Chicago Style Entry Publication Type Reading Level Source Type Year Link
Grant, Ulysses S. “The Siege of Vicksburg.” Century 30, no. 5 (September 1885): 752-767. Journal Article Primary 1885 Full Record
Sherman, William T. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1875.
 Book Primary 1875 Full Record
Morris, Christopher. Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Book Secondary 1995 Full Record
Barr, Alwyn, ed. “The Battle of Bayou Bourbeau, November 3, 1863: Colonel Oran M. Roberts' Report.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 6, no. 1 (Winter 1965): 83-91.
 Journal Article Primary 1965 Full Record
Savage, Edward H. Police Records and Recollections, or Boston by Daylight and Gaslight. Boston: John P. Dale and Co., 1873. Book Primary 1873 Full Record
Warren, Edward. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. Richmond: West & Johnson, 1863. Book Primary 1863 Full Record
McDonald, William. The Two Rebellions, or, Treason Unmasked. By a Virginian. Richmond: Smith, Bailey, 1865. Book Primary 1865 Full Record
Anspach, F. R. The Sons of the Sires; A History of the Rise, Progress, and Destiny of the American Party, and its Probable Influence on the Next Presidential Election. To Which is Added a Review of the Letter of the Hon. Henry A. Wise, Against the Know-Nothings. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1855.
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Kantrowitz, Stephen. Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000 Book Secondary 2000 Full Record
Kantrowitz, Stephen. “Youngest Living Carpetbagger Tells All: Or, How Regional Myopia Created ‘Pitchfork Ben’ Tillman.” Southern Cultures 8 (2002): 18-37. Journal Article Secondary 2002 Full Record
Tindall, George Brown. "The Campaign for the Disfranchisement of the Negroes in South Carolina." Journal of Southern History 15 (1949): 212-234 Journal Article Secondary 1949 Full Record
Mabry, William Alexander. "Ben Tillman Disfranchised the Negro." South Atlantic Quarterly 37 (1938): 170-183. Journal Article Secondary 1938 Full Record
Clark, E. Culpepper. “Pitchfork Ben Tillman and the Emergence of Southern Demagoguery.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 69 (November 1983): 423-433. Journal Article Secondary 1983 Full Record
Novick, Sheldon M. Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989. Book Secondary 1989 Full Record
Baker, Liva. The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. Book Secondary 1991 Full Record
Taylor, Susie King. Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S. C. Volunteers. Boston, 1902. Book Primary 1902 Full Record
Cullom, Shelby Moore. Fifty Years of Public Service: Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1911. Book Primary 1911 Full Record
Carnegie, Andrew. Triumphant Democracy. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1886. Book Primary 1886 Full Record
Carnegie, Andrew. The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays. New York: Century Co., 1901.
 Book Primary 1901 Full Record
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Book Secondary 2005 Full Record
Pease, Theodore Calvin, and James G. Randall, eds. The Diary of Orville Browning. 2 vols. Springfield: Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1925-1933. Book Primary 1925 Full Record
Beale, Howard K., ed. The Diary of Edward Bates 1859-1866. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1933. Book Primary 1933 Full Record
Cain, Marvin R. Lincoln's Attorney General: Edward Bates of Missouri. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1965. Book Secondary 1965 Full Record
Dennett, Tyler, ed. Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1939.
 Book Primary 1939 Full Record
Hendrick, Burton. Lincoln's War Cabinet. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1946. Book Secondary 1946 Full Record
Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. 4 Vols. 1869, PA: B. Singerly, 1869. Book Primary 1869 Full Record
Nye, Wilbur Sturtevant. Here Come The Rebels!. Rev. ed. Dayton, OH: Morningside Bookshop, 1988. Book Secondary 1988 Full Record
Moore, James. History of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloons. Philadelphia: Jas. B Rodgers, 1866.
 Book Primary 1866 Full Record
Gallman, J. Matthew. Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
 Book Secondary 1990 Full Record
Taylor, Frank H. Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865. Philadelphia: The City, 1913.
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Blair, William and William Pencak, eds. Making and Remaking Pennsylvania’s Civil War. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. Book Secondary 2001 Full Record
Brockett, Linus Pierpont and Mary C. Vaughan. Woman’s Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience. Philadelphia: Zeigler, McCurdy & Co., 1867.
 Book Primary 1867 Full Record
Curtis, John Trevor. The Public Schools of Philadelphia: Historical, Biographical, and Statistical. Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge Co., 1897.
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Herringshaw, Thomas William, ed. Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography. Chicago: American Publishers’’ Association, 1914.
