Abraham Lincoln
Bicentennial of Lincoln's birthday12 February 1809-2009
"I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am a living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has."
Speech to One Hundred Sixty-sixth Ohio Regiment 22 August 1864
U.S. Government information
- Abraham Lincoln: a Legacy of Freedom [Dept. of State]
- Abraham Lincoln [Library of Congress]
- Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial [FPC, Dept. of State]
- Abraham Lincoln Papers [Library of Congress]
- Abraham Lincoln photographs [Library of Congress]
- Abraham Lincoln: Primary Source Set for Teachers [Library of Congress]
- Mr Lincoln's Virtual Library [Library of Congress]
- Lincoln Bicentennial 1809-2009 [Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission]
- Abraham Lincoln Birthplace [National Park Service]
- Lincoln Home [National Park Service]
Podcast
- "The Heavens are Hung in Black"
This year at Ford’s Theater in Washington DC, a new play on Lincoln gave audiences a special production for this historic year.
Other information
Websites
- Abraham Lincoln [Internet Public Library]
- Abraham Lincoln [History Place]
- Abraham Lincoln [University of Virginia]
- Abraham Lincoln Association
- Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project [Northern Illinois University]
- Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum
- Abraham Lincoln Newspaper Archive
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
- Life of Lincoln [Smithsonian Institution]
- A Lincoln Library
- Lincoln 200 years [C-Span]
- Lincoln Institute
- Lincoln Studies Center [Knox College]
- Living the Legacy: Lincoln in Washington, DC
- Looking for Lincoln in Central Illinois
- Time of the Lincolns [PBS]
Bicentennial Commissions and other State Organizations
- AL Bicentennial Commission [Wikipedia]
- Connecticut AL Bicentennial Commission
- Delaware AL Bicentennial Commission
- Idaho AL Bicentennial Commission
- Illinois AL Bicentennial Commission
- Indiana AL Bicentennial Commission
- Iowa AL Bicentennial Commission
- Kentucky AL Bicentennial Commission
- Massachusetts AL Bicentennial Commission
- Michigan AL Bicentennial Committee
- New Jersey AL Bicentennial Commission
- North Dakota Lincoln Bicentennial
- Oregon AL Bicentennial Commission
- Pennsylvania AL Bicentennial Commission
- Rhode Island AL Bicentennial Commission
- Wyoming Lincoln Bicentennial
Documents
- Lincoln resumes position as Americans' top-rated president (Feb. 2007)
- Lincoln the great by Wilfred W. McClay (Jan./Feb. 2009 issue of Humanities)
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Last update: Thursday, 9 April 2009 GMT+1000
