A Family in Mourning - President Lincoln's Cottage
Curator of President Lincoln's Cottage, Callie Hawkins, discusses the Lincoln Family's decision to move to the cottage and the role it played in their lives during the Civil War years.
Related Resources
- Emancipation Proclamation Home
- "For a Vast Future Also:" Lincoln and the Millennium
- "Thenceforward and Forever Free:" The Emancipation Proclamation and Its Effect on the War
- The National Archives Emancipation Proclamation
- Our Documents, View the Actual Document (NARA)
- Exhibit on the Emancipation Proclamation (LOC)
- Lincoln at 200: Emancipation Proclamation
Recommended Books
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin











