Lincoln in American Memory: Selected Guide to Resources

The name and much of the intellectual inspiration for the Lincoln in American Memory Project is taken from Merrill D. Petersen, Lincoln in American Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)

From The Library of America:

The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now, edited by Harold Holzer (New York: The Library of America, 2009).

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher (New York: The Library of America, 1989)

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher (New York: The Library of America, 1989)

Biographies:

Listed below are four noteworthy single-volume biographies, all written since the opening of the Lincoln Papers in the Library of Congress in 1947 inaugurated a new era in Lincoln scholarship.

Benjamin P. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952)

Stephen B. Oates, With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Harper & Row, 1977)

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995)

Ronald C. White, Jr., A. Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Random House, 2009)

Other recommended works:

Gabor S. Boritt, Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream (Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University Press, 1978)

Daniel Mark Epstein, The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage (New York: Ballantine Books, 2008)

George Frederickson, Big Enough To Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008)

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005)

Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Grand Rapids, Michigan: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999)

Harold Holzer, Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark Neely, Jr., The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984)

James M. McPherson, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief (New York: The Penguin Press, 2008)

Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982).

Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, compiled and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996)

Douglas L. Wilson, Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998)

----, Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)

Website:

http://www.thelincolnlog.org. An authoritative day-by-day chronology of Lincoln's life.

Film:

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), starring Henry Fonda, directed by John Ford (Criterion Collection DVD)

Music:

Library of Congress collection "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana: Over 200 Lincoln-related sheet-music compositions published between 1859 and 1909.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html

mp3 of 1912 Cylinder recording of Harry E. Humphrey reading the Gettysburg Address
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/4000/4955/cusb-cyl4955d.mp3

mp3 of 1914 Cylinder recording of the Peerless Quartet performing "I Love You Just like Lincoln Loved the Old Red White and Blue" written by William Jerome and Joe Young, music by Jean Schwartz.
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/0000/0179/cusb-cyl0179d.mp3

NPR Interview with Aaron Copland about his piece Lincoln portrait, followed by a performance of it by Fred Child and the U.S. Marine Band.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4165357