Lincoln's Formative Years at New Salem

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Finkelman, Paul. "Evading the Ordinance: The Persistence of Bondage in Indiana and Illinois," Journal of the Early Republic 9:1 (1989): 21-51.
Hart, Richard E. "Springfield's African Americans as a Part of the Lincoln Community," Journal of Abraham Lincoln Association 20: (1999): 35-54.
Howe, Daniel Walker. "Why Abraham Lincoln Was a Whig," Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 16:2 (1995): 27-38.
Simon, Paul. Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness: The Illinois Legislative Years. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965.
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Man of Consequence: Abraham Lincoln in the 1850s

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Lincoln's Secretaries in 1862

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Lincoln at Gettysburg

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Lincoln Laughing

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