Quelleninformationen
Ancestry.com. Abraham Lincoln-Papiere [Datenbank online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.Ursprüngliche Daten: Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division (Washington, D.C.: American Memory Project, [2000-02]), http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alhome.html, accessed 2009.
Abraham Lincoln-Papiere
Diese Datenbank enthält die Papiere von Abraham Lincoln, die ungefähr aus 20.000 separaten Dokumenten bestehen. Die Sammlung stammt aus der US-Library of Congress und umfasst die Jahre 1833-1897, obwohl der Großteil der Dokumente aus den 1850-er Jahren bis 1865 stammen.
This database contains the papers of Abraham Lincoln, consisting of approximately 20,000 separate documents. The collection comes from the U.S. Library of Congress and is organized into three General Correspondence series:
- Series 1: 1833-1865
- Series 2: 1858-1865
- Series 3: 1837-1897
The majority of the papers date from the 1850s to 1865. They consist of correspondences, memos, notes, drafts of speeches, and other such documents.
Many of the documents, primary those written by Lincoln himself, have been annotated by the Lincoln Studies Center. The annotations provide explanations and bring historical context to the documents.