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Wilkeson, Frank. Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1887. Book Primary 1887 Full Record
Bromley, Isaac H. “Historic Moments: The Nomination of Lincoln.” Scribner’s Magazine 14 (November 1893): 645-657. Journal Article Primary 1893 Full Record
Ecelbarger, Gary. The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Presidential Nomination. New York: St. Martins Press, 2008. Book Secondary 2008 Full Record
Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions of 1856, 1860 and 1864. Minneapolis: Charles W. Johnson, 1893. Book Primary 1893 Full Record
Wendt, Lloyd. "Swift Walker": An Informal Biography of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard. Chicago: Regnery Books, 1986.
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Stampp, Kenneth M. The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
 Book Secondary 1980 Full Record
Wilson, James Harrison. “Reminiscences of General Grant.” Century Magazine 30 (October 1885): 947-955.
 Journal Article Primary 1885 Full Record
Rice, Allen Thorndike, ed. Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time. New York: North American, 1886. Book Primary 1886 Full Record
Eyland, Seth. The Evolution of a Life: Described in the Memoirs of Major Seth Eyland. New York: S. W. Green’s Son, 1884. Book Primary 1884 Full Record
Maynard, Douglas H. “Dudley of New Jersey and the Nomination of Lincoln.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 82 (1958): 100-108. Journal Article Secondary 1958 Full Record
Dudley, Thomas H. “The Inside Facts of Lincoln’s Nomination.” Century Magazine 40 (1890): 477-79. Journal Article Primary 1890 Full Record
Smith, Charles P. “The Nomination of Lincoln.” Beecher’s Illustrated Magazine 5 (1872): 332-35. Journal Article Primary 1872 Full Record
Temple, Wayne C. Lincoln the Railsplitter. La Crosse, WI: Willow Press, 1961. Book Secondary 1961 Full Record
Davis, J. McCan. “Origin of the Lincoln Rails as Related by Governor Oglesby.” Century Illustrated Magazine 60 (June 1900): 271-75.
 Journal Article Primary 1900 Full Record
Plummer, Mark A. Lincoln’s Rail-Splitter: Governor Richard J. Oglesby. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Book Secondary 2001 Full Record
Temple, Wayne C. “Delegates to the Illinois State Republican Nominating Convention in 1860.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 92 (1999): 289-98.
 Journal Article Secondary 1999 Full Record
Aubere, Jewell H. “A Reminiscence of Abraham Lincoln: A Conversation with Speaker [Joseph] Cannon.” World’s Work 13 (1907): 8528-30.
 Journal Article Primary 1907 Full Record
Carpenter, Frank B. “How Lincoln Was Nominated.” Century Magazine 24 (October 1882): 853-859. Journal Article Primary 1882 Full Record
Brown, Charles H. William Cullen Bryant: A Biography. New York: Scribner, 1971.
 Book Secondary 1971 Full Record
Stewart, John D. “The Great Winnebago Chieftain: Simon Cameron’s Rise to Power, 1860-1867.” Pennsylvania History 39 (1972): 20-39.
 Journal Article Secondary 1972 Full Record
Barnes, Thurlow Weed. Life of Thurlow Weed including His Autobiography and a Memoir. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884.
 Book Primary 1884 Full Record
Symington, Andrew James. William Cullen Bryant: A Biographical Sketch. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1880. Book Primary 1880 Full Record
Burlingame, Michael, ed. An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay’s Interviews and Essays. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. Book Primary 1996 Full Record
Lamon, Ward Hill. The Life of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His Inauguration as President. Boston: Osgood, 1872. Book Primary 1872 Full Record
Renda, Lex. Running on the Record: Civil War-Era Politics in New Hampshire. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.
 Book Secondary 1997 Full Record
Whitney, Henry C. Lincoln the Citizen. Vol. 1 of Life of Lincoln. Edited by Marion Mills Miller. New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1908. Book Primary 1908 Full Record
Herndon, William H., and Jesse W. Weik. Herndon’s Lincoln. Edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Book Secondary 2006 Full Record
Sharrow, Walter G. “William Henry Seward: A Study in Nineteenth Century Politics and Nationalism, 1855-1861.” Ph.D. thesis, University of Rochester, 1964. Thesis Advanced Secondary 1964 Full Record
Burlingame, Michael. The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Book Secondary 1994 Full Record
Gillette, William. Jersey Blue: Civil War Politics in New Jersey, 1854-1865. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
 Book Secondary 1995 Full Record
Burlingame, Michael, ed. Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Book Primary 1998 Full Record
Brooks, Noah. Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. Book Primary 1908 Full Record
Johns, Jane Martin. “The Nomination of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency, an Unsolved Psychological Problem.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 10 (1917-18): 561-567. Journal Article Secondary 1917 Full Record
Tarbell, Ida M. The Life of Abraham Lincoln. 2 vols. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1902. Book Secondary 1902 Full Record
Davis, J. McCan. How Abraham Lincoln Became President. Springfield: The Illinois Co., 1909. Book Secondary 1909 Full Record
McClure, Alexander Kelly. Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times: Some Personal Recollections of War and Politics During the Lincoln Administration. Philadelphia: The Times Publishing Company, 1892. Book Primary 1892 Full Record
Paul, James Laughery. Pennsylvania's Soldiers' Orphan Schools. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1876.
