Here are ten books on Lincoln recommended by Dr. Allen Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era, Director of the Civil War Era Studies Program, Gettysburg College.
Angle, Paul M. “Here I Have Lived”: A History of Lincoln’s Springfield, 1821-1875. Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1935
Burlingame, Michael. Abraham Lincoln: A Life. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995
Fehrenbacher, Don E. Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850’s. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1962
Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1959
Lewis, Lloyd. Myths After Lincoln. New York: Blue Ribbon, 1929
Steiner, Mark E. An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007
Steers, Edward. Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2001
Thomas, Benjamin P. Abraham Lincoln. New York: Knopf, 1952
Winkle, Kenneth J. The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln. Dallas, TX: Taylor, 2001
