Contributing Editors for this page include Jim Coe Ranking #37 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “How in God’s name do you let such paragraphs into the Tribune, as the enclosed cut from that paper …

Letter to Charles Ray (June 27, 1858) Read more »

Ranking #58 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “First. We need all the educated military talent we can get.” On This Date HD Daily Report, November 7, 1861 The Lincoln Log, November 7, 1861 Custom …

Letter to Lorenzo Thomas (November 7, 1861) Read more »

Ranking #77 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “For Heaven’s sake, for your friends sake, for the sake of the recollection of all the hard battles we have heretofore fought shoulder, to shoulder, do not …

Letter to Andrew McCormick (January 1, 1841) Read more »

Ranking #95 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “I have now been beaten one day over a week; and I am very happy to find myself quite convalescent.” On This Date HD Daily Report, February …

Letter to Jesse Norton (February 16, 1855) Read more »

Ranking #97 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “When you say you are organizing every election district, do you mean to include the idea that you are ‘canvassing’ – ‘counting noses?’” On This Date HD …

Letter to Alexander McClure (August 30, 1860) Read more »

Contributing Editors for this page include Jim Coe Ranking #108 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents   Annotated Transcript We must have though a man who recognizes the slavery issue as being the living issue of the …

Letter to Thomas Corwin (October 9, 1859) Read more »

Ranking #135 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “I had supposed that it was not proper for me, residing in Illinois, to occupy the time of the Convention in making a speech.  I will, however, …

Speech at River and Harbor Convention (July 6, 1847) Read more »

Contributing Editors for this page include Chris Jaax Ranking #137 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Other things being equal, I would much prefer a temperate man, to an intemperate one; still I do not …

Letter to Richard Oglesby (September 8, 1854) Read more »