The year 1997 saw a rise in the number of books that were devoted to Abraham Lincoln. In general, particular emphasis has been on the question of the slavery issue in the time period leading up to Lincoln's presidency. Important new works by David W. Blight and Brooks D. Simpson, William Lee Miller, and Charles Heller all give further insight into the debates on and reactions to the slavery question. Another segment of importance to the Lincoln field has been the focus concerning primary source material in all areas dealing with Lincoln. John Rhodehamel and Louise Taper have compiled all of John Wilkes Booth's letters and correspondence into one work; Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis have painstakingly researched the communications that William Herndon had with people when he gathered his material on Abraham Lincoln; Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher have arranged the known words and statements attributed to Abraham Lincoln and given them a ranking by probability; and Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger have edited the complete diary that Abraham Lincoln's private secretary, John Hay, kept during the Civil War period. These works are just a sample of the continuing evaluation and reassessment of our sixteenth president. In addition, last year's "Lincolniana" in this journal promised to include Internet sites that were relevant to Abraham Lincoln. These plans have been slightly altered. Since last year's publication, the Abraham Lincoln Association has opened its own Internet site. The site ( www.alincolnassoc.com/abraham.htm ) incorporates and highlights Internet sites that pertain to Abraham Lincoln. Please be sure to examine the site for future articles, sites, and news.

Articles

"Abe Lincoln, Rewrite Man." U.S. News and World Report, Feb. 17, 1997, 63.
Ackerman, Donald. "Behind the Scenes with the Wide Awakes." Rail Splitter 2 (Jan. 1997): 8–9. Page  [End Page 55]
———. "Enemy Camp: Collecting Jeff Davis." Rail Splitter 2 (Apr. 1997): 1, 3.
———. "The Rail Splitter Rides the Rails." Rail Splitter 2 (Oct. 1996): 1, 3–4.
Barro, Robert J. "The Largest Error in American History?" Across the Board 33 (June 1996): 12–13.
Bassuk, Dan. "Lincoln and Washington: A Well-Read Pair." Rail Splitter 2 (Jan. 1997): 5–6.
Bauer, Kim M. "Donations Made to ISHL's Lincoln Collection." Dispatch/News ser. 16, vol. 4 (Spring 1997): 16.
———. "Lincolniana in 1996." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 18 (Summer 1997): 63–77.
———. "Rare Lincoln Imprints Donated to ISHL." Dispatch/News ser. 16, vol. 4 (Summer 1997): 5.
Beard, Bill. "Abraham Lincoln as a Railroad Lawyer." Lincoln Newsletter 15 (Spring 1997): 1, 6–8.
Benner, M. L. "The Lincoln Legal Papers and the New Age of Documentary Editing." Computers and the Humanities 30 (May 1997): 365–72.
Bray, Robert. "The P. Quinn Harrison Murder Trial." Lincoln Herald 99 (Summer 1997): 59–79.
Bruns, Roger A. "On a Temperance Stork, Recording History and Mathew Brady." Record 4 (Sept. 1997): 4.
Burgess, Larry E. "John Wesley Hill, Robert Watchorn, and Abraham Lincoln." Lincoln Herald 99 (Spring 1997): 15–20.
Carnahan, Burrus M. "Abraham Lincoln—Spy?" Lincolnian 15 (May–June 1997): 2.
Carwardine, Richard J. "Lincoln, Evangelical Religion, and American Political Culture in the Era of the Civil War." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 18 (Winter 1997): 27–55.
Chavez, Donna M. "Following in the Footsteps of Abe." Rotarian 141 (Oct. 1997): 34–37.
Chrisman, Richard. "'For God and Country': Illinois Methodist Support for President Lincoln during the Civil War." Lincoln Herald 99 (Summer 1997): 80–89.
Collom, Larry D. "Lincoln: How Tall Is the Tale?" Prime Life Times 1 (Sept. 1996): 1.
"Conservation Basics." Rail Splitter 2 (Apr. 1997): 19–20.
Coryell, Janet L. "The Lincoln Colony: Aaron Columbus Burr's Proposed Colonization of British Honduras." Civil War History 43 (Mar. 1997): 5–16.
Crabtree, Susan, and Gene Koprowski. "Americana." Insight, Feb. 10, 1997, 42. Page  [End Page 56]
Crook, William. "An Eyewitness Account." Rail Splitter 2 (Jan. 1997): 15–18.
