- List of Presidents of the United States / 16th
- President of the United States
- American Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln assassination / Assassinated
- History of the United States Republican Party / Republican
- lawyer
- Illinois
- Illinois House of Representatives / state legislator
- United States House of Representatives
- United States Senate / Senate
- slavery in the United States
- Republican Party (United States) / Republican Party
- United States presidential election, 1860 / elected president
- Secession in the United States / secessionist
- Confederate States of America
- slavery
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution / Thirteenth Amendment
- Military rank / generals
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Trent Affair
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland / Britain
- Union (American Civil War) / Union
- Border states (Civil War) / border slave states
- United States presidential election, 1864 / 1864 presidential election
- Copperheads (politics) / Copperheads
- Radical Republican (USA) / Radical Republicans
- Gettysburg Address
- Reconstruction era of the United States / Reconstruction
- Abraham Lincoln assassination / His assassination in 1865
- martyr
- Historical rankings of United States Presidents / greatest U.S. Presidents
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Personal life
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Childhood and education
- Thomas Lincoln
- Nancy Hanks
- log cabin
- Hardin County, Kentucky
- LaRue County, Kentucky / LaRue County
- Thirteen Colonies
- Samuel Lincoln
- Hingham, Massachusetts
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- Hingham, Norfolk / England
- Hard-shell Baptists / Hardshell Baptist
- Perry County, Indiana / Perry County
- Spencer County, Indiana / Spencer County
- Northwest Territory
- milk sickness
- Sarah Bush Lincoln / Sarah Bush Johnston
- Macon County, Illinois
- Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site / new homestead
- Coles County, Illinois
- Sangamon River
- New Salem, Menard County, Illinois / New Salem
- Sangamon County, Illinois / Sangamon County
- Denton Offutt
- New Orleans, Louisiana / New Orleans
- Illinois River / Illinois
- Mississippi River / Mississippi
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Marriage and family
- Mary Todd Lincoln / Mary Todd
- Robert Todd Lincoln
- Phillips Exeter Academy
- Harvard College
- Edward Baker Lincoln
- William Wallace Lincoln / William "Willie" Wallace Lincoln
- Washington, D.C.
- Tad Lincoln / Thomas "Tad" Lincoln
- Chicago
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Early political career and military service
- Illinois General Assembly
- Whig Party (United States) / Whig Party
- Beardstown and Sangamon Canal / Sangamon River
- Commentaries on the Laws of England
- Admission to the bar in the United States / Admitted to the bar
- Springfield, Illinois
- John T. Stuart
- William Herndon
- Illinois House of Representatives
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Illinois Politics
- United States House of Representatives / U.S. House of Representatives
- Henry Clay
- Mexican-American War / war
- Mexico
- James Knox Polk / President Polk
- Zachary Taylor
- U.S. presidential election, 1848 / 1848 Whig Presidential nomination
- Oregon Territory
- bar (law) / bar
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- Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Prairie lawyer
- barge
- railroad
- Alton Railroad / Alton & Sangamon Railroad
- James A. Barret
- Illinois Supreme Court
- William "Duff" Armstrong
- James Preston Metzker
- judicial notice
- Farmer's Almanac
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Republican politics 1854–1860
- Missouri Compromise
- Stephen A. Douglas
- popular sovereignty
- Abraham Lincoln Peoria speech / Peoria Speech
- Free Soil Party / free soil
- Lyman Trumbull
- James Buchanan / Buchanan
- Lecompton Constitution
- slave state
- Lincoln's House Divided Speech / his famous speech
- Gospel of Mark / Mark
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Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858
- The Slave Power
- republicanism
- democracy
- Freeport Doctrine
- Cooper Union speech / speech at Cooper Union
- Noah Brooks
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1860 Presidential Election
- Horace Greeley
- William H. Seward
- Salmon P. Chase
- Decatur, Illinois / Decatur
- John C. Breckinridge
- John Bell (Tennessee politician) / John Bell
- Constitutional Union Party (United States) / Constitutional Union Party
- Electoral fusion / fusion tickets
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Presidency and the Civil War
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Secession winter 1860–1861
- South Carolina
- Delaware
- Maryland
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- Tennessee
- Kentucky
- Missouri
- Arkansas
- Crittenden Compromise
- Missouri Compromise / Missouri line of 1820
- Tierra del Fuego
- Baltimore Plot / evaded possible assassins in Baltimore
- German American
- Turners
- Lincoln's First Inaugural / First Inaugural
- United States Constitution
- Articles of Confederation
- Corwin Amendment
- Jeremiah S. Black
- Joseph Holt
- Edwin M. Stanton
- Allan Nevins
- William Tecumseh Sherman
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Fighting begins: 1861–1862
- Battle of Fort Sumter / Fort Sumter
- Clement Vallandigham
- Ex parte Merryman
- Baltimore, Maryland / Baltimore
- Baltimore riot of 1861 / fought with Union troops traveling south
