Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's
Journey to Emancipation

Online Resources

A collection of online sites dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, The Civil War, Slavery and Abolition, and Culture and History of the Civil War Era.

Print Resources

All books below are in the New Bern-Craven County Public Library Online Catalog.

For print resources for Children and Young Adults, visit our Youth Services resources page.

Adult Non-Fiction

Donald, David Herbert. "We are Lincoln men": Abraham Lincoln and his friends.

Flood, Charles Bracelen. 1864: Lincoln at the gates of history.   

Boritt, G. S. The Gettysburg gospel: the Lincoln speech that nobody knows.   

Burton, Orville Vernon. The Age of Lincoln.   

Chadwick, Bruce. The two American presidents: a dual biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.   

Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson. Abraham Lincoln.   

DiLorenzo, Thomas J. The real Lincoln: a new look at Abraham Lincoln, his agenda, and an unnecessary war.   

Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln.   

Epstein, Daniel Mark. The Lincolns: portrait of a marriage.  

Epstein, Daniel Mark. Lincoln and Whitman: parallel lives in Civil War Washington.   

Garrison, Webb B. The Lincoln no one knows: the mysterious man who ran the Civil War.   

Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers.

-----. General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse.

-----. The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln.   

Guelzo, Allen C. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: the end of slavery in America.   

Holzer, Harold. The Lincoln anthology: great writers on his life and legacy from 1860 to now.   

Holzer, Harold. Lincoln president-elect: Abraham Lincoln and the great secession winter 1860-1861.   

Keneally, Thomas. Abraham Lincoln.  

Kunhardt, Philip B. Looking for Lincoln: the making of an American icon.   

Kunhardt, Philip B. Lincoln: an illustrated biography.   

Lamb, Brian. Abraham Lincoln: great American historians on our sixteenth president.   

Lincoln, Abraham. Lincoln on race and slavery.   

Lincoln, Abraham. In Lincoln's hand: his original manuscripts.   

Long, David E. The jewel of liberty: Abraham Lincoln's re-election and the end of slavery.   

Marvel, William. Mr. Lincoln goes to war.   

Oakes, James. The radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the triumph of antislavery politics.   

Oates, Stephen B. With malice toward none: the life of Abraham Lincoln.   

Oates, Stephen B. Abraham Lincoln: the man behind the myth.   

Paludan, Phillip S. The presidency of Abraham Lincoln.   

Prokopowicz, Gerald J. Did Lincoln own slaves?: and other frequently asked questions about Abraham Lincoln.   

Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln, the prairie years.   

Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln; the war years.   

Simon, John Y. Lincoln revisited: new insights from the Lincoln Forum.   

Stauffer, John. Giants: the parallel lives of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln.   

Thomas, Benjamin Platt. Abraham Lincoln; a biography.   

Waugh, John C. Reelecting Lincoln: the presidential election of 1864.   

White, Ronald C. A. Lincoln: a biography.   

White, Ronald C. The eloquent president: a portrait of Lincoln through his words.

Adult Fiction

Doctorow, E.L. The March

Gibbons, Kaye. On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

Jiles, Paulette. Enemy Women  

Safire, William. Freedom.

Shaara,Michael. Killer Angels

Slotkin, Richard. Abe: a novel.

Stone, Irving. Love is eternal; a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln.

Vidal, Gore. Lincoln.

Willis, Connie.  Lincoln’s Dreams

Wilson, Dorothy Clarke. Lincoln's mothers.