Reviews
This list includes reviews of books, Web sites, movies, and exhibitions with the name “Lincoln” in their titles that were published in the JAH or Mississippi Valley Historical Review from June 1914 through June 2009.
2001—present
- The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln (Basic, 2008) by Kate Clifford Larson;
reviewed by Judith Ann Giesberg
June 2009, Vol. 96, No. 1, Journal of American History - Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point (Stackpole, 2008) by Lewis E. Lehrman;
reviewed by Daniel W. Stowell
June 2009, Vol. 96, No. 1, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Darkest Year: The War in 1862 (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) by William Marvel;
reviewed by John Cimprich
June 2009, Vol. 96, No. 1, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Lost Legacy: The Republican Party and the African American Vote, 1928–1952 (University Press of Florida, 2008) by Simon Topping;
reviewed by Jennifer E. Brooks
June 2009, Vol. 96, No. 1, Journal of American History - The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (University of Illinois Press, 2008), edited by Rodney O. Davis and Douglas L. Wilson;
reviewed by Michael P. Johnson
June 2009, Vol. 96, No. 1, Journal of American History - Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race (Harvard University Press, 2008) by George M. Fredrickson;
reviewed by Randall M. Miller
March 2009, Vol. 95, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln and the Court (Harvard University Press, 2008) by Brian McGinty;
reviewed by Richard F. Hamm
March 2009, Vol. 95, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Christianity (Westholme, 2007) by Michael Burkhimer;
reviewed by Mitchell Snay
March 2009, Vol. 95, No. 4, Journal of American History - Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin (Prometheus, 2008) by David R. Contosta;
reviewed by Bruce Kuklick
March 2009, Vol. 95, No. 4, Journal of American History - Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union (Walker, 2008) by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick;
reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams
December 2008, Vol. 95, No. 3, Journal of American History - President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman (Knopf, 2008) by William Lee Miller;
reviewed by Frederick J. Blue
December 2008, Vol. 95, No. 3, Journal of American History - Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War (University Press of Kentucky, 2007) by Burrus M. Carnahan;
reviewed by Matthew Pinsker
September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History - Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America—Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln (Georgetown University Press, 2007) by Matthew S. Holland;
reviewed by David Wagner
September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard;
reviewed by Kirt H. Wilson
September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession (University of North Carolina Press, 2008) by Russell McClintock;
reviewed by Susan-Mary Grant
September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Legacy: Ethics and Politics (University of Illinois Press, 2008), edited by Phillip Shaw Paludan;
reviewed by William C. Harris
September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History - The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln’s Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America (Smithsonian Books, 2008) by Roy Morris Jr.; and
Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America (Simon & Schuster, 2008) by Allen C. Guelzo;
joint review by Wayne Temple
September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History - The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (Norton, 2007) by James Oakes;
reviewed by Stanley Harrold
September 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2, Journal of American History - The Age of Lincoln (Hill and Wang, 2007) by Orville Vernon Burton;
reviewed by Edward J. Blum
March 2008, Vol. 94, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum (Fordham University Press, 2007), edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel;
reviewed by Brian R. Dirck
March 2008, Vol. 94, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln the Lawyer (University of Illinois Press, 2007) by Brian Dirck;
reviewed by William D. Pederson
March 2008, Vol. 94, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency (University Press of Kansas, 2007) by William C. Harris;
reviewed by Stephen Hansen
March 2008, Vol. 94, No. 4, Journal of American History - The Madness of Mary Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007) by Jason Emerson;
reviewed by Gerald N. Grob
March 2008, Vol. 94, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race (Northern Illinois University Press, 2007), edited by Brian R. Dirck;
reviewed by Michael T. Smith
December 2007, Vol. 94, No. 3, Journal of American History - Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2006) by Robert Tracy McKenzie;
reviewed by Jon L. Wakelyn
September 2007, Vol. 94, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri’s Civil War Governor (Louisiana State University Press, 2006) by Dennis K. Boman;
reviewed by Marshall DeRosa
June 2007, Vol. 94, No. 1, Journal of American History - Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery (Oxford University Press, 2006) by Richard Striner;
reviewed by Michael P. Johnson
March 2007, Vol. 93, No. 4, Journal of American History - The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln (Michigan State University Press, 2005) by Michael William Pfau;
reviewed by Stephen E. Maizlish
December 2006, Vol. 93, No. 3, Journal of American History - “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War” (National Constitution Center, Philadelphia; temporary and traveling exhibition, opened 2006);
exhibition reviewed by Randall M. Miller
December 2006, Vol. 93, No. 3, Journal of American History - The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (Norton, 2005) by Sean Wilentz;
reviewed by Michael F. Holt
September 2006, Vol. 93, No. 2, Journal of American History
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
(Simon & Schuster, 2005) by Doris Kearns Goodwin;
reviewed by Frederick J. Blue
September 2006, Vol. 93, No. 2, Journal of American History
- “First Among Equals”: Abraham Lincoln’s Reputation during His Administration (Fordham University Press, 2005) by Hans L. Trefousse;
reviewed by Thomas R. Turner
June 2006, Vol. 93, No. 1, Journal of American History - The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln (Free Press, 2005) by C. A. Tripp and edited by Lewis Gannett;
reviewed by Matthew Pinsker
March 2006, Vol. 92, No. 4, Journal of American History - Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck (Belknap, 2004) by John F. Marszalek;
reviewed by Paul D. Casdorph
December 2005, Vol. 92, No. 3, Journal of American History
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield (permanent exhibition, opened 2005);
exhibition reviewed by John R. Decker
December 2005, Vol. 92, No. 3, Journal of American History - Young Lincoln: The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1816–1830 (WFYI and the Indiana Historical Society, 2005), produced by Todd Gould;
movie reviewed by Dan Monroe
December 2005, Vol. 92, No. 3, Journal of American History - Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington (Ballantine, 2004) by Daniel Mark Epstein;
reviewed by Jay Grossman
June 2005, Vol. 92, No. 1, Journal of American History
- Lincoln (Pearson, 2003) by Richard J. Carwardine;
reviewed by Rodney O. Davis
March 2005, vol. 91, No. 4, Journal of American History
- Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (Simon & Schuster, 2004) by Harold Holzer;
reviewed by Richard J. Carwardine
March 2005, Vol. 91, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (Simon & Schuster, 2004) by Allen C. Guelzo;
reviewed by Kirt H. Wilson
March 2005, Vol. 91, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Last Months (Belknap, 2004), by William C. Harris; and
Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home (Oxford University Press, 2003), by Matthew Pinsker;
joint review by Herman Belz
March 2005, Vol. 91, No. 4, Journal of American History - “We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (Simon & Schuster, 2003) by David Herbert Donald;
reviewed by Allen C. Guelzo
December 2004, Vol. 91, No. 3, Journal of American History - Abraham Lincoln’s Political Faith (Northern Illinois University Press, 2003) by Joseph R. Fornieri;
reviewed by Ronald C. White
September 2004, Vol. 91, No. 2, Journal of American History - America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2002) by Mark A. Noll;
reviewed by John Corrigan
September 2004, Vol. 91, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Constitution (University of Chicago Press, 2003) by Daniel Farber;
reviewed by Stewart Winger
