Articles and Essays
This list includes articles from the September 2009 Journal of American History Lincoln special issue and articles, a review essay, and notes and documents essays with the name “Lincoln” in their titles that were published in the JAH and Mississippi Valley Historical Review from June 1914 through June 2009. To download a pdf of an article click the
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2001–present
- “Young Men for War”: The Wide Awakes and Lincoln’s 1860 Presidential Campaign

by Jon Grinspan,
September 2009, Vol. 96, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln and the Ethics of Emancipation: Universalism, Nationalism, Exceptionalism

by Dorothy Ross,
September 2009, Vol. 96, No. 2, Journal of American History - The Not-So-Grand Review: Abraham Lincoln in the Journal of American History

by Allen C. Guelzo,
September 2009, Vol. 96, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln Theme 2.0

by Matthew Pinsker,
September 2009, Vol. 96, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s America 2.0

by Edward L. Ayers,
September 2009, Vol. 96, No. 2, Journal of American History - Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre

by Catherine Clinton,
September 2009, Vol. 96, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln Reconsidered

by Michael F. Holt,
September 2009, Vol. 96, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln, Slavery, and the Nation

by Mark E. Neely Jr.,
September 2009, Vol. 96, No. 2, Journal of American History - Prospects for “Lincoln 2.5”

by Douglas L. Wilson,
September 2009, Vol. 96, No. 2, Journal of American History - Interchange: The Global Lincoln

by Eugenio F. Biagini, David W. Blight, Carolyn P. Boyd, Richard Carwardine, Kevin K. Gaines, Vinay Lal, Nicola Miller, Jörg Nagler, Jay Sexton, Adam I. P. Smith, and Odd Arne Westad,
September 2009, Vol. 96, No. 2, Journal of American History - “Houses Divided: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Political Landscape of 1858,”

article by Allen C. Guelzo,
September 2007, Vol. 94, No. 2, Journal of American History
1991–2000
- “A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939–1963,”

article by Scott A. Sandage,
June 1993, Vol. 80, No. 1, Journal of American History
1961–1990
- No entries
1951–1960
- “The Origins and Purpose of Lincoln’s ‘House-Divided’ Speech,”

article by Don E. Fehrenbacher,
March 1960, Vol. 46, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - “The Conspiracy to Implicate the Confederate Leaders in Lincoln’s Assassination,”

article by Seymour J. Frank,
March 1954, Vol. 40, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - “Abraham Lincoln—Principle and Pragmatism in Politics: A Review Article,”

review essay by T. Harry Williams,
June 1953, Vol. 40, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
1941–1950
- “Lincoln’s Gadfly—Adam Gurowski,”

article by LeRoy H. Fischer,
December 1949, Vol. 36, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - “Senator Beveridge, J. Franklin Jameson, and Abraham Lincoln,”

notes and documents essay edited by Elizabeth Donnan and Leo F. Stock,
March 1949, Vol. 35, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - “Lincoln and the Territorial Patronage: The Ascendancy of the Radicals in the West,”

article by Vincent G. Tegeder,
June 1948, Vol. 35, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - “Anna Elizabeth Dickinson and the Civil War: For and against Lincoln,”

article by James Harvey Young,
June 1944, Vol. 31, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
1931–1940
- “Lincoln and the Governorship of Oregon,”

notes and documents essay edited by Paul I. Miller,
December 1936, Vol. 23, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - “Zachariah Chandler’s Part in the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln,”

notes and documents essay edited by Winfred A. Harbison,
September 1935, Vol. 22, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
1921–1930
- “A Noble Fragment: Beveridge’s Life of Lincoln,”

article by William E. Barton,
March 1929, Vol. 15, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
1914–1920
- “President Lincoln and the Illinois Radical Republicans,”

article by Arthur C. Cole,
March 1918, Vol. 4, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
