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Books about Lincoln's Personal Life

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation. Under Lincoln's Hat: 100 Objects that Tell the Story of his Life and Legacy. Lyons Press, 2016.

Algeo, Matthew. Abe & Fido: Lincoln's Love of Animals and the Touching Story of His Favorite Canine Companion. Chicago Review Press, 2015.

Anderegg, Michael. Lincoln and Shakespeare. University Press of Kansas, 2015.

Bray, Robert. Reading with Lincoln. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.

Burkhimer, Michael. Lincoln's Christianity. Westholme Publishing, 2007.

Burlingame, Michael. The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994

Carson, Thomas L. Lincoln's Ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln's Sense of Humor. Southern Illinois University Press, 2017.

Dirck, Brian R. The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death. Southern Illinois Press, 2019.

Fornieri, Joseph R. Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003.

Freiling, Thomas (ed.). Abraham Lincoln's Daily Treasure: Moments of Faith with America's Favorite President. Fleming H. Revell, 2002.

Guelzo, Allen C. Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas. Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.

Guelzo, Allen C. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999.

Hirsch, David and Van Haften, Dan. Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason. Savas Beatie, 2010.

Jones, Edgar DeWitt. Lincoln and the Preachers. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948.

Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Vol. 18, No. 1, Winter 1997. Comprised of papers about Lincoln's religious thought delivered by Mark Noll, Richard Carwardine and Allen Guelzo. Available at $14 a copy from: Journals Department, University of Illinois Press, 1325 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820-6903.

Lehrman, Lewis E. Lincoln "by littles". The Lehrman Institute, 2013.

Leidner, Gordon. Lincoln on God and Country. White Mane Publishing, 2000.

Morel, Lucas E. Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government. Lexington Books, 2000.

Nicolay, Helen. Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln. Stackpole Books, 2006.

Noll, Mark. America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. Oxford University Press, 2002.

Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R. Lincoln and Medicine. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press 2012.

Shenk, Joshua Wolf. Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness. Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Strozier, Charles B. Lincoln's Quest For Union: Public and Private Meanings. New York: Basic Books, 1982.

Tackach, James. Lincoln and the Natural Environment. Southern Illinois University Press, 2018.

Temple, Wayne C. Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet. Mahomet, Illinois: Mayhaven Publishing, 1995.

Trueblood, Elton. Abraham Lincoln: Theologian of American Anguish. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.

Winger, Stewart. Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002.

Wolf, William J. The Almost Chosen People. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1959.

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