September 2004, Vol. 91, No. 2, Journal of American History - The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln (Taylor, 2001) by Kenneth J. Winkle;
reviewed by Stephen L. Hansen
September 2004, Vol. 91, No. 2, Journal of American History - The Lincoln Memorial & American Life (Princeton University Press, 2002) by Christopher A. Thomas;
reviewed by Thomas R. Turner
March 2004, Vol. 90, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln, Religion, and Romantic Cultural Politics (Northern Illinois University Press, 2003) by Stewart Winger;
reviewed by David B. Chesebrough
March 2004, Vol. 90, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Quest for Equality: The Road to Gettysburg (Northern Illinois University Press, 2002) by Carl F. Wieck;
reviewed by Kent Gramm
March 2004, Vol. 90, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography (Knopf, 2002) by William Lee Miller;
reviewed by Kenneth J. Winkle
September 2003, Vol. 90, No. 2, Journal of American History
- Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, created and maintained by the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, Northern Illinois University;
web site reviewed by Anne Sarah Rubin
March 2003, Vol. 89, No. 4, Journal of American History. - Lincoln’s Rail-Splitter: Governor Richard J. Oglesby (University of Illinois Press, 2001) by Mark A. Plummer;
reviewed by Stephen L. Hansen
December 2002, Vol. 89, No. 3, Journal of American History - “Heaven Will Frown on Such a Cause as This”: Six Democrats Who Opposed Lincoln’s War (University Press of America, 2001) by Joanna D. Cowden;
reviewed by Thomas F. Curran
September 2002, Vol. 89, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln & Davis: Imagining America, 1809–1865 (University Press of Kansas, 2001) by Brian R. Dirck;
reviewed by David Herbert Donald
September 2002, Vol. 89, No. 2, Journal of American History - The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon (Oxford University Press, 2001) edited by Gabor Boritt;
reviewed by Wallace Hettle
September 2002, Vol. 89, No. 2, Journal of American History - A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), by Harry V. Jaffa;
reviewed by David F. Ericson
June 2002, Vol. 89, No. 1, Journal of American History - Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory (University of Chicago Press, 2000), by Barry Schwartz;
reviewed by Jim Cullen
December 2001, Vol. 88, No. 3, Journal of American History - On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History (Yale University Press, 2000), by John Patrick Diggins;
reviewed by Daniel Walker Howe
December 2001, Vol. 88, No. 3, Journal of American History - Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (David Grubin Productions, 2001), produced by David Grubin;
movie reviewed by Scott A. Sandage
December 2001, Vol. 88, No. 3, Journal of American History
- Wet with Blood: The Investigation of Mary Todd Lincoln’s Cloak, created and maintained by the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University;
web site reviewed by William G. Thomas III
December 2001, Vol. 88, No. 3, Journal of American History - Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), by George Anastaplo;
reviewed by Michael Vorenberg
September 2001, Vol. 88, No. 2, Journal of American History - Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Eerdmans, 1999), by Allen C. Guelzo;
reviewed by Robert J. Cook
September 2001, Vol. 88, No. 2, Journal of American History - The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: The Complete Documentary Edition (University of Illinois Press, 2000; 3 Windows DVDs), edited by Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis;
reviewed by Phillip Shaw Paludan
September 2001, Vol. 88, No. 2, Journal of American History - Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War (University Press of Kentucky, 2000), by Howard Jones;
reviewed by Matthew Pinsker
March 2001, Vol. 87, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln of Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky, 2000), by Lowell H. Harrison;
reviewed by Stephen Aron
March 2001, Vol. 87, No. 4, Journal of American History
1991—2000
- Who Was Abraham Lincoln? (BJW, Inc. in association with New River Media, 1996), produced by Robert Bailey; directed by Graham Knight;
movie reviewed by Daniel Walker Howe
December 2000, vol. 87, No. 3, Journal of American History - When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln: Southern Reaction to the Assassination (Mercer University Press, 1997), by Carolyn L. Harrell;
reviewed by William Hanchett
March 2000, Vol. 86, No. 4, Journal of American History - Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand (University of South Carolina Press, 1998), edited by James M. McPherson and William J. Cooper Jr.;
Virginia’s Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861–1865 (Oxford University Press, 1998), by William Blair;
Lincoln’s Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation (Free Press, 1999), by William C. Davis; and
The Battle of Glorieta: Union Victory in the West (Texas A&M University Press, 1998), by Don E. Alberts;
joint review by J. Matthew Gallman
March 2000, Vol. 86, No. 4, Journal of American History - Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era (Fordham University Press, 1998), by Herman Belz;
reviewed by Roberta Sue Alexander
June 1999, Vol. 86, No. 1, Journal of American History - Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861–1862 (Kent State University Press, 1998), by Joseph L. Harsh; and
Over Lincoln’s Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War (University Press of Kansas, 1998), by Bruce Tap;
joint review by Daniel E. Sutherland
June 1999, Vol. 86, No. 1, Journal of American History
- With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union (University Press of Kentucky, 1997), by William C. Harris;
reviewed by David Herbert Donald
June 1998, Vol. 85, No. 1, Journal of American History
- “Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment” (Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne; permanent exhibition, 1995–2008);
exhibition reviewed by William A. Firstenberger
June 1998, Vol. 85, No. 1, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Abolitionist General: The Biography of David Hunter (University of South Carolina Press, 1997), by Edward A. Miller Jr.;
reviewed by Edwin S. Redkey December 1997, Vol. 84, No. 3, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut (Wiley, 1997), by James P. Duffy; and
Admiral David Dixon Porter: The Civil War Years (Naval Institute Press, 1996), by Chester G. Hearn;
reviewed by Frank Lawrence Owsley Jr.
December 1997, Vol. 84, No. 3, Journal of American History - The Republicans: From Lincoln to Bush (University of Missouri Press, 1996), by Robert Allen Rutland;
reviewed by Craig Lloyd
December 1997, Vol. 84, No. 3, Journal of American History - Lincoln (Simon & Schuster, 1995), by David Herbert Donald; and
The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 1994), by Michael Burlingame;
joint review by William Hanchett
June 1996, Vol. 83, No. 1, Journal of American History - The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln’s Re-Election and the End of Slavery (Stackpole, 1994), by David E. Long;
reviewed by Phillip Shaw Paludan
December 1995, Vol. 82, No. 3, Journal of American History
- The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (University Press of Kansas, 1994), by Phillip Shaw Paludan;
reviewed by Brooks D. Simpson
June 1995, Vol. 82, No. 1, Journal of American History
- The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America (Huntington Library, 1993), by John H. Rhodehamel and Thomas F. Schwartz;
“The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America” (traveling exhibition, opened 1993); and
The Making of “The Last Best Hope of Earth” (Fido Productions, 1993), produced by Louise Taper and Barry Taper;
book, exhibition, and movie reviewed by Rita Roberts
June 1995, Vol. 82, No. 1, Journal of American History - “No Sorrow like Our Sorrow”: Northern Protestant Ministers and the Assassination of Lincoln (Kent State University Press, 1994), by David B. Chesebrough;
reviewed by Mark Y. Hanley
March 1995, Vol. 81, No. 4, Journal of American History - The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America (Harvard University Press, 1993), by Mark E. Neely Jr.;
reviewed by George B. Forgie
December 1994, Vol. 81, No. 3, Journal of American History - Lincoln in American Memory (Oxford University Press, 1994), by Merrill D. Peterson;
reviewed by David W. Blight
December 1994, Vol. 81, No. 3, Journal of American History - The Shadows Rise: Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend (University of Illinois Press, 1993), by John Evangelist Walsh;
reviewed by Charles Strozier
December 1994, Vol. 81, No. 3, Journal of American History - The Lincoln Persuasion: Remaking American Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 1993), by J. David Greenstone;
reviewed by Mark E. Neely Jr.