 Book Primary 1876 Full Record
Egle, William Henry, ed. Andrew Gregg Curtin: His Life And Services. Philadelphia: Avil Printing Co., 1895. Book Primary 1895 Full Record
Carwardine, Richard J. Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Book Secondary 1993 Full Record
Johannsen, Robert Walter. Stephen A. Douglas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Book Secondary 1973 Full Record
Roll, Charles. Colonel Dick Thompson: The Persistent Whig. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1948. Book Secondary 1948 Full Record
Burlingame, Michael, ed. With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. Book Primary 2000 Full Record
Hanchett, William. Irish: Charles G. Halpine in Civil War America. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1970.
 Book Secondary 1970 Full Record
Bateman, Newton. Abraham Lincoln: An Address. Galesburg, IL: Cadmus Club, 1899. Book Primary 1899 Full Record
Wessen, Edward J. “Campaign Lives of Abraham Lincoln, 1860: An Annotated Bibliography.” Papers in Illinois History and Transactions for the Year 1937. Springfield: Illinois State Historical Society, 1938. Book Secondary 1938 Full Record
Scripps, John Locke. Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: 1860. Book Primary 1860 Full Record
Dyche, Grace Locke Scripps. “John Lock Scripps, Lincoln’s Campaign Biographer.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 17 (1924): 333-351. Journal Article Secondary 1860 Full Record
Zane, Charles S. “Lincoln as I Knew Him.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 14 (1921-22): 74-84. Journal Article Secondary 1860 Full Record
Knoles, George Harmon, ed. The Crisis of the Union, 1860-1861. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965. Book Secondary 1965 Full Record
Luebke, Frederick C., ed. Ethnic Voters and the Election of Lincoln. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971. Book Secondary 1971 Full Record
Leonard, John W., ed. Who’s Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Living Men and Women of the United States, 1899-1900. Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Co., 1899. Book Secondary 1899 Full Record
Davis, William C. Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974.
 Book 1974 Full Record
Ceremonies at the Reception of Welcome to the Colored Soldiers of Pennsylvania, in the City of Harrisburg, Nov. 14th, 1865, by the Garnet League (Harrisburg: Telegraph Steam Book and Job Office, 1865).
 Book Primary 1865 Full Record
McDonald, Cornelia Peake. A Woman's Civil War: A Diary, with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862. Edited by Minrose C. Gwin. New York: Gramercy Books, 2003.
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Stone, Kate. Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868, edited by John Q. Anderson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1955.
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Shepherd, Henry Elliot. Narrative of Prison Life at Baltimore and Johnson's Island, Ohio. Baltimore: Commercial Ptg. & Sta. Co., 1917.
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Shepherd, Henry Elliot. Life of Robert Edward Lee. New York: Neale Publishing Co, 1906. Book Primary 1906 Full Record
Crawford, Samuel Wylie. The Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1887.
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Torrey, Jesse. A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States. Philadelphia, 1817.
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Bradford, Sarah H. Harriet, the Moses of Her People. New York: Geo. R. Lockwood and Son, 1886. Book Primary 1886 Full Record
Benton, Thomas Hart. Historical and Legal Examination of that Part of Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857. Book Primary 1857 Full Record
Baylor, George. Bull Run to Bull Run: or, Four years in the Army of Northern Virginia. Richmond: B. F. Johnson Publishing Co., 1900.
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Conrad, Thomas Nelson. A Confederate Spy: A Thrilling History of Scouting Life in the Southern Army. New York: J.S. Ogilive Publishing Company Company, of Rose Street, 1892. Book Primary 1892 Full Record
Finkelman, Paul. “Lincoln and the Preconditions for Emancipation: The Moral Grandeur of a Bill of Lading.” In Lincoln’s Proclamation: Race, Place, and the Paradoxes of Emancipation, edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger, 13-44. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Book Chapter Secondary Secondary 2009 Full Record
Finkelman, Paul. “The Civil War, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment: Understanding Who Freed the Slaves.” In The Promises of Liberty: The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment, edited by Alexander Tsesis, 36 – 57. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Book Chapter Secondary Secondary 2010 Full Record
Finkelman, Paul. “Lincoln, Emancipation and the Limits of Constitutional Change.” Supreme Court Review (2008): 349–387. Journal Article Secondary 2008 Full Record