Learn more about President Lincoln at the IU Libraries as the United States celebrates President's Day this month.

The Lilly Library's Lincoln collection includes more than 8,000 books and pamphlets, photographs, etchings, and works of art, as well as 2,000 manuscripts. The library's holdings of materials relating to Lincoln's assassination and funeral are the most extensive in the United States and probably the world. Additionally, the library's online exhibit of historical U.S. documents features Civil War information, including the image and text of the Confederate surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, signed by Robert E. Lee in 1865.

Find more information about Lincoln using the IU Libraries' electronic resources. The AP Photo Archive contains about 500,000 photos from the Associated Press library from 1844 to the present, including the photo of Lincoln with his son at left. The New York Times Historical Newspapers has full text and full page images dating to the newspaper's first issue in 1851.

Electronic access to letters, speeches, proclamations, and other documents issued by Presidents George Washington through William Howard Taft is available through Government Information, Microforms, and Statistical Services, on the second floor of the Main Library in 250B.