- George William Brown
- List of mayors of Baltimore, Maryland / Mayor of Baltimore
- Fort McHenry
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Emancipation Proclamation
- compensated emancipation
- "The Liberator," ''National Review'' (March 8, 2004) reviewing Allen C. Guelzo, ''Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America,'' (2004) online
- Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution / Thirteenth Amendment
- Altoona, Pennsylvania
- War Governors' Conference
- George B. McClellan
- Army of the Potomac
- Abraham Lincoln on slavery#Colonization / colonies
- Frederick Douglass
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Gettysburg Address
- Battle of Gettysburg
- New York Draft Riots
- Governor of Pennsylvania
- Andrew Curtin
- Gettysburg National Cemetery / Soldiers' National Cemetery
- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- 20 (number) / score
- Civil War
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1864 election and second inauguration
- Battle of Gettysburg / Gettysburg
- Battle of Vicksburg / Vicksburg
- Third Battle of Chattanooga / Chattanooga
- Robert E. Lee / Lee's
- Andrew Johnson
- War Democrats / War Democrat
- National Union Party (United States) / Union Party
- Copperheads (politics) / Peace wing
- William Tecumseh Sherman / Sherman's
- Atlanta, Georgia / Atlanta
- Lincoln's second inaugural address / second inaugural address
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Conducting the war effort
- Edwin M. Stanton / Edwin Stanton
- William H. Seward / William Seward
- Gideon Welles
- George B. McClellan / McClellan
- First Battle of Bull Run
- Winfield Scott
- United States Military Academy / West Point
- Peninsula Campaign
- Richmond, Virginia / Richmond
- Virginia Peninsula / peninsula
- James River (Virginia) / James
- York River (Virginia) / York Rivers
- Democratic Party (United States) / Democrat
- John Pope (military officer) / John Pope
- Army of Virginia
- Second Battle of Bull Run
- Sioux
- Tad Lincoln / Tad
- Battle of Antietam
- Ambrose Burnside
- Battle of Fredericksburg / Fredericksburg
- Joseph Hooker
- Battle of Chancellorsville
- Gettysburg Campaign
- George Meade
- Third Battle of Chattanooga / Chattanooga
- Overland Campaign
- attrition warfare / war of attrition
- Battle of the Wilderness / Wilderness
- Battle of Cold Harbor / Cold Harbor
- Siege of Petersburg / Petersburg
- Allan Pinkerton
- John Alexander McClernand
- William Tecumseh Sherman / Sherman
- Philip Sheridan / Sheridan
- Shenandoah Valley
- Georgia (U.S. state) / Georgia
- Sherman's March to the Sea
- African American
- Jubal Anderson Early
- Battle of Fort Stevens / raid on Washington, D.C.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Reconstruction
- Radical Republican (USA) / Radical Republicans
- Thaddeus Stevens
- Charles Sumner
- Benjamin Wade
- Ten percent plan / Amnesty Proclamation
- Louisiana
- Wade-Davis Bill
- Pocket veto / pocket-vetoed
- Jefferson Davis / Jefferson Davis's
- Appomattox Court House
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Home front
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Redefining Republicanism
- rhetoric
- Republicanism in the United States / republican values
- U.S. Constitution / Constitution
- United States Declaration of Independence / Declaration of Independence
- Cooper Union speech
- Reconstruction era of the United States / Reconstruction
- state sovereignty
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Civil liberties suspended
- Union blockade / blockade
- habeas corpus
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Domestic measures
- veto
- Homestead Act
- Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act
- agriculture / agricultural
- university / universities
- First Transcontinental Railroad
- income tax
- tariff
- National Banking Act
- United States Department of Agriculture / Department of Agriculture
- United States Note
- banknote / paper currency
- United States Department of the Treasury / Treasury Department
- cotton
- John Pope (military officer) / John Pope
- Dakota War of 1862 / Sioux Uprising
- Minnesota
- death warrant
- Sioux#Isanti (Santee or Dakota) / Santee Dakota
- death penalty / execution
- reprieve
- Thanksgiving (United States) / Thanksgiving holiday
- James Madison / James Madison's
- 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation
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Medical history
- frostbite / frostbitten
- malaria
- physical trauma
- smallpox
- syphilis
- Marfan syndrome
- cardiovascular
- DNA
- multiple endocrine neoplasia
- constipation
- hypotonia
- cancer
- Edward Baker Lincoln / Eddie
- William Wallace Lincoln / Willie
- Tad Lincoln / Tad
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Assassination
- Clara Harris
- John Wilkes Booth
- kidnapping / kidnap
- First Lady of the United States / First Lady
- Ford's Theatre
- Vice President of the United States / Vice President
- United States Secretary of State / Secretary of State
- Ward Hill Lamon
- Our American Cousin
- Henry Rathbone
- Sic semper tyrannis
- United States Secretary of War / Secretary of War
- Charles Leale
- Mortal Wound / mortal
- Ford's Theatre#Petersen House / Petersen House
- Surgeon General of the United States Army / U.S. Army Surgeon General
- Joseph Barnes / Joseph K. Barnes
- National Museum of Health and Medicine / Army Medical Museum
- Lying in state / lie in state
- copperheads (politics) / Copperheads
- Lincoln Tomb
- Burial#Exhumation / exhumed
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Administration, Cabinet and Supreme Court appointments 1861-1865