———. "An Eyewitness Account." Rail Splitter 2 (Oct. 1996): 15–19.
DeNeal, Gary. "Lincoln at the Old Slave House?" Springhouse 14 (June 1997): 26–29.
———. "Springhouse Update, Including Another Abraham Lincoln Trousers Story." Springhouse 14 (Aug. 1997): 16–18.
Dwyer, B. J. "Charles S. Zane: Lincoln's Successor as Herndon's Law Partner." Lincoln Newsletter 16 (Summer 1997): 1, 6–7.
Egerton, Douglas R. "Averting a Crisis: The Proslavery Critique of the American Colonization Society." Civil War History 43 (Apr. 1997): 142–56.
Ely, M. Lynda. "Memorializing Lincoln: Whitman's 'Revision' of James Speed's Oration upon the Inauguration of the Bust of Abraham Lincoln." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 14 (Spring 1997): 176.
Emerick, Clifford. "Fun with Lincoln Trading Cards." Rail Splitter 2 (Jan. 1997): 1, 3–4.
Francis, Charles. "How to Stop Boring Your Audience to Death." Executive Speeches, June–July 1997, 9–12.
"From the Collections at the Lincoln College Museum." Lincoln Newsletter 15 (Spring 1997): 4–5.
Fry, Michael J. "One Generation Away." Lincoln Herald 99 (Summer 1997): 91–92.
Gilmour, Peter. "Abe, the Baptist." U.S. Catholic 62 (Feb. 1997): 3.
Goldman, Michael. "The Image of History." Boy's Life 87 (Sept. 1997): 40–43.
Goldstein, J. H. "Lincoln's Vertical Strabismus." Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmologic Strabismus 34 (Mar.–Apr. 1997): 118–20.
Guelzo, Allen C. "Abraham Lincoln and the Doctrine of Necessity." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 18 (Winter 1997): 57–81.
Hallam, Keith. "Mary Lincoln's Other Home." Rail Splitter 3 (Sept. 1997): 29.
[Hamilton, Charles]. "Years of Looking at Lincoln: An Interview with Charles Hamilton." Rail Splitter 2 (Apr. 1997): 1, 5–10.
Hammond, Christie. "William O. Stoddard: Lincoln's Third Secretary." Lincoln Memorial Association Newsletter 26 (Spring–Summer 1997): 8.
Hanchett, William. "Lincoln's Assassination Revisited." Lincoln Herald 99 (Spring 1997): 34–43.
Hanna, William F. "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. James Page  [End Page 57] Campbell: A Trial from the Boston Draft Riot." Lincoln Herald 99 (Spring 1997): 44–50.
Harper, Helen Leale, Jr. "Assistant Surgeon Charles A. Leale, U.S. Volunteers." Lincolnian 15 (Nov.–Dec. 1996): 5–6.
Harrelson, Ralph S. "Great-Grandmother Danced with Lincoln." Springhouse 14 (Feb. 1997): 22.
Hay, John. "Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln." Springhouse 14 (Feb. 1997): 39–43.
"Here Is All that Remains of Pullman's Pioneer of '65." Update: Historic Pullman, July–Aug. 1997, 3.
Hernandez, Catherine. "Will the Real Washington and Lincoln Please Stand Up?" Schooldays 16 (Jan. 1997): 52–53.
Heterick, R. C. "Willie Mays Notwithstanding: A Memorable Catch, Abraham Lincoln, and the Supreme Court." Educom Review 32 (Apr. 1997): 56.
Holzer, Harold. "Lincoln's Last Warning—In Verse." Lincoln Herald 99 (Spring 1997): 28–33.
———. "Too Ricketty to Venerate." American Heritage 48 (July 1997): 94–95.
Hubbard, Charles M. "Abraham Lincoln's Legacy in Tennessee." Courier 36 (Oct. 1997): 1, 3–6.
———. "Lincoln and the Chicken Bone Case." American History 32 (Sept. 1997): 30.
Hughett, Barbara. "From the Collections at Lincoln College Museum." Lincoln Newsletter 16 (Summer 1997): 4–5.
———. "From the Collections at the Lincoln College Museum." Lincoln Newsletter 16 (Fall 1997): 4–5.
"In the Marketplace." Rail Splitter 3 (Sept. 1997): 15–24.
Joens, David. "Lincoln Statues in Illinois." Cook-Witter Report 13 (Feb. 26, 1997): 1–4.
