, 1859 181 The Presidential Campaign 193 Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, Feb. 27, 1860 197 Letter to Cornelius F. McNeill, Apr. 6, 1860 217 "Whiskers" Letter to Grace Bedell, Oct. 19, 1860 218 Secession and the Coming of the War 219 Passage Written for Lyman Trumbull's Speech at Springfield, Illinois, Nov. 20,1860 223 Letter to Alexander H. Stephens, Dec. 22, 1860 224 Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, Feb. 11, 1861 224 Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Feb. 22, 1861 225 First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1861 226 Letter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Mar. 9, 1861 235 Letter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Apr. 1, 1861 236 Letter to Secretary of State William H. Seward, Apr. 1, 1861 236 Letter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Apr. 25, 1861 237 Letter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Apr. 27, 1861 238 Letter to Ephraim D. and Phoebe Ellsworth, May 25, 1861 239 Message to Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861 240 Commander in Chief 257 Letter to Gen. John C. Fremont, Sept. 2, 1861 261 Message to Congress, Mar. 6, 1862 262 Letter to Gideon Welles, Mar. 10, 1862 263 Letter to Horace Greeley, Mar. 24, 1862 264 Address on Colonization to a Committee of Colored Men, Washington, D.C., Aug. 14, 1862 265 Letter to Horace Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862 270 Meditation on the Divine Will (c. early Sept. 1862) 271 Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus, Sept. 24, 1862 271 Letter to Gen. George B. McClellan, Oct. 13, 1862 272 Letter to Gen. George B. McClellan, Oct. 24, 1862 275 Memorandum on Furloughs, Nov. 1862 275 Letterto Carl Schurz, Nov. 24, 1862 275 Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862 277 Message to the Army of the Potomac, Dec. 22, 1862 299 Final Emancipation Proclamation, Jan. 1, 1863 300 Letter to Gen. Joseph Hooker, Jan. 26, 1863 302 Letter to Erastus Corning and Others, June 12, 1863 303 Letter to Samuel P. Lee, July 4, 1863 312 Letter to Gen. George G. Meade, July 14, 1863 313 Order of Retaliation, July 30, 1863 314 Letter to Dr. John P. Gray, Sept. 10, 1863 315 Approval of Sentence of David M. Wright, Oct. 7, 1863 316 Letter to Gen. John G. Foster, Oct. 17, 1863 316 Opinion on the Draft (c. mid-Sept. 1863) 317 Letter to Gen. George G. Meade, Oct. 12, 1863 322 Memorandum on Testing Diller's Powder (Nov. 2, 1863, or after) 322 Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Nov. 19, 1863 323 Letter to Gov. Edward Everett, Nov. 20, 1863 324 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, Dec. 8, 1863 325 Amnesty for Emily T. Helm, Dec. 14, 1863 328 Letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Feb. 1, 1864 329 Letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Feb. 5, 1864 329 Letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Mar. 1, 1864 329 Letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Mar. 18, 1864 330 Letter to Albert G. Hodges, Apr. 4, 1864 330 Draft of Address for Sanitary Fair at Baltimore, Maryland (before Apr. 18, 1864) 332 Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland, Apr. 18, 1864 333 Letter to Sen. Charles Sumner, May 19, 1864 336 Letter to Charles D. Robinson, Aug. 17, 1864 336 Fate 339 Memorandum on Probable Failure of Re-election, Aug. 23, 1864 343 Draft of Letter to Isaac M. Schermerhorn, Sept. 12, 1864 343 Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., Nov. 10, 1864 344 Letter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, Nov. 21, 1864 346 Letter to John Phillips, Nov. 21,1864 347 Reply to a Southern Woman (Dec. 6, 1864, or before) 347 Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865 348 Letter to Thurlow Weed, Mar. 15,1865 350 Speech to the 140th Indiana Regiment, Washington, D.C., Mar. 17, 1865 350 Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., Apr. 10, 1865 352 Speech on Reconstruction, Washington, D.C., April, 1865 352 Memorandum Concerning Passes to Richmond, Apr. 13 or 14, 1865 357 Biographical List of Lincoln's Correspondents 359 Index 363 |
| Alternate Title(s): | Selections. |
| Additional Authors: | Delbanco, Andrew, 1952- |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2008032452 ISBN: 9780143105640 ISBN: 0143105647 Includes index |
| Physical Description: | xxvii, 369 p. ; 20 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 233547914 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9780143105640 0143105647 |