September 1994, Vol. 81, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy (Northeastern University Press, 1992), by Richard Nelson Current;
reviewed by Daniel W. Crofts
December 1993, Vol. 80, No. 3, Journal of American History - Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster, 1992), by Garry Wills;
reviewed by Robert A. Ferguson
September 1993, Vol. 80, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln, the South, and Slavery: The Political Dimension (Louisiana State University Press, 1991), by Robert W. Johannsen;
reviewed by Gabor Boritt
December 1992, Vol. 79, No. 3, Journal of American History - William Henry Seward: Lincoln’s Right Hand (HarperCollins, 1991), by John M. Taylor;
reviewed by Adrian Cook
September 1992, Vol. 79, No. 2, Journal of American History - Assassin on Stage: Brutus, Hamlet, and the Death of Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 1991), by Albert Furtwangler;
reviewed by David Grimsted
June 1992, Vol. 79, No. 1, Journal of American History - Lincoln and the War Within (Lumiere Productions, 1992), produced by Calvin Skaggs and Robert Brent Toplin;
movie reviewed by James A. Rawley
December 1992, Vol. 79, No. 3, Journal of American History - Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate (University of Chicago Press, 1990), by David Zarefsky;
reviewed by Wayne C. Temple
March 1992, Vol. 78, No. 4, Journal of American History - Building the Myth: Selected Speeches Memorializing Abraham Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 1990), edited by Waldo W. Braden; and
Lincoln on Democracy (HarperCollins, 1990), edited by Mario M. Cuomo and Harold Holzer;
joint review by D. Ray Heisey
December 1991, Vol. 78, No. 3, Journal of American History - The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (Oxford University Press, 1990), by Mark E. Neely Jr.;
reviewed by Adrian Cook
December 1991, Vol. 78, No. 3, Journal of American History - “A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln” (Chicago Historical Society; permanent
exhibition, 1990–2005); A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln (exhibition guide, Chicago Historical Society and Norton, 1990); exhibition and guide reviewed by Virginia Stewart
December 1991, Vol. 78, No. 3, Journal of American History - Abandoned by Lincoln: A Military Biography of General John Pope (University of Illinois Press, 1990), by Wallace J. Schutz and Walter N. Trenerry;
reviewed by John Y. Simon
June 1991, Vol. 78, No. 1, Journal of American History - The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln: Second Supplement, 1848–1865 (Rutgers University Press, 1990), edited by Roy P. Basler and Christian O. Basler;
reviewed by Gabor S. Boritt
June 1991, Vol. 78, No. 1, Journal of American History - Crown of Thorns: Political Martyrdom in America from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King Jr. (New York University Press, 1990), by Eyal J. Naveh;
reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield
June 1991, Vol. 78, No. 1, Journal of American History
1981—1990
- Abraham Lincoln: Public Speaker (Louisiana State University Press, 1988), by Waldo W. Braden;
reviewed by George B. Forgie
March 1990, Vol. 76, No. 4, Journal of American History - The Historian’s Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 1988), by Gabor S. Boritt;
reviewed by Patrick W. Riddleberger
March 1990, Vol. 76, No. 4, Journal of American History - Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (Norton, 1987), by Jean H. Baker;
reviewed by Roger D. Bridges
December 1989, Vol. 75, No. 3, Journal of American History - Gore Vidal’s Lincoln (Finnegan-Pinchuk and Chris Rose Productions and nbc, 1988), produced by Sheldon Pinchuk, Bill Finnegan, and Pat Finnegan;
movie reviewed by Richard N. Current
December 1989, Vol. 75, No. 3, Journal of American History - Lincoln in Text and Context: Collected Essays (Stanford University Press, 1987), by Don E. Fehrenbacher;
reviewed by Roger D. Bridges
June 1988, Vol. 75, No. 1, Journal of American History - Abraham Lincoln and the American Political Tradition (University of Massachusetts Press, 1986), edited by
John L. Thomas;
reviewed by Thomas F. Schwartz
June 1987, Vol. 74, No. 1, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Lee: The Life of Samuel Phillips Lee, United States Navy, 1812–1897 (University Press of Kansas,
1986), by Dudley Taylor Cornish and Virginia Jeans Laas;
reviewed by Rowena Reed
June 1987, Vol. 74, No. 1, Journal of American History - 1986 no entries
- Abraham Lincoln: The Man behind the Myths (Harper and Row, 1984), by Stephen B. Oates;
reviewed by Dwight G. Anderson
March 1985, Vol. 71, No. 4, Journal of American History - The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies (University of Illinois Press, 1983), by William Hanchett;
reviewed by Stephen L. Hansen
September 1984, Vol. 71, No. 2, Journal of American History
- Lincoln’s Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings (Basic Books, 1982), by Charles B. Strozier;
reviewed by Robert H. Abug
September 1983, Vol. 70, No. 2, Journal of American History
- The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia (McGraw-Hill, 1982), by Mark E. Neely Jr.;
reviewed by James M. McPherson
March 1983, Vol. 69, No. 4, Journal of American History
- Abraham Lincoln: The Quest for Immortality (Knopf, 1982), by Dwight G. Anderson;
reviewed by Mark E. Neely Jr.
