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Mr. Lincoln was a man on the move. You might even call him a man on the make.

—Lewis Lehrman

 

Essays

“Stump Speaking,” by George C. Bingham, 1856. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)
Abraham Lincoln, n.d., by Mathew Brady (Gilder Lehrman Collection)
President Lincoln delivering his inaugural address on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol, March 4, 1865.
Abraham Lincoln and Jacksonian Democracy, by Sean Wilentz
Lincoln’s Religion, by Richard Carwardine
Mr. Lincoln and Friends, by Lewis E. Lehrman

Documents

Abraham Lincoln’s patent, May 22, 1849, page 3. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)
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Mary Todd Lincoln, ca. 1863 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)
Abraham Lincoln, Inventor, 1849
Abraham Lincoln, Mary Owens, and the accidental engagement
Mary Todd Lincoln on life after the White House, 1870

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