Read more
William E. "Bill" Bartelt is a Lincoln historian and author of
There I Grew Up: Remembering Abraham Lincoln's Indiana Youth and other books. For many years Bartelt worked as a ranger and historian at the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial. He is a board member of the Abraham Lincoln Association and the Indiana Historical Society, and received the Indiana Historical Society's "Hoosier Historian" award in 2003.
Joshua A. Claybourn is an attorney and author or editor of several books, including
Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative. A widely published commentator on legal, political, and historical topics, Claybourn has also appeared as a guest on CNN, MSNBC, and NHK. He is a board member of the Abraham Lincoln Association.
List of contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Works from Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry
Part 1: Lincoln's Hoosier Influences
1. Lincoln's Boyhood Days in Indiana / Roscoe Kiper
2. Lincoln's Environment in Indiana / Roscoe Kiper
3. Lincoln in Indiana / William Fortune
Part 2: Lincoln's Neighbors and Influences
4. Lincoln's Indiana Neighbors / Bess V. Ehrmann
5. Life of James Gentry Jr. / J. Helen Rhoades
6. The Grigsbys / Calder (Bess) Ehrmann
7. More Lincoln Memories / Nancy Grigsby Inco
8. Biographical Sketch of Josiah and Elizabeth (Anderson) Crawford / Will Adams
9. Daniel Grass / Laura Mercy Wright
10. The Athe Meeks Sr. Tragedy / Aaron Meeks
11. The Mystery of Lincoln's Melancholy / Louis A. Warren
12. Lincoln and the Wool-Carder's Beautiful Niece / Jesse N. Weik
13. Word Pictures of Pioneer Families and Lincoln Contemporaries / Bess V. Ehrmann
14. Interviews with Spencer County Pioneers about 1895 / T. H. Masterson
15. Early Days in Spencer County / Daniel Hayford
Part 3: Lincoln's Neighborhood and Environment
16. The Lincolns and Their Home in Spencer County, Indiana / C. C. Scheeder
17. An Interview with James Atlas Jones on the Lincoln Cabin in Spencer County / George H. Honig
18. The Lincolns' Eastward Environment / Thomas James de la Hunt
19. Some Early Troy History / Sallie Bergenroth
20. Early Agriculture in Spencer County, Indiana / David H. Morgan
21. Materia Medica of Pioneer Indiana / H. C. Knapp
Part 4: Lincoln and the Law
22. Environment and Opportunities of Lincoln in Indiana / Elbert Hayford
23. John A. Brackenridge / Eldora Minor Raleigh
24. John Pitcher / Alice L. Harper Hanby
25. Judge John Pitcher / John E. Cox
Part 5: The Lincoln Inquiry
26. The Environments of Abraham Lincoln in Indiana: The Best Witnesses / Anna C. O'Flynn
27. The Lincolns in Spencer County / Ida D. Armstrong
28. The Artist's Ideal of Lincoln / George H. Honig
29. What Indiana Did for Lincoln / Bess V. Ehrmann
30. Correspondence Between Lincoln Historians and This Society / John H. Iglehart
Lincoln and Southwestern Indiana Chronology
Index
About the author
William E. "Bill" Bartelt is a Lincoln historian and author of
There I Grew Up: Remembering Abraham Lincoln's Indiana Youth and other books. For many years Bartelt worked as a ranger and historian at the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial. He is a board member of the Abraham Lincoln Association and the Indiana Historical Society, and received the Indiana Historical Society's "Hoosier Historian" award in 2003.
Joshua A. Claybourn is an attorney and author or editor of several books, including
Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative. A widely published commentator on legal, political, and historical topics, Claybourn has also appeared as a guest on CNN, MSNBC, and NHK. He is a board member of the Abraham Lincoln Association.
Summary
Abe's Youth offers indispensable reading for anyone hoping to learn about Lincoln's early life.