March 1983, Vol. 69, No. 4, Journal of American History
- Beware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Louisiana State University Press, 1982), by Thomas Reed Turner;
reviewed by Thomas J. Pressly
March 1983, Vol. 69, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership (University of South Carolina Press, 1981), by LaWanda Cox;
reviewed by James M. McPherson
December 1982, Vol. 69, No. 3, Journal of American History - Abraham Lincoln and the Union (Atlantic/Little Brown, 1980), by Oscar Handlin and Lillian Handlin;
reviewed by Richard N. Current
June 1981, Vol. 67, No. 1, Journal of American History
1971—1980
- The Public and the Private Lincoln: Contemporary Perspectives (Southern Illinois University Press, 1979), edited by Cullom Davis, Charles B. Strozier, Rebecca Monroe Veach, and Geoffrey C. Ward;
reviewed by James A. Rawley
September 1980, Vol. 66, No. 2, Journal of American History - Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: The Louisiana Experiment (Princeton University Press, 1978), by Peyton McCray;
reviewed by Herman Belz
December 1979, Vol. 66, No. 3, Journal of American History - Patricide in the House Divided: A Psychological Interpretation of Lincoln and His Age (Norton, 1979), by George B. Forgie;
reviewed by Edwin G. Burrows
December 1979, Vol. 66, No. 3, Journal of American History - Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream (Memphis State University Press, 1978), by G. S. Boritt;
reviewed by Peter F. Walker
September 1979, Vol. 66, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics (University of Missouri Press, 1978), by David A. Nichols;
reviewed by Stephen B. Oates
June 1979, Vol. 66, No. 1, Journal of American History - The Three Kentucky Presidents: Lincoln, Taylor, Davis (University Press of Kentucky, 1978), by Holman Hamilton;
reviewed by Robert W. Johannsen
June 1979, Vol. 66, No. 1, Journal of American History - The Lincoln Conspiracy (Schick Sunn, 1977), by David Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier Jr.;
reviewed by David Lindsey
December 1978, Vol. 65, No. 3, Journal of American History
- Abraham Lincoln and the American Political Religion (State University of New York Press, 1976), by Glen E. Thurow;
reviewed by G. S. Boritt
September 1978, Vol. 65, No. 2, Journal of American History - With Malice toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Harper & Row, 1977), by Stephen B. Oates;
reviewed by James A. Rawley
March 1978, Vol. 64, No. 4, Journal of American History
- 1977 no entries
- Lincoln and the War Democrats: The Grand Erosion of Conservative Tradition (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1975), by Christopher Dell;
reviewed by Robert W. Johannsen
December 1976, Vol. 63, No. 3, Journal of American History - A True History of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and of the Conspiracy of 1865 (Knopf, 1975), by Louis J. Weichmann and Floyd E. Risvold;
reviewed by William Hanchett
June 1976, Vol. 63, No. 1, Journal of American History - Roosevelt’s Image Brokers: Poets, Playwrights, and the Use of the Lincoln Symbol (Kennikat, 1974), by Alfred Haworth Jones;
reviewed by Robert Sklar
September 1975, Vol. 62, No. 2, Journal of American History - The American Conscience: The Drama of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Horizon, 1973), by Saul Sigelschiffer;
reviewed by William D. Mallam
December 1974, Vol. 61, No. 3, Journal of American History - Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy (Oxford University Press, 1973), by John Niven;
reviewed by Richard N. Current
September 1974, Vol. 61, No. 2, Journal of American History - Milligan’s Fight against Lincoln (Exposition, 1973), by Darwin Kelley;
reviewed by Charles G. Summersell
September 1974, Vol. 61, No. 2, Journal of American History - Democratic Opposition to the Lincoln Administration in Indiana (Indiana Historical Bureau, 1973), by G. R. Tredway;
reviewed by Frank L. Klement
June 1974, Vol. 61, No. 1, Journal of American History - Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters (Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), by Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner;
reviewed by Frank L. Byrne
September 1973, Vol. 60, No. 2, Journal of American History - The Image of Lincoln in the South (Addison-Wesley, 1971), by Michael Davis;
reviewed by Hans L. Treffousse
June 1972, Vol. 59, No. 1, Journal of American History - Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery (University of Nevada Press, 1970), by John S. Wright;
reviewed by William Hanchett
June 1971, Vol. 58, No. 1, Journal of American History
1961—1970
- Hannibal Hamlin of Maine: Lincoln’s First Vice-President (Syracuse University Press, 1969), by H. Draper Hunt;
reviewed by Edward Pessen
June 1970, Vol. 55, No. 1, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Lost Speech. The Pivot of His Career (Hawthorn Books, 1967), by Elwell Crissey;
reviewed by William Hanchett
March 1970, Vol. 56, No. 4, Journal of American History - Robert Todd Lincoln: A Man in His Own Right (University of Oklahoma Press, 1969), by John S. Goff;
reviewed by Ari Hoogenboom
December 1969, Vol. 56, No. 3, Journal of American History
- The Radical Republicans: Lincoln’s Vanguard for Racial Justice (Alfred A. Knopf, 1969), by Hans L. Trefousse;
reviewed by Emma Lou Thornbrough
September 1969, Vol. 56, No. 2, Journal of American History
- A Portrait of Abraham Lincoln in Letters by His Oldest Son (Chicago Historical Society, 1968), by Paul M. Angle and Richard G. Case;
reviewed by Edward R. Baron
June 1969, Vol. 56, No. 1, Journal of American History - 1968 no entries
- Lincoln vs. Douglas: The Great Debates Campaign (Public Affairs Press, 1967), by Richard Allen Heckman;
reviewed by Holman Hamilton
December 1967, Vol. 54, No. 3, Journal of American History - A Portion of that Field: The Centennial of the Burial of Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 1967), by Gwendolyn Brooks, Otto Kerner, Allan Nevins, Paul M. Angle, Mark Van Doren, Paul H. Douglas, Bruce Catton, and Adlai E. Stevenson;
reviewed by Frederick G. Davies
December 1967, Vol. 54, No. 3, Journal of American History - Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s Secretary of War: A Political Biography (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966), by Erwin Stanley Bradley;
reviewed by Don F. Fehrenbacher
December 1967, Vol. 54, No. 3, Journal of American History - Mr. Lincoln’s Washington: Selections from the Writings of Noah Brooks, Civil War Correspondent (A. S. Barnes, 1967), by P. J. Staudenraus;
reviewed by Wayne C. Temple
September 1967, Vol. 54, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War (Caxton Printers, 1966), by Kenneth A. Bernard;
reviewed by Henry A. Kmen
June 1967, Vol. 54, No. 1, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Preparation for Greatness: The Illinois Legislative Years (University of Oklahoma Press, 1965), by Paul Simon;
reviewed by Allen Heckman
September 1966, Vol. 53, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Attorney General: Edward Bates of Missouri (University of Missouri Press, 1965), by Marvin R. Cain;
reviewed by Charles Jellison
March 1966, Vol. 52, No. 4, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Scapegoat General: A Life of Benjamin F. Butler, 1818–1893 (Houghton Mifflin, 1965), by Richard S. West Jr.;
reviewed by William D. Mallam
September 1965, Vol. 52, No. 2, Journal of American History - Lincoln’s Gadfly, Adam Gurowski (University of Oklahoma Press, 1964), by LeRoy H. Fischer;
reviewed by T. Harry Williams
March 1965, Vol. 51, No. 4, Journal of American History - 1964 no entries
- Halleck: Lincoln’s Chief of Staff (Louisiana State University Press, 1962), by Stephen E. Ambrose;
reviewed by Warren W. Hassler Jr.
March 1963, Vol. 49, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review. - Lincoln and the Negro (Oxford University Press, 1962), by Benjamin Quarles;
reviewed by Leslie H. Fishel Jr.
