The papers of abraham lincoln [the papers of abraham lincoln is a documentary editing project dedicated to identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing online all documents written…

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the "Promotion of the Humanities Research" (CFDA 45.161) program to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Illinois. This grant supports efforts to identify, image, transcribe, annotate, and publish online all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime (1809-1865). The goal is to replace the existing Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln publication with a new comprehensive online repository of Lincoln-related documents and correspondence. This work aims to promote new and innovative scholarship on Abraham Lincoln, the antebellum period, and the Civil War era. The grant project period runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025.

The papers of abraham lincoln [the papers of abraham lincoln is a documentary editing project dedicated to identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing online all documents written by or to abraham lincoln during his lifetime (1809-1865). The papers of abraham lincoln aspires to promote new and innovative scholarship on abraham lincoln, antebellum america, and the civil war by replacing the collected works of abraham lincoln, which encompassed 6,769 documents in eight volumes and two supplemental volumes (1953-55, 1974, 1990), as the standard compilation of lincoln documents.]