Lincoln’s Birthday is a commemorative volume gathering writings, tributes, and addresses associated with the observance of Abraham Lincoln’s birth on February 12. Works of this kind, produced in the decades after Lincoln’s assassination, reflect the active construction of Lincoln’s place in American memory — celebrating his leadership during the Civil War, his role in emancipation, and his symbolic significance to the American democratic ideal.
As a document of Lincoln’s popular legacy rather than strictly of his life and career, this volume offers a window into how Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries remembered and mythologized their sixteenth president. Download this free EPUB for a collection rooted in Lincoln commemoration and public memory.