December 1962, Vol. 49, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850’s (Stanford University Press, 1962), by Don E. Fehrenbacher;
reviewed by Roy F. Nichols
December 1962, Vol. 49, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Lincoln as a Lawyer (University of Illinois Press, 1961), by John P. Frank;
reviewed by Maurice G. Baxter
June 1962, Vol. 49, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln’s Secretary of War (Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), by Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman;
reviewed by T. Harry Williams
June 1962, Vol. 49, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln’s Manager: David Davis (Harvard University Press, 1960), by Willard L. King;
reviewed by Winfred A. Harbison
September 1961, Vol. 48, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Complete One Volume History of His Life and Times (Prentice-Hall, 1960), by Reinhard H. Luthin;
reviewed by Charles R. Wilson
September 1961, Vol. 48, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Three against Lincoln: Murat Halstead Reports the Caucuses of 1860 (Louisiana State University Press, 1960), by William B. Hesseltine;
reviewed by Robert W. Johannsen
March 1961, Vol. 47, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
1951–1960
- John Palmer Usher: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Interior (University of Kansas Press, 1960), by Elmo R. Richardson and Alan W. Farley;
reviewed by Wallace D. Farnham
December 1960, Vol. 47, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln’s Plan of Reconstruction. Confederate Centennial Studies, Number 13 (Confederate Publishing Company, 1960), by William B. Hesseltine;
reviewed by Jack B. Scroggs
December 1960, Vol. 47, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln Goes to New York (Coward-McCann, 1960), by Andrew A. Freeman;
no reviewer listed
September 1960, Vol. 47, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - A Catalog of the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana in the Library of Congress (Library of Congress, 1960);
no reviewer or author listed
September 1960, Vol. 47, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln Images: Augustana College Centennial Essays (Augustana College Library, 1960), by O. Fritiof Ander;
no reviewer listed
September 1960, Vol. 47, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Almost Chosen People: A Study of the Religion of Abraham Lincoln (Doubleday, 1959), by William J. Wolf; and Lincoln’s Youth: Indiana Years, Seven to Twenty-one, 1816–1830 (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1959), by Louis A. Warren;
reviewed by Richard N. Current
June 1960, Vol. 47, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Doubleday, 1959), by Harry V. Jaffa; and
In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Ohio State University Press, for the Ohio Historical Society, 1959), by Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen;
joint reviewed by Maurice G. Baxter
March 1960, Vol. 46, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War (Macmillan, 1959), by Kenneth P. Williams;
reviewed by D. Alexander Brown
March 1960, Vol. 46, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Enduring Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 1959), edited by Norman A. Graebner;
no reviewer listed
September 1959, Vol. 46, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Altgeld’s America: The Lincoln Ideal versus Changing Realities (Funk & Wagnalls, 1958), by Ray Ginger;
reviewed by Donald L. McMurry
March 1959, Vol. 45, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Lincoln Nobody Knows (McGraw-Hill, 1958), by Richard N. Current;
reviewed by David M. Potter
March 1959, Vol. 45, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lee’s Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C. S. A., to Jefferson Davis and the WarDepartment of the Confederate States of America, 1862–65 (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1957), edited by DouglasSouthall Freeman, new edition by Grady McWhiney;
Private Elisha Stockwell Jr., Sees the CivilWar (University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), edited by Byron R. Abernethy;
Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer (McCowat-Mercer Press, 1958), by G. Moxley Sorrel and edited by Bell Irvin Wiley;
The Confederate Reader (Longmans, Green and Company, 1957), edited by Richard B. Harwell;
A. P. Hill: Lee’s Forgotten General (Garrett and Massie, 1957), by William Woods Hassler;
Gentle Tiger: TheGallant Life of Roberdeau Wheat (Louisiana State University Press, 1957), by Charles L. Dufour;
TheBattle of Gettysburg (Houghton Mifflin, 1958), by Frank A. Haskell and edited by Bruce Catton;
Dramaon the Rappahannock: The Fredericksburg Campaign (Military Service Publishing, 1957), by Edward J.Stackpole;
The Civil War, A Soldier’s View: A Collection of Civil War Writings (University of ChicagoPress, 1958), by G. F. R. Henderson and edited by Jay Luvaas;
Doctors in Gray: The Confederate MedicalService (Louisiana State University Press, 1958), by H. H. Cunningham;
ConfederateEngineers (Confederate Publishing, 1957), by James L. Nichols;
An End to Valor: The Last Days of theCivil War (Houghton Mifflin, 1958), by Philip Van Doren Stern;
Eight Hours before Richmond (HenryHolt, 1957), by Virgil Carrington Jones; and
Mr. Lincoln’s Navy (Longmans, Green and Company,1957), by Richard S. West Jr.;
joint review by Frank E. Vandiver
December 1958, Vol. 45, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Created Equal? The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 (University of Chicago Press, 1958), edited by Paul M. Angle;
reviewed by Robert W. Johannsen
September 1958, Vol. 45, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Congressman Abraham Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 1957), by Donald W. Riddle;
reviewed by Charles H. Coleman
March 1958, Vol. 44, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln’s Supreme Court (University of Illinois Press, 1956), by David M. Silver;
reviewed by Winfred A. Harbison
December 1957, Vol. 44, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Orville H. Browning: Lincoln’s Friend and Critic (Indiana University Press, 1957), by Maurice G. Baxter;
reviewed by William F. Zornow
December 1957, Vol. 44, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Courtship of Mr. Lincoln (Little, Brown and Company, 1957), by Ruth Painter Randall;
reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Massey
June 1957, Vol. 44, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War. Volume IV, Iuka to Vicksburg (Macmillan, 1956), by Kenneth P. Williams;
reviewed by D. A. Brown
June 1957, Vol. 44, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and the Tools of War (Bobbs-Merrill, 1956), by Robert V. Bruce;
reviewed by Harold Jaynes Bingham
December 1956, Vol. 43, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era (Alfred A. Knopf, 1956), by David Donald;
reviewed by William B. Hesseltine
December 1956, Vol. 43, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln’s Fifth Wheel: The Political History of the United States Sanitary Commission (Longmans, Green and Company, 1956), by William Quentin Maxwell;
reviewed by Palmer H. Boeger
September 1956, Vol. 43, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1955), by J. G. Randall and Richard N. Current;
reviewed by Avery Craven
June 1956, Vol. 43, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Lincoln’s Sons (Little, Brown and Company, 1955), by Ruth Painter Randall;
reviewed by Charles H. Coleman
June 1956, Vol. 43, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Printer and the Prince: A Study of the Influence of Horace Greeley upon Abraham Lincoln as Candidate and President (Exposition Press, 1955), by James H. Trietsch;
reviewed by Winfred A. Harbison
June 1956, Vol. 43, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky (University of Kentucky Press, 1955), by William H. Townsend;
reviewed by Chase C. Mooney
March 1956, Vol. 42, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Inside Lincoln’s Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase (Longmans, Green and Company, 1954), by David Donald;
reviewed by Winfred A. Harbison
