- Jason has written dozens of blog posts on his Facebook page, “Jason Emerson, Historian.” These posts include new information about the Lincoln family from Abraham all the way down to his great-grandchildren. Be sure to check them out!
- “This Man was the Only Eyewitness to the Deaths of Both Lincoln and Garfield: Almon F. Rockwell’s newly resurfaced journals, excerpted exclusively here, offer an incisive account of the assassinated presidents’ final moments,” Smithsonian Magazine (online), posted January 7, 2022.
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“This Civil War–Era Eagle Sculpture Was Made Out of Abraham Lincoln’s Hair,” Smithsonian Magazine (online), posted Sept. 23, 2021.
- “How and Why Did Robert Lincoln Decide to go to Harvard? Newly Revealed Letter Gives the Answer,” Lincoln Lore, No. 1928 (Winter 2020): 11-13.
- “Robert Lincoln Writes About the End of His Mother’s Estrangement,” Lincoln Lore, No. 1927 (Fall 2020): 11-13.
- “Interview with Jason Emerson Regarding his New Book, Mary Lincoln for the Ages,” Lincoln Lore, No. 1923 (Fall 2019): 16-21.
- “Q&A with Jason Emerson: Mary Lincoln for the Ages,” The History Author Show, www.historyauthor.com, posted August 5, 2019.
- “Give While You Live: The Generosity of Julius Rosenwald,” pamphlet for Lincoln Home National Historic Site and the Springfield Rosenwald Initiative, summer 2019.
- “Plymouth Freeman: American Revolution Veteran, Former Slave,” posted on New York Almanac (www.newyorkalmanack.com), February 24, 2019
- “As Willie Lay Dying, Mary Lincoln Gets Pilloried in a Poem,” For the People: A Newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association 17, no. 2 (Summer 2015): 7-9.
- “A New American Anthem,” in Gettysburg Replies: The World Responds to Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, edited by Carla Knorowski (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation 2015).
- “Lincoln Treasures,” in Treasures of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, edited by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein (State of Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2014).
- “Lincoln Considered: Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln in the new Lincoln movie,” Civil War Monitor (Spring 2013).
- “The Rise and Fall of the Union Balloon Corps,” Civil War Times (December 2012).
- “A Medal for Mrs. Lincoln,” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 109, no. 2 (Spring 2011)
- “Mary Todd Lincoln,” Times Topics page, New York Times.
- “Mary Lincoln: An Annotated Bibliography Supplement,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 104 no. 3 (Fall 2011): 238-249.
- “Lincoln’s Son Loved the Links: Robert Todd Lincoln and the Game of Golf,” Lincoln Forum Bulletin 28 (Fall 2010): 8-9, 12.
- ‘I have done my duty as I best know and Providence must take care of the rest’: Reconsidering Mary Lincoln’s Sanity and Robert Lincoln’s Motivations, Bulletin of the 68th Annual Meeting of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, April 18, 2009, Historical Bulletin Number 63.
- “Mary Lincoln: An Annotated Bibliography,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 103, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 180-235.
- “The Secret Six” American Heritage, 59, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 20-24.
- “Six of the Top Recent Books on Abraham Lincoln” American heritage (Spring 2009.
- “New Mary Lincoln Letter Found” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101, no. 3-4 (March 2009): 315-328.
- “Abraham Lincoln as an Advocate of Transportation” Defense Transportation Journal, 65, no. 1 (February 2009): 18-20.
- “A Man of Considerable Mechanical Genius: Abraham Lincoln was the only U.S. president to hold a patent,” Invention & Technology, 23, no. 4 (Winter 2009): 10-13.
- “President Lincoln’s Patent Model,” Civil War Times, 48, no. 1 (February 2009): 57-59.
- “New Evidence From an Ignored Voice: Robert Todd Lincoln and the Authorship of the Bixby Letter,” Lincoln Herald 110, no. 2 (summer 2008): 86-116.
- “In His Father’s Shadow: Searching for the Real Robert Todd Lincoln,” Civil War Times, 47, no. 5 (October 2008): 54-57.
- “Mary Lincoln’s Madness,” (book excerpt), U.S. News & World Report, Collector’s Edition, “Secrets of the Civil War,” (2008): 52-53.
- The Madness of Mary Lincoln (book excerpt), published on the Cleveland Civil War Round Table website.
- “Mary Todd Lincoln’s Lost Letters from the Asylum,” Civil War Times (October 2007)
- The Madness of Mary Lincoln — American Heritage Magazine (July 2006)
- “Aftermath of an Assassination: Recently Discovered Letters from the Days After Lincoln’s Murder,” American History 41, no. 2 (June 2006): 24-30, 74.
- Lincoln’s Letter to the Widow Bixby — American Heritage Magazine (March 2006)
- “A Very Dreadful Night: Robert Todd Lincoln and his Father’s Assassination,” Lincoln Forum Bulletin 18 (November 2005): 10-11.
- How Booth Saved Lincoln’s Life — Civil War Times Magazine (April 2005)
- Avoiding the Gilded Prison: Robert Todd Lincoln for President — American History Magazine (December 2004)
- “Of Such is the Kingdom of Heaven”: The Mystery of ‘Little Eddie’ — Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (Autumn 1999)
- “The Poetic Lincoln,” Lincoln Herald 101, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 4-12.