Francis Lieber (House Divided)

Sources
You can find collections of Lieber’s papers at the Henry E. Huntington Library, Johns Hopkins University, the University of South Carolina, and at the Library of Congress. Other important primary sources include Lieber’s Miscellaneous Writings: Reminiscences, Addresses, and Essays (1881) and Like a Sponge Thrown into Water: Francis Lieber’s European Travel Journal of 1844-1845 (2002). Lieber also wrote several books and articles, such as A Popular Essay on Subjects of Penal Law (1838) and Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field (1863). Important secondary sources include Frank Freidel’s Francis Lieber, Nineteenth-Century Liberal (1948), Bernard Edward Brown’s American Conservatives: The Political thought of Francis Lieber and John W. Burgess (1951), Elihu Root’s, “Francis Lieber and General Orders no. 100,” American Journal of International Law 7 (1913): 453-469, Kent Blaser’s “Lieber’s Code and the Law of War,” Civil War History 30 (1984): 88-89, Michael O’Brien’s “‘A Sort of Cosmopolitan Dog’: Francis Lieber in the South,” Southern Review 25 (1989): 308-322, Burrus M. Carnahan’s, “Lincoln, Lieber and the Laws of War: The Origins and Limits of the Principle of Military Necessity,” American Journal of International Law 92 (1998): 213-231, and Hartmut Keil’s “Francis Lieber’s Attitudes on Race, Slavery, and Abolition,” Journal of American Ethnic History 28 (2008): 13-33.

Places to Visit
Lieber College is located on the University of South Carolina’s campus in Columbia. The building was constructed in 1837 and Lieber lived in the house until 1856. Today it houses the University’s Undergraduate Admissions Office.

Images
While an image of Lieber is available on his House Divided profile, the New York Public Library Digital Gallery also has several other photographs.