Jordan, Charles. "Looking Back: Witness to the Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln." Northern New Hampshire Magazine, Apr. 1997, 4–7.
Kaltenheuser, Skip. "Patent Pending?" Barron's, Aug. 4, 1997, 55.
Kanter, David J. "Two Mothers Influenced Lincoln." LifeTimes 12 (Feb. 1997): 8.
Kurtz, Michael J. "Documenting Conflict: Emancipation in the Federal City." Record 4 (Sept. 1997): 20.
Leetz, Kenneth L. "Abraham Lincoln, Psychotherapist to the Nation: The Use of Metaphors." American Journal of Psychotherapy 51 (Winter 1997): 45–53. Page  [End Page 58]
Lincoln, Abraham. "The Bear Hunt." Springhouse 14 (Aug. 1997): 14–15.
———. "Address before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois." Illinois Heritage 1 (Fall 1997): 26–28.
"Lincoln Letter Sold." Blue and Gray Magazine 14 (Aug. 1997): 44.
"Lincoln Long Nine Toast Remembered." Menard County Review, Aug. 8, 1997, 1, 3.
"Lincoln News: Here and Across the Nation." Lincolnian 15 (July–Aug. 1997): 4–5.
"Lincoln—Not Lincoln?: A Forgery Quiz." Rail Splitter 3 (Sept. 1997): 3–6, 35.
"Looking for Abe: Images of Lincoln in Washington." Lincolnian 15 (July–Aug. 1997): 5–6.
Lord, Lewis J. "Looking for Lincoln." U.S. News and World Report, Feb. 17, 1997, 62–63.
Lutz, Stuart. "The American Colonization Society." Manuscripts 49 (Summer 1997): 205–15.
Maltz, Earl M. "The Idea of the Proslavery Constitution." Journal of the Early Republic 17 (Spring 1997): 37–59.
"Maryland Legislators Plan to Clear Dr. Samuel Mudd." Blue and Gray Magazine 14 (Aug. 1997): 42.
May, George W. "Did Lincoln Visit Fort Massac?" Springhouse 14 (Feb. 1997): 31–32.
McCollum, Kelly. "Web Site Features Lincoln's Papers." Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar. 7, 1997, A25.
Miller, Fayneese, and Robert Biral. "Epilogue: What to a Black Person Is Affirmative Action?" American Behavioral Scientist 41 (Oct. 1997): 272–79.
Miller, Tim R. "Abraham Lincoln and the Art of Billiards." Lincoln Lore, no. 1848 (Spring 1997): 3–11.
———. "Abraham Lincoln and the Art of Billiards." Lincoln Lore, no. 1849 (Summer 1997): 4–11.
"Missing Lincoln Warrant Returned to Illinois but Recent Press Comments Unwise." Manuscript Society News 18 (Winter 1997): 1–6.
Mounts, Willard. "What Happened to President Lincoln's Family after His Assassination?" Rail Splitter 2 (Oct. 1996): 6–7.
Nelson, Michael. "Rethinking Presidential Scholarship." OAH Magazine of History 11 (Summer 1997): 5–9.
Nelson, Ronald L. "The Bear Hunt." Springhouse 14 (Aug. 1997): 13.
[Newman, Ralph]. "Decades of Dealing: An Interview with Ralph Newman." Rail Splitter 3 (Sept. 1997): 1, 7–14, 25–27. Page  [End Page 59]
Noll, Mark A. "'Both Pray to the Same God': The Singularity of Lincoln's Faith in the Era of the Civil War." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 18 (Winter 1997): 1–26.
O'Connor, Sandra Day. "Henry Clay and the Supreme Court." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 94 (Autumn 1996): 353–62.
O'Harra, Don. "Lawton Speaks on Lincoln Family of Fountain Green." McDonough County Historical Society Newsletter 16 (Summer 1997): 2–3.
Ostendorf, Lloyd. "Faces Lincoln Knew: Photographs from the Past." Lincoln Herald 99 (Summer 1997): 90.
———. "Lincoln Made His Mark in Ohio." Lincoln Herald 99 (Spring 1997): 12–14.
Peterson, Roger. "Descendants of the Hanks Brothers from the Decatur Review." Central Illinois Genealogical Quarterly 33 (Fall 1997): 114.
Planck, Gary R. "Lincoln News Digest." Lincoln Herald 99 (Spring 1997): 51–56.
