The Big Three
- 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 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)