Lincoln Editor

              July - September 2003 Volume 3   Number 3
PROJECT WELCOMES A NEW GRADUATE ASSISTANT
ROLLING OUT THE LINCOLN LOG
This fall, a second graduate assistant joined the project
to  maintain  progress  on  the  Papers  of Abraham
Lincoln. Marilyn Mueller is a graduate student in history
at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS), where
she is in her second semester.
She  earned  her  Bachelor s
degree  in  history  from  UIS,
graduating magna cum laude in
2002.  Mueller  has  been  the
recipient  of  several
scholarships, including the UIS
Award  of  Excellence
Scholarship,  recognizing  the
campus s top student in the humanities.
Mueller is a Springfield native, who spent the
first eighteen years of her professional life in the travel
industry.  She  is  currently  interested  in  the  history  of
music, African American northern migration, the jazz
age, and civil rights. She is also interested in Abraham
Lincoln and is currently working on a historiographic
essay on Lincoln and civil rights.
Mueller  will  be  a  great  asset  to  the  project s
efforts  to  continue  the  search  for  Lincoln  documents.
She has prepared a mailing list of manuscript dealers
and collectors for an upcoming mail survey. She will
prepare the mailing and track and follow-up on responses.
The  Papers  of Abraham  Lincoln  is  pleased  to
announce the electronic publication of The Lincoln
Log: A Daily Chronology of the Life of Abraham Lincoln.
This exciting resource is available through the Reference
portion  of  the  project s  website.  The  Lincoln  Log
incorporates all of the material published in 1960 by the
Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission as Lincoln Day
by Day: A Chronology, 1809-1865, but this resource is
and will become much more.
Staff  members  worked  with  the
Scholarly Technology  Group  at  Brown
University to design a powerful interface for
searching and browsing thousands of daily entries from
Abraham Lincoln s life. Users of The Lincoln Log can
search every word in the text, or they can limit the search
to a specific range of dates, the day
of the week, or where Lincoln was
at the time. Users can also browse
by  year  (with  visual  indications  of  which  days  have
entries), by month, or by day. Finally, users can also find
out what Lincoln was doing on today s date throughout
his  life.  In  addition  to  the  text  of
Lincoln s activities, each daily entry
includes the date, day of the week,
Lincoln s  geographic  location,  and  bibliographical
references for the entry.
The  staff  of  the  Papers  of Abraham
Lincoln will continue to update and correct the
entries as new materials are discovered, and
there are plans for several other enhancements
as well. Users can preview the  Search by Person  feature
by  selecting  either  Mary Todd  Lincoln  or  Edwin  M.
Stanton. When a user searches for Edwin M. Stanton,
for example, the search returns all references to Stanton,
See LINCOLN LOG (on page 3)