———. "Lincoln News Digest." Lincoln Herald 99 (Summer 1997): 93–100.
Prokopowicz, Gerald J. "Lincoln the Athlete." Lincoln Lore, no. 1849 (Summer 1997): 2–3.
Radeleff, Mark C. "Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties in California during the Civil War." Lincoln Memorial Association Newsletter 26 (Spring–Summer 1997): 2, 9–12.
———. "The Forgotten Letters of the Civil War." Lincoln Memorial Association Newsletter 26 (Spring–Summer 1997): 3–5.
Rafuse, Ethan S. "Typhoid and Tumult: Lincoln's Response to General McClellan's Bout with Typhoid Fever during the Winter of 1861–62." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 18 (Summer 1997): 1–16.
"Rail Splinters." Rail Splitter 3 (Sept. 1997): 32–34.
Rawa, Connie. "Myra and Mrs. Lincoln." Palatine Palaver 21 (Mar. 1997): 3.
"Remembering Mary Lincoln's Tragedies." Jacksonville Genealogical and Historical Society Quarterly 25 (June 1997): 27–29.
Robbins, Peggy. "Ordnance: No Less a Judge than Abraham Lincoln Declared Artist Thomas Nast 'Our Best Recruiting Sergeant.'" America's Civil War 10 (July 1997): 26–28, 90.
Rodgers, Thomas E. "Civil War Letters as Historical Sources." Indiana Magazine of History 93 (June 1997): 105–10.
Sampson, James R. "Music in the American Civil War." Rock Island County Historical Society 22 (Fall 1997): 1–2. Page  [End Page 60]
Schwartz, Barry. "Collective Memory and History: How Abraham Lincoln Became a Symbol of Racial Equality." Sociological Quarterly 38 (Fall 1997): 469–96.
———. "Memory as a Cultural System: Abraham Lincoln in World War I." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 17 (June 1997): 22–58.
Simon, Paul. "Essay on Lincoln's Lyceum Address." Illinois Heritage 1 (Fall 1997): 24–25.
"Speakers Announced for February Lincoln Symposium and ALA Banquet." Lincoln Newsletter 16 (Fall 1997): 2.
Stanley, Charles. "Abraham Lincoln and the Yates Phalanx." Lincoln Newsletter 16 (Fall 1997): 1, 6–7.
Steiner, Mark E. "Lawyers and Legal Change in Antebellum America: Learning from Lincoln." University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 74 (Spring 1997): 427–64.
Stevenson, James A. "Honest Abe or Inveterate Liar?" Lincoln Herald 99 (Spring 1997): 21–27.
[Stowell, Daniel]. "Litigating Morality: Alcohol." Lincoln Legal Briefs, no. 42 (Apr.–June 1997): 2–4.
———. "Litigating Morality: Gambling." Lincoln Legal Briefs, no. 40 (Oct.–Dec. 1996): 2–4.
———. "Litigating Morality: Sexuality." Lincoln Legal Briefs, no. 41 (Jan.–Mar. 1997): 2–3.
Swanson, Wendy. "The Case of the Missing Warrants." Lincolnian 15 (Nov.–Dec. 1996): 4–5.
Tappan, Robert M. "Music and Mayhem: Shrine Acquires Civil War Document." Lincoln Memorial Association Newsletter 26 (Spring–Summer 1997): 1, 6–7.
Temple, Wayne C. "Charles Henry Philbrick: Private Secretary to President Lincoln." Lincoln Herald 99 (Spring 1997): 6–11.
"Time Traveller: Springfield, Illinois." American History 32 (Sept. 1997): 60.
"Twelfth Annual Lincoln Colloquium to Be Held on Saturday, October 25." Lincoln Newsletter 16 (Fall 1997): 3, 8.
Williams, Frank J. "Lincolniana in 1996." Lincoln Lore, no. 1847 (Winter 1997): 3–15.
Wright, Esmond. "That Man in the White House." Contemporary Review 269 (Oct. 1996): 176–84.
Yari, Ethel. "Teenage Lincoln Sculptor." American History 32 (July 1997): 22.
"You Decide." Rail Splitter 3 (Sept. 1997): 28.
Zollinger, Vivian. "'I Take My Pen in Hand': Civil War Letters from Page  [End Page 61] Owen County, Indiana, Soldiers." Indiana Magazine of History 93 (June 1997): 111–96.