June 1955, Vol. 42, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Lincoln and the Party Divided (University of Oklahoma Press, 1954), by William Frank Zornow;
reviewed by David M. Potter
June 1955, Vol. 42, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Pardon and Amnesty under Lincoln and Johnson; The Restoration of the Confederates to Their Rights and Privileges, 1861–1898 (University of North Carolina Press, 1953), by Jonathan Truman Dorris;
reviewed by Frank W. Klingberg
December 1954, Vol. 41, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Case of Mrs. Surratt: Her Controversial Trial and Execution for Conspiracy in the Lincoln Assassination (University of Oklahoma Press, 1954), by Guy W. Moore;
reviewed by Frank Maloy Anderson
September 1954, Vol. 41, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and Greeley (University of Illinois Press, 1953), by Harlan Hoyt Horner;
reviewed by Jeter A. Isely
June 1954, Vol. 41, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage (Little, Brown and Company, 1953), by Ruth Painter Randall;
reviewed by Avery Craven
December 1953, Vol. 40, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln (Macmillan, 1952), by Herbert Agar;
reviewed by Harry E. Pratt
September 1953, Vol. 40, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Nancy Hanks Lincoln: A Frontier Portrait (Bookman, 1952), by Harold E. Briggs and Ernestine B. Briggs;
reviewed by Charles H. Coleman
September 1953, Vol. 40, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and the Russians (World Publishing, 1952), by Albert A. Woldman;
reviewed by Jay Monaghan
June 1953, Vol. 40, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln Finds a General; A Military Study of the Civil War. Vol. III, Grant’s First Year in the West (Macmillan, 1952), by Kenneth P. William;
reviewed by Donald A. MacDougall
June 1953, Vol. 40, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln; A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), by Benjamin P. Thomas;
reviewed by Donald W. Riddle
December 1952, Vol. 39, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and His Generals (Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), by T. Harry Williams;
reviewed by Avery Craven
September 1952, Vol. 39, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Mr. Lincoln’s Contemporaries: An Album of Portraits by Mathew B. Brady (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951), by Roy Meredith;
reviewed by David Donald
March 1952, Vol. 38, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and the Press (McGraw-Hill, 1951), by Robert S. Harper;
reviewed by Ella Lonn
December 1951, Vol. 38, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Constitutional Problems under Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 1951), by J. G. Randall;
reviewed by Kenneth M. Stampp
June 1951, Vol. 38, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
1941–1950
- The Lincoln Encyclopedia: The Spoken and Written Words of A. Lincoln, Arranged for Ready Reference (Macmillan, 1950), by Archer H. Shaw;
reviewed by Paul M. Angle
December 1950, Vol. 37, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln Finds a General; A Military Study of the Civil War, Vols. I–II (Macmillan, 1949), by Kenneth P. Williams;
reviewed by Kenneth M. Stampp
June 1950, Vol. 37, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln and the United States (Macmillan, 1949), by K. C. Wheare;
reviewed by David Donald
March 1950, Vol. 36, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln’s Vandalia; A Pioneer Portrait (Rutgers University Press, 1949), by William E. Baringer;
reviewed by Jay Monaghan
March 1950, Vol. 36, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 1861: From Pinkerton Records and Related Papers (Huntington Library, 1949), by Norma B. Cuthbert;
reviewed by Donald W. Riddle
December 1949, Vol. 36, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln’s Secretary: A Biography of John G. Nicolay (Longmans, Green and Company, 1949), by Helen Nicolay;
reviewed by Chase C. Mooney
December 1949, Vol. 36, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Uncollected Works of Abraham Lincoln: His Letters, Addresses and Other Papers. Vol. II, 1841 to 1845 (Primavera Press, 1948), assembled and annotated by Rufus Rockwell Wilson;
reviewed by T. Harry Williams
December 1949, Vol. 36, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and the Bible (Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1949), by Clarence Edward Macartney;
reviewed by Donald W. Riddle
September 1949, Vol. 36, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and the Preachers (Harper & Brothers, 1948), by Edgar DeWitt Jones;
reviewed by William W. Sweet
June 1949, Vol. 36, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln under Enemy Fire: The Complete Account of His Experiences during Early’s Attack on Washington (Louisiana State University Press, 1948), by John Henry Cramer;
reviewed by David Donald
March 1949, Vol. 35, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln’s Herndon (Alfred A. Knopf, 1948), by David Donald;
reviewed by T. Harry Williams
March 1949, Vol. 35, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and the War Governors (Alfred A. Knopf, 1948), by William B. Hesseltine;
reviewed by Roy F. Nichols
December 1948, Vol. 35, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln Runs for Congress (Rutgers University Press, 1948), by Donald W. Riddle;
reviewed by William B. Hesseltine
December 1948, Vol. 35, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Country Life in American as Lived by Ten Presidents of the United States: John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge (Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), by Edward T. Booth;
reviewed by Earle D. Ross
June 1948, Vol. 35, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Sidelights on Lincoln (Wetzel Publishing, 1947), by Frank McGlynn;
reviewed by Donald W. Riddle
September 1948, Vol. 35, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Portrait for Posterity: Lincoln and His Biographers (Rutgers University Press, 1947), by Benjamin P. Thomas;
reviewed by T. Harry Williams
March 1948, Vol. 34, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln: His Life in Photographs (Grosset and Dunlap, 1947), by Stefan Lorant;
reviewed by Jay Monaghan
December 1947, Vol. 34, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln, the Liberal Statesman (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1947), by J. G. Randall;
reviewed by Richard N. Current
December 1947, Vol. 34, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Uncollected Works of Abraham Lincoln: His Letters, Addresses and Other Papers (a supplement to and revision of The Complete Works of Lincoln, by Nicolay and Hal, Vol. I, 1824–1840) (Primavera Press, 1947), assembled and annotated by Rufus Rockwell Wilson;
reviewed by Donald W. Riddle
December 1947, Vol. 34, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Lincoln Reader (Rutgers University Press, 1947), edited by Paul M. Angle;
reviewed by David M. Potter
June 1947, Vol. 34, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln & the Widow Bixby (Rutgers University Press, 1946), by F. Lauriston Bullard;
reviewed by John S. Wright
March 1947, Vol. 33, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings (World Publishing, 1946), edited by Roy P. Basler;
reviewed by Charles R. Wilson
March 1947, Vol. 33, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and the South (Louisiana State University Press, 1946), by J. G. Randall;
reviewed by Paul M. Angle
December 1946, Vol. 33, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln the President: Springfield to Gettysburg (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1945), by J. G. Randall;
reviewed by T. Harry Williams
March 1946, Vol. 32, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - A House Dividing: Lincoln as President Elect (Abraham Lincoln Association, 1945), by William E. Baringer;
reviewed by William B. Hesseltine
December 1945, Vol. 32, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln Group Papers: Twelve Addresses Delivered before the Lincoln Group of Chicago on Varied Aspects of Abraham Lincoln’s Life. Second Series (J. Henri Ripstra, 1945), no author or editor listed;
reviewed by J. L. McCorison Jr.
