The most enduring memorial to Lincoln / Carl Sandburg -- From the autobiography of Abraham Lincoln -- The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln / Louis A. Warren -- The world of Tom and Nancy Lincoln / R. Gerald McMurtry -- Lincoln's boyhood / Sterling North -- The Indiana years of Abraham Lincoln / Philip Van Doren Stern -- Lincoln in New Salem / Paul M. Angle -- Abraham Lincoln's first loves / Olive Carruthers -- Lincoln enters politics / William E. Baringer -- Abraham Lincoln: Illinois legislator / Clyde C. Walton -- Abraham Lincoln takes a wife / Marion D. Pratt -- Lincoln emerges as a leader / Leo A. Lerner -- Lincoln the lawyer / Willard L. King -- Congressman Abraham Lincoln / Donald W. Riddle -- Lincoln and Herndon / Albert A. Woldman.

(cont.) Lincoln re-enters politics / Allan Nevins -- Lincoln in Springfield / William G. Stratton -- The Lincoln family / Ruth Painter Randall -- Lincoln and Douglas / Paul H. Douglas -- Abraham Lincoln: storyteller / Mort Reis Lewis -- Lincoln at the Cooper Union / Johnson E. Fairchild -- The Republican Party chooses a candidate / Walter Trohan -- The election of 1860 / Adlai E. Stevenson -- The self-education of Abraham Lincoln / Robert L. Kincaid -- Lincoln's last days in Illinois / Earl Schenck Miers -- The face of Abraham Lincoln / Avard Fairbanks -- Lincoln goes to Washington / Shelby Foote -- Lincoln organizes the government / Richard N. Current -- The six most fateful weeks in American history / David M. Potter.

(cont.) President Lincoln and weapons policy / Robert V. Bruce -- Lincoln and the Navy / Joseph T. Durkin -- White House routine under Lincoln / Lloyd A. Dunlap -- President Lincoln and General Grant / E.B. Long -- The war powers of President Lincoln / Fred Schwengel -- Lincoln as a liberal statesman / Ralph W. Yarborough -- Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson DAvis / Frank E. Vandiver -- Lincoln and the Copperheads / Wood Gray -- Lincoln and the statesmen of rebellion / Robert D. Meade -- Lincoln remakes the Supreme Court / Irving Dilliard -- The unpopular Mr. Lincoln / Robert S. Harper -- The election of 1864 / Howard K. Beale -- The photogenic Mr. Lincoln / Roy Meredith.

(cont.) Lincoln and his hope for a just and lasting peace / Carl Haverlin -- Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment / Justin Miller -- Lincoln and music / Kenneth A. Bernard -- Lincoln and the advent of peace / Otto Eisenschiml -- Lincoln as a dramatic subject / Dore Schary -- Lincoln in Richmond / Clifford Dowdey -- Lincoln and the whole nation / Henry S. Commager -- Lincoln as a man of letters / Roy P. Basler -- Lincoln's plan of Reconstruction / William B. Hesseltine -- Abraham Lincoln and the art of the word / Marianne Moore -- Lincoln's humility / Norman A. Graebner -- Lincoln and the Fourteenth Amendment / Sherrill Halbert -- A playwright looks at Lincoln / Mark Van Doren -- Mr. Lincoln goes to the theatre / Randle B. Truett.

(cont.) The nation mourns / Arnold Gates -- The faith of Abraham Lincoln / Richard Paul Graebel -- Lincoln and the family of man / Ralph G. Newman -- Reflections while standing before the Lincoln Memorial / Helen M. Newell and Nancy A. Potter -- Lincoln in the archives / C. Percy Powell -- Lincoln chronology / Harry E. and Marion D. Pratt.