The Ford’s Theatre campus will be closed on May 21 and June 3, 2012.
The campus includes the museum, theatre, Petersen House and Center for Education and Leadership.

Suggested Reads

BOOKS:

BEYOND THE BATTLEFIELD: RACE, MEMORY, AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
by David W. Blight

FREDERICK DOUGLASS' CIVIL WAR: KEEPING FAITH IN JUBILEE
by David W. Blight

INSIDE LINCOLN'S WHITE HOUSE: THE COMPLETE CIVIL WAR DIARY OF JOHN HAY
by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger, eds.

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
by Frederick Douglass

THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS PAPERS: SERIES ONE: SPEECHES, DEBATES AND INTERVIEWS; VOLUME 4: 1864-80
by Frederick Douglass
Editors: John W. Blassingame and John R. McKivigan

RECOLLECTED WORDS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
by Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher

THE FIERY TRIAL: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND AMERICAN SLAVERY
by Eric Foner

THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, VOL III: THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865
by Philip S. Foner

THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, VOL IV: RECONSTRUCTION AND AFTER
by Philip S. Foner

DOUGLASS AND LINCOLN
by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1859-1865
by Abraham Lincoln
New York: The Library of America, 1989

THE RADICAL AND THE REPUBLICAN: FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AND THE TRIUMPH OF ANTISLAVERY POLITICS
by James Oakes

LINCOLN'S SANCTUARY: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE SOILDERS' HOME
by Matthew Pinsker

GIANTS: THE PARALLEL LIVES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN
by John Stauffer

LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG: THE WORDS THAT REMADE AMERICA
by Garry Wills