Website of the Week

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.alincoln-library.com/Apps/default.asp

One of America's greatest Presidents now has a long-overdue Presidential Library. Dedicated on Nov. 18th of this year, Lincoln's Presidential Library was dedicated in Springfield, Illinois and the companion museum is under construction.

The Illinois State Historical Library, with the world's largest Lincoln collection of 46,000 items will be relocated to the new facility.

The website currently features:

• a bibliography of selected readings about Lincoln
• links to Lincoln papers
• a collection of famous quotes incorrectly attributed to Lincoln
• a chronology of his life
• a kid's page.

Other important Lincoln websites include:

• the digital Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html
• the Papers of Abraham Lincoln collected by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, http://www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org/, including information about Lincoln's legal practice, http://www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org/narrative_overview.htm
• the Lincoln Legal Papers project, http://www.lincolnlegalpapers.org/
• the Abraham Lincoln Association, http://www.alincolnassoc.com/