Abraham Lincoln's 199th Birthday

Today is Lincoln's 199th birthday. C-Span and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission are launching a two-year celebration of the life of the 16th president that will include a series of programming specials called Lincoln: 200 Years." For more information on programming and Lincoln events, go to C-Span and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

Harford County Public Library has many biographies of President Lincoln, and many works on the Civil War, the Gettysburg Address, Slavery and Emancipation, and the Assassination of Lincoln.

For fiction about Lincoln and other United States Presidents, click on the booklist, "Presidents - Historical and Biographical Fiction" prepared by HCPL Librarians on the Recommended Reading page of Readers Place.