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albs_SUPAdminDecember 16, 2016

Abraham Lincoln Book Shop Featured in Chicago Tribune

Take a look at today's Chicago Tribune article and accompanying video about Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. Owner and President, Daniel Weinberg shares insights about the shop, our new Authors Voice® program and his over 40 years in the business of books. Chicago ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminSeptember 26, 2016

Officially Open!

We are still stocking shelves and hanging things here at Abraham Lincoln Book Shop; but we are Open For Business! Please stop by to see our new shop at 824 W. Superior St, Suite 100. It is at Superior St. and ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMarch 16, 2016

Nicolay and Hay, and Their “Other” Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: A History, by President Lincoln’s private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay, stands even today as the most massive single work ever written on the sixteenth president. The publication of the ten-volume set by the Century Company in ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMarch 1, 2016

Ambrose Bierce in the Midst of Life

1 March 2016 Most of us encounter the influential short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge in our high school literature classes. Lit teachers like to assign Ambrose Bierce’s haunting tale of psychological terror because of its innovative use of ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminFebruary 10, 2016

James G. Randall and his Essential Lincoln Volumes

10 February 2016 James Garfield Randall was born in 1881, and named for the man who was then president of the United States. President Garfield, of course, did not survive the year, but his namesake lived to become, perhaps, the greatest ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminDecember 17, 2015

New Presidential & New Lincoln Bibliographies

We are excited to share our Presidential Book Shelf and Essential Lincoln Book Shelf Bibliographies, updated for 2015. The body of work for both subjects can be daunting and overwhelming. These tools are designed to help you know what to read ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMay 6, 2015

Lincoln’s Chicago Funeral Commemoration Ceremony

Abraham Lincoln Book Shop staged the only Commemoration Ceremony for the Sesquicentennial of Lincoln's Chicago Funeral. We worked closely with the City of Chicago and the alderman's office in order th stage it at the exact location where the funeral train ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminApril 28, 2015

Commemorating The Sesquicentennial of Lincoln Lying In State at Chicago

Please join us on May 1 as we Commemorate the Sesquicentennial of Lincoln's Lying in State in Chicago. The program begins at 10:45am and takes place in Grant Park. We will assemble in the park just east of 1130 S. Michigan ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMarch 31, 2015

NBC 5 Chicago Interview

Update: Watch the Video March 31, 2015. Here in Illinois, we are all abuzz about our recently resigned U. S. Representative Aaron Schock. Not only did he compare himself to Lincoln during his Farewell speech, but both Lincoln and Schock have ... Read More

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albs_SUPAdminMarch 18, 2015

Anna Ella Carroll

March 18, 2015. A number of official organizations celebrate March as Women’s History Month. This month the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the National Park Service, and the Smithsonian (just to name a few national institutions) will be honoring ... Read More

Abraham Lincoln Book Shop Featured in Chicago Tribune

Officially Open!

Nicolay and Hay, and Their “Other” Lincoln

Ambrose Bierce in the Midst of Life

James G. Randall and his Essential Lincoln Volumes

New Presidential & New Lincoln Bibliographies

Lincoln’s Chicago Funeral Commemoration Ceremony

Commemorating The Sesquicentennial of Lincoln Lying In State at Chicago

NBC 5 Chicago Interview

Anna Ella Carroll

New Acquisitions

T. Harry Williams, Hayes of the ...

Eron Rowland, Andrew Jackson’s Campaign Against ...

David Rubenstein, Abraham Lincoln: His Life ...

Stanley Horn, The Army of Tennessee, ...

W. S. Morris, History 31st Regiment ...

Pitman, Benn, ed., The Trials for ...

John McElroy, Si Klegg, Book No. ...

Andrew Johnson, Expulsion of Mr. Bright, ...

Horace White, The Lincoln and Douglas ...

Felix G. Stidger, Treason History of ...