Zorn, Eric. "Still Trying to Get Right with Lincoln." Lincoln Lore, no. 1849 (Summer 1997): 9 (rpt. from Chicago Tribune).

Book, Video, and CD-ROM Reviews

Blue, Frederick J. Book review of Why the Civil War Came, edited by Gabor S. Boritt. Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 18 (Summer 1997): 55–61.
Breiseth, Christopher N. Book review of Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War, by James M. McPherson. Illinois Historical Journal 90 (Spring 1997): 70–71.
Brent, Joseph E. Book review of The Papers of Andrew Johnson: Vol. 12: February–August 1867, edited by Paul H. Bergeron. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 94 (Autumn 1996): 446–47.
Byrne, Frank L. Book review of Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, compiled and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher. Civil War History 43 (Apr. 1997): 173–74.
Cimprich, John. Book review of The Papers of Andrew Johnson: Vol. 12: February–August 1867, edited by Paul H. Bergeron. Journal of Southern History 63 (May 1997): 424.
Crofts, Daniel. Book review of Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress, by William Lee Miller. Reviews in American History 25 (June 1997): 243–47.
Crouthamel, James L. Book review of James Buchanan and the Political Crisis of the 1850s, edited by Michael J. Birkner. New York History 77 (July 1996): 350.
Currie-McDaniel, Ruth. Book review of Portrait of an Abolitionist: A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809–1867, by Charles E. Heller. Journal of Southern History 63 (May 1997): 397–98.
Damson, Joseph G. Book review of A Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, by Robert J. Schneller Jr. Civil War History 43 (Apr. 1997): 180–82.
Davis, Rodney O. Book review of Finding the Missing Link: A Promissory Note and the Lost Town of Pappsville, by Thomas F. Schwartz. Lincoln Herald 99 (Summer 1997): 107.
———. Book review of Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, compiled and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher. Indiana Magazine of History 93 (June 1997): 203–5.
Delbanco, Andrew. Book review of Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, compiled and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher. New Republic, Jan. 20, 1997, 26–30. Page  [End Page 62]
De Santis, Vincent P. Book review of Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald. New England Quarterly 69 (Dec. 1996): 658–60.
Desjardin, Thomas A. Book review of Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War, by James M. McPherson. Journal of American History 84 (June 1997): 240–41.
Eberhart, George M. Book review of Mary Surratt: An American Tragedy, by Elizabeth Steger Trindal. College and Research Libraries News 58 (Feb. 1997): 109.
Eubank, Damon. Book review of Lincoln and the Illinois Supreme Court, by Dan Bannister. Lincoln Herald 99 (Summer 1997): 106.
Field, Phyllis F. Book review of Mary Surratt: An American Tragedy, by Elizabeth Steger Trindal. Illinois Historical Journal 90 (Spring 1997): 78–79.
Fischer, Roger A. Book review of An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays, edited by Michael Burlingame. Choice 34 (Nov. 1996): 526–27.
George, Joseph, Jr. Book review of Mary Surratt: An American Tragedy, by Elizabeth Steger Trindal. Lincoln Herald 99 (Summer 1997): 102–4.
———. Video review of The Lincoln Assassination, by A&E Television Network. Lincoln Herald 99 (Summer 1997): 104.
Gorak, David A. Book review of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-Election and the End of Slavery, by David E. Long. Lincoln Herald 99 (Summer 1997): 104–6.
———. Book review of Witness to War: The Civil War, 1861–1865, edited by Harold Holzer. Lincoln Herald 99 (Summer 1997): 101.
Griswold, Charles L., Jr. Book review of The Lincoln Persuasion: Remaking American Liberalism, by J. David Greenstone. American Scholar 66 (Winter 1997): 136–40.
Hamman, Vincent. Book review of The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln, with a forward by Garry Wills. Reading Teacher 50 (Nov. 1996): 245.
Harris, James Russell. Book review of "A People's Contest": The Union and Civil War, 1861–1865, 2d ed., by Phillip Shaw Paludan. Illinois Historical Journal 90 (Summer 1997): 138.
Harrison, Lowell H. Book review of Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, compiled and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 94 (Autumn 1996): 426–27.
Harrold, Stanley. Book review of The Evangelical War against Slavery and Caste: The Life and Times of John G. Fee, by Victor B. Howard. Journal of American History 84 (June 1997): 223–24.
Holzer, Harold. Book review of Recollected Words of Abraham Lin-Page  [End Page 63]coln, compiled and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher. Illinois Historical Journal 90 (Summer 1997): 134–35.