December 1945, Vol. 32, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Diplomat in Carpet Slippers: Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs (Bobbs-Merrill, 1945), by Jay Monaghan;
reviewed by Joe Patterson Smith
September 1945, Vol. 32, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The First Lincoln Campaign (Harvard University Press, 1944), by Reinhard H. Luthin;
reviewed by Kenneth M. Stampp
June 1945, Vol. 32, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln Bibliography, 1839–1939. Collections of the Illinois State Historcial Library, Vol. XXI and XXXII, Bibliographical Series, Vol. IV and V (Illinois State Historical Library, 1945), compiled by Jay Monaghan and edited by Paul M. Angle;
reviewed by Charles R. Wilson
June 1945, Vol. 32, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Mentor Graham: The Man Who Taught Lincoln (University of Chicago Press, 1944), by Kunigunde Duncan, Duncan A. Buell, and D. F. Nickols;
reviewed by R. Carlyle Buley
March 1945, Vol. 31, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Concerning Mr. Lincoln: In Which Abraham Lincoln Is Pictured as He Appeared to Letter Writers of His Time (Abraham Lincoln Association, 1944), compiled by Harry E. Pratt;
reviewed by Charles R. Wilson
June 1944, Vol. 31, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Navy Department (Bobbs-Merrill, 1943), by Richard S. West Jr.;
reviewed by Rodman W. Paul
June 1944, Vol. 31, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1944), by Frederick Hill Meserve and Carl Sandburg;
reviewed by Harry E. Pratt
June 1944, Vol. 31, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and the Patronage (Columbia University Press, 1943), by Harry J. Carman and Reinhard H. Luthin;
reviewed by Dwight L. Dumond
March 1944, Vol. 30, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and California (Stanford University Press, 1943), by Milton H. Shutes;
reviewed by Harry E. Pratt
September 1943, Vol. 30, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Personal Finances of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln Association, 1943), by Harry E. Pratt;
reviewed by J. G. Randall
September 1943, Vol. 30, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Little Giant: The Story of Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln (Julian Messner, 1942), by Jeannette Covert Nolan;
reviewed by Harry E. Pratt
March 1943, Vol. 29, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis (Yale University Press, 1942), by David M. Potter;
reviewed by Kenneth M. Stampp
December 1942, Vol. 29, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Lincoln: His Life in Photographs (Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1941), by Stefan Lorant; and They Knew Lincoln (E. P. Dutton & Co., 1942), by John E. Washington; joint review by T. Harry Williams
September 1942, Vol. 29, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and the Radicals (University of Wisconsin Press, 1941), by T. Harry Williams;
reviewed by J. L. Sellers
March 1942, Vol. 28, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln’s Kalamazoo Address against Extending Slavery (Fine Book Circle, 1941), by Joseph J. Lewis;
reviewed by M. M. Quaife
December 1941, Vol. 28, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - My Dear Lady: The Story of Anna Ella Carroll, the “Great Unrecognized Member of Lincoln’s Cabinet” (Whittlesey House, 1940), by Marjorie Barstow Greenbie;
reviewed by J. H. Powell
December 1941, Vol. 28, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Presidential Elections: From Abraham Lincoln to Franklin D. Roosevelt (University of Oklahoma Press, 1940), by Cortez A. M. Ewing;
reviewed by Edgar Eugene Robinson
March 1941, Vol. 27, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
1931–1940
- Abraham Lincoln Association Papers, Delivered before the Members of the Abraham Lincoln Association, at Springfield, Illinois, on February 11, 12, 1939 (Abraham Lincoln Association, 1940), no author or editor listed;
reviewed by Christopher B. Coleman
December 1940, Vol. 27, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (Random House, 1940), edited with a biographical essay by Philip Van Doren Stern;
reviewed by J. G. Randall
September 1940, Vol. 27, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Life on the Circuit with Lincoln (Caxton, 1940; originally published in 1892), by Henry C. Whitney and edited by Paul A. Angle;
reviewed by J. L. Sellers
September 1940, Vol. 27, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln: 1840–1846, Being the Day-by-Day Activities of Abraham Lincoln from January 1, 1840 to December
31, 1846 (Abraham Lincoln Association, 1939), by Harry E. Pratt;
reviewed by Christopher B. Coleman
June 1940, Vol. 27, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939), by Carl Sandburg;
reviewed by Emanuel Hertz
March 1940, Vol. 26, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Lincoln’s Hungarian Heroes: The Participation of Hungarians in the Civil War, 1861–1865 (Hungarian
Reformed Federation of America, 1939), by Edmund Vasvary;
reviewed by Carl Wittke
December 1939, Vol. 26, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Man Who Killed Lincoln: The Story of John Wilkes Booth and His Part in the Assassination (Random
House, 1939), by Philip Van D. Stern;
reviewed by William B. Hesseltine
June 1939, Vol. 26, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Hidden Lincoln, from the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon (Viking, 1938), by Emanuel Hertz;
reviewed by Paul M. Angle
June 1938, Vol. 25, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln’s Rise to Power (Little, Brown and Co., 1937), by William Baringer;
reviewed by Christopher B. Coleman
June 1938, Vol. 25, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Why Was Lincoln Murdered? (Little, Brown and Co., 1937), by Otto Eisenschiml;
reviewed by J. G. Randall
September 1937, Vol. 24, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln Day by Day: 1847–1853 (Abraham Lincoln Association, 1936), by Benjamin P. Thomas;
reviewed by Christopher B. Coleman
June 1937, Vol. 24, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lawyer Lincoln (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936), by Albert A. Woldman;
reviewed by Paul M. Angle
March 1937, Vol. 23, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Lincoln in the Political Circus (Black Cat, 1936), by Blaine Brooks Gernon;
reviewed by J. G. Randall
March 1937, Vol. 23, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- “Here I Have Lived.” A History of Lincoln’s Springfield, 1821–1865 (Abraham Lincoln Association, 1935), by Paul M. Angle;
reviewed by Theodore Calvin Pease
September 1936, Vol. 23, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Lincoln Legend: A Study in Changing Conceptions (Houghton Mifflin, 1935), by Roy P. Basler;
reviewed by M. M. Quaife
March 1936, Vol. 22, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln’s New Salem (Abraham Lincoln Association, 1934), by Benjamin P. Thomas;
reviewed by T. C. Pease
June 1935, Vol. 22, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln Association Papers Delivered before the Members of the Abraham Lincoln Association (Abraham Lincoln Association, 1934), no author or editor listed;
reviewed by W. B. Hesseltine
September 1934, Vol. 21, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln, 1854–1861: Being the Day-by-Day Activities of Abraham Lincoln from January 1, 1854 to March 4, 1861 (Abraham Lincoln Association, 1933), by Paul M. Angle;
reviewed by J. L. Sellers
June 1934, Vol. 21, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow. Part I (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932), by Carl Sandburg;
Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow. Part II, Letters Documents and Appendix (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932), by Paul M. Angle; and
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln: A Study of Her Personality and Her Influence on Lincoln (Alfred A. Knopf, 1932), by W. A. Evans;
joint book review by A. C. Cole
June 1934, Vol. 21, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - 1933 no entries
- Lincoln the Unknown (Century Company, 1932), by Dale Carnegie;
reviewed by Theodore C. Pease
December 1932, Vol. 19, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln the Politician: How the Rail-Splitter and Flatboatman Played the Great American Game (Coward-McCann, 1931), by Don C. Seitz;
reviewed by J. G. Randall
December 1931, Vol. 18, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and His Cabinet (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1931), by Clarence Edward Macartney;
reviewed by James Sellers