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Noah Haynes Swayne
- Samuel Freeman Miller
- David Davis (Supreme Court justice) / David Davis
- Stephen Johnson Field
- Chief Justice of the United States / Chief Justice
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Religious and philosophical beliefs
- New Haven, Connecticut / New Haven
- Connecticut
- Whig Party (United States) / Whig
- liberalism / liberal
- capitalism
- religion / organized religion
- Calvinism / Calvinistic
- skepticism
- John Locke / Lockean
- Age of Enlightenment / Enlightenment
- economic liberalism
- United States Declaration of Independence / Declaration of Independence
- nativism (politics) / nativist
- Know Nothing
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Legacy and memorials
- Historical rankings of United States Presidents / greatest presidents in U.S. history
- LGBT rights in the United States / gay rights
- Log Cabin Republicans
- insurance
- Lincoln National Corporation
- Lincoln (automobile) / Lincoln automobile brand
- detnews.com / Michigan History
- ballistic missile
- submarine
- USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) / ''Abraham Lincoln'' (SSBN-602)
- aircraft carrier
- USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) / ''Abraham Lincoln'' (CVN-72)
- Liberty ship
- Spanish Civil War
- International Brigades
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade
- Lincoln, Nebraska / capital of Nebraska
- Lincoln, Illinois
- Lincoln Memorial
- United States five-dollar bill / Lincoln $5 bill
- Lincoln cent
- Mount Rushmore
- Lincoln Home National Historic Site
- New Salem, Menard County, Illinois / New Salem, Illinois
- Redlands, California
- List of U.S. state nicknames / state nickname
- Vehicle registration plates of Illinois / Illinois license plates
- County (United States) / Counties
- U.S. state
- Lincoln County, Arkansas / Arkansas
- Lincoln County, Colorado / Colorado
- Lincoln County, Idaho / Idaho
- Lincoln County, Kansas / Kansas
- Lincoln County, Minnesota / Minnesota
- Lincoln County, Mississippi / Mississippi
- Lincoln County, Montana / Montana
- Lincoln County, Nebraska / Nebraska
- Lincoln County, Nevada / Nevada
- Lincoln County, New Mexico / New Mexico
- Lincoln County, Oklahoma / Oklahoma
- Lincoln County, Oregon / Oregon
- Lincoln County, South Dakota / South Dakota
- Lincoln County, West Virginia / West Virginia
- Lincoln County, Washington / Washington
- Lincoln County, Wisconsin / Wisconsin
- Lincoln County, Wyoming / Wyoming
- Presidents Day (United States) / Presidents Day
- Lincoln's Birthday
- Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
- Library of Congress
- Hodgenville, Kentucky / Hodgenville
- Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
- Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery
- Elwood, Illinois
- Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum
- Harrogate, Tennessee
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Inventor
- patent
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Images of Lincoln
- United States five-dollar bill / American five dollar bill
- Daniel Chester French
- Proof coinage
- cameo
- obverse and reverse / obverse
- 50 State Quarters
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See also
- American School (economics) / American School
- Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
- Lincoln Memorial University
- List of assassinated American politicians
- List of United States Presidents who died in office
- References
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Further reading
- Isaac N. Arnold
- William Herndon (lawyer) / William H Herndon
- Lincoln
- Albert J. Beveridge / Beveridge, Albert J
- online edition
- online edition
- John Hay
- John George Nicolay
- Vol 1
- Vol 2
- Reinhard H Luthin
- Mr. Lincoln
- Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
- Abraham Lincoln (book) / Abraham Lincoln
- online edition
- online edition
- online edition
- online edition
- Lucius E. Chittenden / Chittenden, Lucius E.
- ''Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration''
- Google Book Search / Google Books
- online edition
- online version
- Library of America
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External links
- The Life of Lincoln by Henry Ketcham
- Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College
- Photographs of Abraham Lincoln
- The Lincoln Institute
- Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library
- Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln
- Lincoln quotes collected by Roger Norton
- The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
- The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
- President Lincolns Cottage
- Lincoln's Patent
- National Park Service Abraham Lincoln birthplace
- National Endowment for the Humanities Spotlight – Abraham Lincoln
- Research Center
- The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
- Lincoln Memorial
- Digitized books about Abraham Lincoln from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
- Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, Northern Illinois University Libraries
- ''Lincoln Home National Historic Site:A Place of Growth and Memory,'' lesson plan
- ''Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial: Forging Greatness during Lincoln's Youth,'' lesson plan
- Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress
- Essay on Abraham Lincoln and shorter essays on each member of his cabinet and First Lady from the Miller Center of Public Affairs