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The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana Pamphlet Digital Collection

The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana Pamphlet Digital Collection contains hundreds of original political tracts, speeches, pamphlets, broadsides, and other printed works from the 1830s to the 1920s. Included are original printings of Abraham Lincoln speeches made in the Illinois House of Representatives, copies of the Lincoln/Douglas debates, General Orders issued during the Civil War, and Republican Party tracts organizing African American voters during Reconstruction.

Subject
Black/African American History
Civil War
Law
Politics
Reconstruction