Let The Library of America help you plan your Lincoln Bicentennial Reading and Discussion Group event - FREE!

To celebrate the Lincoln Bicentennial The Library of America has created five paperback Lincoln in American Memory readers featuring excerpts of essays, speeches, poems, plays, fiction, and nonfiction about Abraham Lincoln his life, his achievements, his legacy.

Hosting a Lincoln Reading Group?

Librarians, museum directors, and public programming directors can order copies Lincoln in American Memory Reader FREE!

Choose one (or more) from this selection:

1. Lincoln as Literary Genius
2. Lincoln: Legacy of the Great Emancipator
3. Lincoln as the American Redeemer
4. Lincoln as Self-Made Man
5. Lincoln and His Critics

Perfect for Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Reading/Discussion Groups at museums, libraries, historical societies, and bookstores!

Each 48-page paperback features:

• a brief introduction by a distinguished Lincoln scholar
• a background note for each selection
• questions for discussion prepared by Harold Holzer and other Lincoln scholars
• a brief chronology of Lincoln's life
• suggestions for further reading

The selections in each book are drawn from the definitive 1,000-page collection, just published by The Library of America, The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now, edited by Harold Holzer.