The Lincoln anthology: great writers on his life and legacy from 1860 to now

Introduction / Harold Holzer Portrait by Mathew Brady, New York City, taken February 27, 1860 Introduction of Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union (February 27, 1860) / William Cullen Bryant From Life of Abraham Lincoln (1860) / William Dean Howells From Lincoln on the eve of '61 (November 1860) / Henry Villard Artemus Ward on his visit to Abe Lincoln (December 8, 1860) / Artemus Ward From The journals (February 1862) / Ralph Waldo Emerson From Chiefly about war-matters by a peaceable man (July 1862) / Nathaniel Hawthorne Three hundred thousand more (July 16, 1862) / James Sloan Gibbons The prayer of twenty millions (August 19, 1862) / Horace Greeley On events in North America (October 12, 1862) / Karl Marx From The diaries (1862) / George Templeton Strong From The journals (c. July 1863) / Ralph Waldo Emerson The President's policy (January 1864) / James Russell Lowell Abraham Lincoln (February 6, 1864) / Harriet Beecher Stowe From Abraham Africanus I (1864) / Anonymous Title page, Abraham Africanus I (1864) Has an interview with the President (1864) / Petroleum V. Nasby The Federal Phoenix (December 3, 1864) / Anonymous

From The diaries (1865) / George Templeton Strong Abraham Lincoln, the martyr victorious, print by John Sartain Sermon preached in Boston (April 16, 1865) / Edward Everett Hale Remarks at the services held in Concord (April 19, 1865) / Ralph Waldo Emerson The Death of Lincoln (April, 1865) / William Cullen Bryant Sermon preached in Brooklyn (April 23, 1865) / Henry Ward Beecher Oration in Union Square, New York City (April 25, 1865) / George Bancroft Abraham Lincoln : assassinated Good Friday, 1865 (April 1865) / Edmund Clarence Stedman Abraham Lincoln : foully assassinated April 14, 1865 (May 6, 1865) / Tom Taylor Abraham Lincoln's murder (May 15, 1865) / Henrik Ibsen Address of the International Working Men's Association to President Johnson (May 20, 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 (July 1865) / Noah Brooks From Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration (1865) / James Russell Lowell Notebook entry (September-October 1865) / Victor Hugo

The martyr (1866) / Herman Melville Abraham Lincoln, Ann Rutledge, and New Salem : a lecture (November 1866) / William H. Herndon Oration in memory of Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1876) / Frederick Douglass Freedmen's Monument, Washington, D.C., by Thomas Ball (1876) The emancipation group (1879) / John Greenleaf Whittier Abraham Lincoln (1880) / Richard Henry Stoddard From Leaves of grass : When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd ; O Captain! My Captain! ; Hush'd be the camps to-day (May, 1865) ; This dust was once the man (1881) / Walt Whitman From Specimen days & collect : Abraham Lincoln ; Death of President Lincoln ; No good portrait of Lincoln ; Death of Abraham Lincoln (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 Bronze cast from the plaster life mask of Abraham Lincoln and plaster casts of Lincoln's hands made by Leonard Wells Volk in 1860 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 (January 13, 1907) / Mark Twain Lincoln the boy (1907) / James Whitcomb Riley Tolstoi holds Lincoln world's greatest hero (February 7, 1909) / Leo Tolstoy Centenary address at Hodgenville, Kentucky (February 12, 1909) / Theodore Roosevelt Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (February 12, 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 : Anne Rutledge ; Hannah Armstrong (1915) / Edgar Lee Masters Journey and oath ; "Paint his head against lavender shadows" (1915) / Carl Sandburg Address at Hodgenville, Kentucky (September 4, 1916) / Woodrow Wilson A farmer remembers Lincoln (1917) / Witter Bynner Lincoln (1921) / John Gould Fletcher Draft of speech at the Lincoln Memorial (May 1922) / Robert Russa Moton From The Crisis (May-September 1922) / W.E.B. Du Bois From The six greatest men in history (July 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 Weary of the truth, oil painting by Marsden Hartley (1940) From Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1939) / Robert E. Sherwood Raymond Massey in the Broadway production of Abe Lincoln in Illinois, drawn for the theater playbill by Norman Rockwell (1938) 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 (November 19, 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

Cartoon by Bill Mauldin, Chicago Sun-Times, November 23, 1963

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

The religion of Abraham Lincoln (February 1965) / Reinhold Niebuhr

Was Abe Lincoln a white supremacist? (February 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" (1982) / 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" (February 12, 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.