A Selection of Books...

For Adult Readers

Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Belknap Press, 2001

Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power. Knopf, 2006

Cox, Lawanda. Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership. University of South Carolina Press, 1994

Fleischner, Jennifer. Mrs. Lincoln & Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave. Broadway Books, 2003.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Hambly, Barbara. The Emancipator’s Wife. Bantam, 2005.

Holzer, Harold. Lincoln as American Redeemer. Library of America, 2009.

Holzer, Harold. Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President. Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Jones, Howard. Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War. University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

Klingaman, William K. Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation. Penguin USA, 2002.

McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. OUP, 1988.

Miller, William Lee. Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography. Vintage Books, 2003.

White, Ronald. Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural. Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Williams, Frank J & Harold Holzer. Judging Lincoln. Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.

For Younger Readers

Bial, Raymond. Where Lincoln Walked. Walker & Co., 1997.

Clayton, Nancy. Strange but True Civil War Stories. Lowell House, 1999.

Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.

Denenberg, Barry. Lincoln Shot!: A President’s Life Remembered. Feiwel and Friends, 2008.

Douglass, Frederick. Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words. Knopf, 1994.

Friedman, Robin. The Silent Witness: A True Story of the Civil War. Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Furbee, Mary R. Outrageous Women of the Civil War. John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

Landau, Elaine. The Emancipation Proclamation: Would You Do What Lincoln Did? Enslow Publishers, 2008.

Wells, Rosemary. Lincoln and His Boys. Candlewick Press, 2009.