Hutson, C. Kirk. Book review of The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past, by Jim Cullen. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 55 (Summer 1997): 245–47.
Johnson, Michael P. Book review of American Slavery, 1619–1877, by Peter Kolchin, with consulting editor Eric Foner. Journal of Southern History 63 (May 1997): 408–10.
Lamb, Brian. Book review of The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820–1861, by Stephen B. Oates. C-SPAN Booknotes program, Mar. 21, 1997.
Long, David E. Book review of "We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth, edited by James M. McPherson. Journal of Southern History 63 (May 1997): 411–13.
Lucas, M. Phillip. Book review of James Buchanan and the Political Crisis of the 1850s, edited by Michael J. Birkner. Illinois Historical Journal 90 (Spring 1997): 67–68.
Mackey, Thomas C. Book review of The Salmon P. Chase Papers:Vol. 3: Correspondence, 1858–March 1863, edited by John Niven. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 94 (Autumn 1996): 445–46.
Miller, Randall M. Book review of The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820–1861, by Stephen B. Oates. Library Journal, Feb. 15, 1997, 146.
Mitchell, William I. CD-ROM review of A House Divided: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, produced by Grafica Multimedia. OAH Magazine of History 11 (Spring 1997): 53.
Noyes, Edward. Book review of Abraham Lincoln and a Nation Worth Fighting For, by James A. Rawley. Illinois Historical Journal 90 (Summer 1997): 147–48.
Olsen, Otto H. Book review of The Papers of Andrew Johnson:Vol. 12: February–August 1867, edited by Paul H. Bergeron. Filson Club History Quarterly 71 (Apr. 1997): 241–42.
Owens, Patricia Ann. Book review of An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays, edited by Michael Burlingame. Illinois Historical Journal 90 (Spring 1997): 78.
Piehl, Kathy. Book review of Abraham Lincoln, Will You Ever Give Up? by Lloyd Uglow. School Library Journal 43 (July 1997): 88.
Rable, George C. Book review of America's Civil War, by Brooks D. Simpson. Civil War History 43 (Apr. 1997): 178–79.
Ramage, James A. Book review of April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War, by William A. Tidwell. Journal of Southern History 62 (Aug. 1996): 595–96. Page  [End Page 64]
Rawley, James A. Book review of Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet, by Wayne C. Temple. Illinois Historical Journal 90 (Spring 1997): 72–73.
Reynolds, Donald E. Book review of Southern Pamphlets on Secession, November 1860–April 1861, edited by John L. Wakelyn. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 95 (Winter 1997): 102–3.
Rice, Judith A. Book review of An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays, edited by Michael Burlingame. Civil War History 43 (Apr. 1997): 176–77.
Rietveld, Ronald D. Book review of The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America, edited by Mark E. Neely Jr. Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 18 (Summer 1997): 17–46.
Rightmyer, Don. Book review of "A Rising Thunder": From Lincoln's Election to the Battle of Bull Run, by Richard Wheeler. Infantry 86 (Sept. 1996): 51.
Rodriguez, Junius. Book review of The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Vol. 3: Correspondence, 1858–March 1863, edited by John Niven. Illinois Historical Journal 90 (Spring 1997): 72–73.
Rogers, Michael. Book review of Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs: A Diplomat in Carpet Slippers, by Jay Monaghan. Library Journal, June, 1997, 102.
———. Book review of Lincoln: A Biography, by Lord Charnwood. Library Journal, Feb. 15, 1997, 166.
———. Book reviews of Lincoln the President: Springfield to Gettysburg, by James G. Randall, and Lincoln the President: Midstream to the Last Full Measure, by James G. Randall and Richard N. Current. Library Journal, July, 1997, 132.
Roland, Charles P. Book review of We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts, edited by Timothy S. Good. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 94 (Autumn 1996): 427–29.
Schaeper, Thomas J. Book review of Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, by Daniel Walker Howe. Library Journal, May, 1997, 120.
Silbey, Joel H. Book review of Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress, by William Lee Miller. Journal of Southern History 63 (May 1997): 393–94.
Simon, John Y. Book review of Salmon P. Chase: A Biography, by John Niven. Lincoln Herald 99 (Summer 1997): 101–2.
———. Book review of "We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth, edited by James M. McPherson. American Historical Review 102 (Apr. 1997): 524–25.
