The Papers of Abraham Lincoln

FAIN: RQ-286973-22

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (Springfield, IL 62701-1004)
Daniel Worthington (Project Director: December 2021 to January 2026)

Preparation for online publication of materials from the political campaigns of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th president of the United States. (12 months)

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a documentary editing project dedicated to identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing online free of charge all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime (1809-1865). The Papers of Abraham Lincoln aspires to foster new and innovative scholarship on Abraham Lincoln, antebellum America, and the Civil War by replacing The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, which encompassed 6,769 documents in eight volumes and two supplemental volumes (1953-55, 1974, 1990), as the standard compilation of Lincoln documents. With the inclusion of incoming correspondence and newly discovered documents written by Lincoln, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln will offer scholars, students, and enthusiasts an additional 99,566 documents from which to evaluate Lincoln’s life and era. The project is responding to NEH’s “A More Perfect Union”: America at 250.