Lincoln, Abraham

Contains the texts of three versions of the Emancipation Proclamation, including Abraham Lincoln's first draft from July, 1862, the preliminary proclamation read to his cabinet in September, 1862, and the final version issued on January 1, 1863, and features Lincoln's preliminary remarks to the September reading, and the Thirteenth Amendement.

Presents photographs and text alongside images of handwritten manuscripts penned by Abraham Lincoln, and features speeches, letters, and childhood notebooks.

On cover: His own words, with essays by America's foremost Civil War historians.

Presents the text of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with period illustrations and contemporary photographs.

Illustrated and inscribed, the spoken words of President Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863.

An illustrated text of the Gettysburg Address.