Abraham Lincoln
- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln Association)
- Abraham Lincoln Papers (Library of Congress)
- Lincoln Log: Daily Chronology (Abraham Lincoln Association)
Additional Primary Sources
- Papers of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library)
- Lincoln Recollections (JAH/House Divided Project –full text, published vols)
- Lincoln / Net (Northern Illinois University)
- Herndon’s Informants (short recollections about Lincoln)
- Nineteenth-century texts (Illinois)
- Congressional Globe (Library of Congress, A Century of Lawmaking)
- War of the Rebellion: Official Records (Cornell / Making of America)
Top Secondary Sources
- Multi-volume Lincoln biography by Michael Burlingame (Knox College)
- Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association (full text archives)
Other Helpful Lincoln Sites
- Abraham Lincoln’s Classroom (Lerhman Institute)
- Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life (Smithsonian)
- Building the Digital Lincoln (JAH/House Divided Project)
- Emancipation Digital Classroom (House Divided Project)
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates Digital Classroom (House Divided Project)
- Lincoln’s Gettysburg Addresses (Google Cultural Institute)
- Lincoln’s Writings: The Multi-Media Edition (House Divided Project)
- Top Ten Lincoln Resources (Blog Divided / House Divided Project)
- With Malice Toward None (Library of Congress)
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott Case (Major Topics / House Divided Research Engine, Dickinson College)
Dred Scott Decision and Its Bitter Legacy (Exhibitions / Gilder Lehrman Institute)
Dred Scott Sesquicentennial (National Park Service)
Dred Scott’s Family (PowerPoint file)
Freeing Dred Scott (Essay by Adam Arenson / Common-Place)
Missouri’s Dred Scott Case (Missouri State Archives)
Revised Dred Scott Case Collection (Washington University)
Scott v. Sandford (1857) 60 U.S. 393 (Legal Information Institute / Cornell University)
St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records (Freedom Suits / Washington University)
US Constitution Seminar / Dred Scott Case (Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College)
Civil War Soldiers: Selected Letters & Diaries Online
General
Civil War Diaries & Letters Transcription Project // University of Iowa Libraries
Civil War Voices: Soldier Studies // Chris Wehner, history teacher, Fruita Monument H.S.
I Take Up My Pen: Letters from the Civil War // Exhibition from Gilder Lehrman
Letters & Diaries (Franklin Co, PA & Augusta Co, VA) // Valley of the Shadow
Union
Daniel R. Anthony, (7th Kansas Cavalry) // Taylor Bye, Dickinson College
Sullivan Ballou Letter (2d Rhode Island) // PBS –Ken Burns’s “Civil War”
John C. Brock (43d USCT) // Blog Divided
Christie Brothers (Minnesota Light Artillery) // Minnesota Historical Society
Daniel F. Kemp (US Navy) // Betsy Beyer –Marist College
Taylor Brothers (1st Minnesota) // Civil War 150, House Divided Project
Confederate
Robert C. Caldwell (10th North Carolina Artillery) // East Carolina University
William E. Stoker (18th Texas Infantry) // House Divided Project, Dickinson College
From the Homefront: Correspondents and Diarists
North
Sidney George Fisher diary (Pennsylvania) // Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Delia Locke diary (California) // University of the Pacific
Horatio Nelson Taft diary (Washington, DC) // Library of Congress
South
Cornelia Peake McDonald diary (Virginia) // Blog Divided
Kate Stone diary (Mississippi) // Blog Divided