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Links of Interest

  • NEW "Mary Lincoln: An Annotated Bibliography  Supplement," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 104 no. 3 (Fall 2011): 238-249.
  • "Lincoln's Son Loved the Links: Robert Todd Lincoln and the Game of Golf," Lincoln Forum Bulletin 28 (Fall 2010): 8-9, 12.
  • 'I have done my duty as I best know and Providence must take care of the rest': Reconsidering Mary Lincoln's Sanity and Robert Lincoln's Motivations, Bulletin of the 68th Annual Meeting of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, April 18, 2009, Historical Bulletin Number 63.
  • "Mary Lincoln: An Annotated Bibliography," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 103, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 180-235.
  • "The Secret Six" American Heritage, 59, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 20-24.
  • "New Mary Lincoln Letter Found" Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101, no. 3-4 (March 2009): 315-328.
  • "Abraham Lincoln as an Advocate of Transportation" Defense Transportation Journal, 65, no. 1 (February 2009): 18-20.
  • "A Man of Considerable Mechanical Genius: Abraham Lincoln was the only U.S. president to hold a patent," Invention & Technology, 23, no. 4 (Winter 2009): 10-13.
  • "President Lincoln's Patent Model," Civil War Times, 48, no. 1 (February 2009): 57-59.
  • "New Evidence From an Ignored Voice: Robert Todd Lincoln and the Authorship of the Bixby Letter," Lincoln Herald 110, no. 2 (summer 2008): 86-116.
  • "In His Father's Shadow: Searching for the Real Robert Todd Lincoln," Civil War Times, 47, no. 5 (October 2008): 54-57.
  • "Mary Lincoln's Madness," (book excerpt), U.S. News & World Report, Collector's Edition, "Secrets of the Civil War," (2008): 52-53.
  • The Madness of Mary Lincoln (book excerpt), published on the Cleveland Civil War Round Table website.
  • "Mary Todd Lincoln's Lost Letters from the Asylum," Civil War Times (October 2007)
  • The Madness of Mary Lincoln -- American Heritage Magazine (July 2006)
  • "Aftermath of an Assassination: Recently Discovered Letters from the Days After Lincoln's Murder," American History 41, no. 2 (June 2006): 24-30, 74.
  • Lincoln's Letter to the Widow Bixby -- American Heritage Magazine (March 2006)
  • "A Very Dreadful Night: Robert Todd Lincoln and his Father's Assassination," Lincoln Forum Bulletin 18 (November 2005): 10-11.
  • How Booth Saved Lincoln's Life -- Civil War Times Magazine (April 2005)
  • Avoiding the Gilded Prison: Robert Todd Lincoln for President -- American History Magazine (December 2004)
  • "Of Such is the Kingdom of Heaven": The Mystery of 'Little Eddie' -- Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (Autumn 1999)
  • "The Poetic Lincoln," Lincoln Herald 101, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 4-12.


UPCOMING ARTICLES
  • "A Medal for Mrs. Lincoln," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 109, no. 2 (Spring 2012)