September 1931, Vol. 18, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln the Man (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931), by Edgar Lee Masters;
reviewed by M. M. Quaife
September 1931, Vol. 18, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln Traveled This Way: The Log Book of a Pilgrim to the Lincoln Country (L. C. Page and Company, 1930), by Fred L. Holmes;
reviewed by J. G. Randall
March 1931, Vol. 17, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
1921–1930
- A Cartoon History: Abraham Lincoln, His Path to the Presidency; The Year of His Election (Review of Reviews Corporation, 1929), by Albert Shaw;
reviewed by Louis A. Warren
December 1930, Vol. 17, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - New Letters and Papers of Lincoln (Houghton Mifflin, 1930), compiled by Paul M. Angle;
reviewed by Christopher B. Coleman
December 1930, Vol. 17, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Lincoln at Gettysburg (Bobbs-Merrill, 1930), by William E. Barton;
reviewed by Paul M. Angle
September 1930, Vol. 17, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Lincoln and His Wife’s Home Town (Bobbs-Merrill, 1929), by William H. Townsend;
reviewed by Lois K. M. Rosenberry
June 1930, Vol. 17, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - John Wilkes Booth: Fact and Fiction of Lincoln’s Assassination (Houghton Mifflin, 1929), by Francis Wilson;
reviewed by C. S. Larzelere
March 1930, Vol. 16, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Tragic Era: The Revolution after Lincoln (Houghton Mifflin, 1929), by Claude G. Bowers;
reviewed by James C. Malin
March 1930, Vol. 16, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Lineage of Lincoln (Bobbs-Merrill, 1929), by William E. Barton;
reviewed by E. M. Coulter
December 1929, Vol. 16, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Myths after Lincoln (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929), by Lloyd Lewis, reviewed by Paul M. Angle
December 1929, Vol. 16, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln (Harper and Brothers, 1928), by Katherine Helm;
reviewed by Paul M. Angle
June 1929, Vol. 16, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Lincoln: Emancipator of the Nation (D. Appleton & Company, 1928), by Frederick Trevor Hill;
no reviewer listed
March 1929, Vol. 15, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Lincoln the Hoosier (Eden Publishing House, 1928), by Charles Garrett Vannest;
reviewed by John W. Oliver
March 1929, Vol. 15, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman (Bobbs-Merrill, 1928), by William E. Barton;
reviewed by R. S. Cotterill
September 1928, Vol. 15, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Abraham Lincoln, the Merciful President: The Pardon of the Sleeping Sentinel (W. F. Roberts, 1927), by Allen C. Clark;
reviewed by William E. Barton
March 1928, Vol. 14, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Constitutional Problems under Lincoln (D. Appleton and Company, 1926), by James G. Randall;
reviewed by Arthur C. Cole
March 1928, Vol. 14, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and the Railroads (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927), by John W. Starr Jr.;
reviewed by William E. Barton March 1928, Vol. 14, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Women Lincoln Loved (Bobbs-Merrill, 1927), by William E. Barton;
reviewed by M. M. Quaife
March 1928, Vol. 14, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - A History of the People of the United States during Lincoln’s Administration (D. Appleton and Company, 1927), by John Bach McMaster;
reviewed by James L. Sellers
December 1927, Vol. 14, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - The Military Genius of Abraham Lincoln: An Essay (Oxford University Press, 1926), by Colin R. Ballard;
reviewed by M. M. Quaife
December 1927, Vol. 14, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - A Reporter for Lincoln: Story of Henry E. Wing, Soldier and Newspaperman (Macmillan, 1927), by Ida M. Tarbell;
no reviewer listed
December 1927, Vol. 14, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln’s Parentage and Childhood: A History of the Kentucky Lincolns Supported by Documentary Evidence (Century, 1926), by Louis Austin Warren;
reviewed by M. M. Quaife
March 1927, Vol. 13, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and His Generals (Dorrance and Company, 1925), by Clarence Edward Macartney;
reviewed by Thomas Robson Hay
December 1926, Vol. 13, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926), by Carl Sandburg;
reviewed by M. M. Quaife
September 1926, Vol. 13, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln in the National Capital (W. F. Roberts, 1925), by Allen C. Clark;
no reviewer listed
March 1926, Vol. 12, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln, the Litigant (Houghton Mifflin, 1925), by William H. Townsend;
no reviewer listed
June 1925, Vol. 12, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln’s Last Speech in Springfield in the Campaign of 1858 (University of Chicago Press, 1925), no author
or editor listed;
reviewed by M. M. Quaife June 1925, Vol. 12, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln (J. B. Lippincott, 1924), by Henry B. Rankin;
reviewed by M. M. Quaife
September 1924, Vol. 11, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - 1923 no entries
- 1922 no entries
- Lincoln, the World Emancipator (Houghton Mifflin, 1920), by John Drinkwater;
reviewed by Arthur C. Cole
June–September 1921, Vol. 8, Nos. 1–2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled North (Yale University Press, 1919), by Nathaniel W. Stephenson and edited by Allen Johnson;
reviewed by Arthur C. Cole
March 1921, Vol. 7, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
1914–1920
- Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Letters (Reilly and Britton, 1918), by Luther Emerson Robinson;
reviewed by Daniel Kilham Dodge
March 1920, Vol. 6, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Lincoln, the Politician (Richard G. Badger, 1918), by T. Aaron Levy;
reviewed by A. C. Cole
March 1919, Vol. 5, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- The Voice of Lincoln (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1918), by R. M. Wanamaker;
reviewed by W. W. Sweet
March 1919, Vol. 5, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln and Wartime Memories Including Many Heretofore Unpublished Incidents and Historical Facts Concerning His Ancestry, Boyhood, Family, Religion, Public Life, Trials and Triumphs (Fleming H. Revell, 1918), by Erwin Chapman;
reviewed by Arthur C. Cole
December 1918, Vol. 5, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln in Illinois (Houghton Mifflin, 1918), by Octavia Roberts;
no reviewer listed
December 1918, Vol. 5, No. 3, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln: An Address by Clark Prescott Bissett (Cannell, Smith, Chaffin, 1916), by Clark Prescott Bissett;
reviewed by William V. Pooley
June 1918, Vol. 5, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Government (Chicago Legal News, 1916), by Bartow A. Ulrich;
no reviewer listed
March 1918, Vol. 4, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Uncollected Letters of Abraham Lincoln (Houghton Mifflin, 1917), compiled by Gilbert A. Tracey;
reviewed by Arthur C. Cole
March 1918, Vol. 4, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Political Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (G. P. Putnum’s Sons, 1912, New Edition, 1916), introduction by George Haven Putnam;
no reviewer or editor listed
June 1917, Vol. 4, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review
- Abraham Lincoln, the Lawyer-Statesman (Houghton Mifflin, 1916), by John T. Richards;
reviewed by Charles M. Thompson
March 1917, Vol. 3, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Story of Young Abraham Lincoln (Henry Altemus, 1915), by Wayne Whipple;
reviewed by Edwin E. Sparks
September 1916, Vol. 3, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln and Episodes of the Civil War (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1915), by William E. Doster;
reviewed by E. E. Sparks
June 1916, Vol. 3, No. 1, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Lincoln, Labor and Slavery (Socialist Literature, 1913), by Herman Schlüter;
reviewed by William O. Scroggs
September 1915, Vol. 2, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Abraham Lincoln (Macmillan, 1914), by Rose Strunsky;
reviewed by C. M. T.
March 1915, Vol. 1, No. 4, Mississippi Valley Historical Review - Personal Recollections of Early Decatur, Abraham Lincoln, Richard J. Oglesby, and the Civil War (Decatur Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, 1912), by Jane Martin Johns and edited by Howard A. Schaub;
reviewed by Solon J. Buck
September 1914, Vol. 1, No. 2, Mississippi Valley Historical Review