University of Illinois

University of Illinois Campus Resources

• Lincoln bicentennial celebration, an overview of the history of Lincoln and his relationship to the University of Illinois as well as highlights of cross-campus events to celebrate his life and legacy.
  
  
• "Lincoln's Unfinished Legacy" and race relations in the United States following the Lincoln era was discussed in September by Dr. James Loewen in Brookens Auditorium at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
  
  
• Digitized collection of nearly 650 books that pertain to Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War, and slavery. The collection, part of the Illinois Harvest resource from the Urbana campus library, includes biographies and writings of Lincoln and his contemporaries, contemporary accounts of the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination, memorial volumes, campaign literature from the 1860 election, Civil War sheet music.
  
  
• Digital repository of Lincoln's writings for scientific and educational purposes created by the National Center for Supercomputing Application on the Urbana campus
  
  
• Audio from the Future of Education panel, hosted by the Institute of Government and Public Affairs on October 7, 2009. Panelists included former Illinois governor Jim Edgar, executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education Judy Erwin, and Lincoln scholar O. Vernon Burton.
  
  
• Papers of Abraham Lincoln, a joint intiative of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the Abraham Lincoln Association, and UIS's Center for State Policy and Leadership
  
  
• Abraham Lincoln Fellowship, a UIC program designed to increase excellence and diversity of the graduate student body
  
  
• Carl Sandburg Collection at the UIC University Library special collections
  
  

Is your University of Illinois unit sponsoring a Lincoln bicentennial resource? Send details (description and URL) to InfoSource@uillinois.edu.

Bicentennial Commissions

• Federal Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
  
• State of Illinois Lincoln Bicentennial commission
  
• Tri-state Centennial Celebration (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana)
  

Museums and Historic Locations

Fun for Kids

• Signed, Sealed, Delivered, a statewide envelope design contest with categories for kindergartners through adults from Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
  
• Color Lincoln!, from the White House website
  
• Crossroads Game, from the National Constitution Center
  
• Abraham Lincoln quiz, from the federal Lincoln Bicentennial Commission website
  
• Facts about Abraham Lincoln, from the federal Lincoln Bicentennial Commission website
  

Further Reading

• Lincoln the Lawyer
  
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  
• The Lincoln Assassination
  
• Abraham Lincoln Books for Children and Youth
  
• Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln Resources
  
• Abraham Lincoln Biographies