Lincoln Editor

              January - March 2004 Volume 4 Number 1
THE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN DESIGNATED A PRIORITY
OF THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
ALA SUPPORTS ENHANCEMENTS OF THE LINCOLN LOG
In December 2003, noted presidential
historian Richard Norton Smith became the founding
director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
Museum. By early February, he developed an
organizational chart for the entire complex. The Papers
At their meeting on February 12, the directors of the
Abraham Lincoln Association voted to give the
Papers of Abraham Lincoln a grant of $10,000 to support
enhancements of The Lincoln Log: A Daily Chronology
of the Life of Abraham Lincoln. The grant will support
the creation of several thousand links between this online
resource and specific documents in the online version
of The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, published
by the Abraham Lincoln Association, and other
enhancements. The Lincoln Log is available through the
Reference page of the project website at
www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org/reference.htm.
The foundation for The Lincoln Log is Lincoln
Day by Day, which was published by the Lincoln
Sesquicentennial Commission in 1960, with support
from the Abraham Lincoln Association. The Papers of
Abraham Lincoln will correct, revise, and add individual
entries as new information and documents become
available.
The Abraham Lincoln Association has been a
cosponsor of the Lincoln Legal Papers since the project
began in 1985. This grant broadens the Association’s
support to the new initiative, the Papers of Abraham
Lincoln.
of Abraham Lincoln is a unit within the Presidential
Library Research and Collections Division under the
direction of Dr. Thomas F. Schwartz, the State Historian.
The division also includes the Lincoln Collection, Special
Collections, and the Research and Acquisition unit for
the library. Dr. Schwartz reports directly to
Director Smith, while continuing to serve
as State Historian for the Illinois Historic
Preservation Agency.
Reflecting on the importance of the
project to the success of the Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum,
Smith said, “I regard the Papers of Abraham
Lincoln as one of our highest institutional
priorities. It is hard to imagine a more
valuable or enduring contribution to Lincoln
studies than a new, comprehensive, scholarly
and widely accessible edition of his papers.”