Sizer, Lyde C. Book review of John Wilkes Booth: A Sister's Memoir, Page  [End Page 65] by Asia Booth Clarke, edited by Terry Alford. North Carolina Historical Review 74 (July 1997): 349–50.
Spence, Mary Lee. Book review of The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Vol. 3: Correspondence, 1858–March 1863, edited by John Niven. Documentary Editing 19 (June 1997): 49–50.
Trefousse, Hans L. Book review of Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet, by Wayne C. Temple. Civil War History 43 (Apr. 1997): 175–76.
Turner, Thomas R. Book review of Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War, by James M. McPherson. Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 18 (Summer 1997): 47–54.
Williams, Max R. Book review of The Papers of Andrew Johnson: Vol. 13: September 1867–March 1868, edited by Paul H. Bergeron. North Carolina Historical Review 74 (July 1997): 350–51.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Book review of Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era, edited by David W. Blight and Brooks D. Simpson. Reviews in American History 25 (Sept. 1997): 427–32.

Theses

Harrington, Dale B. "The Constitution versus the Civil War: Abraham Lincoln Adheres to the Founding Fathers." Master's thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 1996.
Lashley, G. Joseph. "The Equivocal Death Case of John Wilkes Booth." Master's thesis, National University, San Diego, California, 1997.
McClintock, Russell. "Abraham Lincoln and the Secession Crisis, November 1860–April 1861." Master's thesis, Providence College, Rhode Island, 1997.
Smith, Trevor Augustine. "The States of Disloyalty: Abraham Lincoln and the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus." Master's thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1996.

Books, Videos, Cassette Tapes, and CD-ROMs

A&E Television Networks. Abraham Lincoln: Preserving the Union. Videocassette. New York: A&E Television Networks, 1996.
Bartlett, Blair Everett. The Descendants of Doctor Hans and Sarah (née Roeloffson) Kierstead and How They Are Connected with President Abraham Lincoln and Anneke Jans (Former Owner of the Trinity Church Estates in New York City, 1612–1996). Saint John, New Brunswick: B. E. Bartlett, 1996. Page  [End Page 66]
Belz, Herman. Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights during the Civil War Era. New York: Fordham University Press, 1997.
Bial, Raymond. Where Lincoln Walked. New York: Walker, 1997.
Birkner, Michael J., ed. James Buchanan and the Political Crisis of the 1850s. Cranbury, N.J.: Susquehanna University Press, in association with Associated University Presses, 1996.
Bishop, Jim. The Day Lincoln Was Shot. Prince Frederick, Md.: Recorded Books, 1997.
Blight, David W., and Brooks D. Simpson. Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997.
Bond, James E. No Easy Walk to Freedom: Reconstruction and the Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997.
Burlingame, Michael. Abraham Lincoln and Political Correctness: Delivered at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Lincoln Dinner. Redlands, Calif.: Lincoln Memorial Shrine, 1997.
Burlingame, Michael, and John R. Turner Ettlinger, eds. Inside the White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.
Byrd, Cecile K., and Ward H. Moore, eds. Abraham Lincoln in Print and Photographs: A Picture History from the Lilly Library. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 1997.
Byron Preiss Multimedia Company. Lincoln; The Civil War. CD-ROM. New York: Byron Preiss Multimedia Company for American Heritage, 1997.
Christian, George L. The Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln: Monster or Messiah? Birmingham, Ala.: Society for Biblical and Southern Studies, 1996.
Clarke, Asia Booth. John Wilkes Booth: A Sister's Memoir, edited by Terry Alford. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1996.
Davis, Rodney. Abraham Lincoln: Son and Father. The Edgar S. and Ruth W. Burkhardt Lecture Series. Galesburg, Ill. : Knox College, 1997.
———. "Success...Which Gave Him So Much Satisfaction": Lincoln in the Black Hawk War. Historical Bulletin no. 52. Racine: Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1996.
Duffy, James P. Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1996.
Eicher, David J. The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Evans, Dave, executive producer. Meet President and Mrs. Lincoln. Page  [End Page 67] Videocassette. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Library Cable Network, 1997.
Fehrenbacher, Don E., and Virginia Fehrenbacher, comps. and eds. Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Fleming, Maria. Famous Americans: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. New York: Scholastic Professional Books, 1996.
Foster, B. G. Abraham Lincoln, Inventor. Shepherdstown, W.V.: Charles S. Adams, 1997 (rpt.).
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