Articles

  • “A New Lincoln Discovery: Family of Lincoln Enthusiast Finds Unprecedented Autograph Collection and Lincoln-Related Items,” Lincoln Lore No. 1934 (Summer 2022): 14-19.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • “Give While You Live: The Generosity of Julius Rosenwald,” pamphlet for Lincoln Home National Historic Site and the Springfield Rosenwald Initiative, summer 2019.

 

 

 

  • 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).

 

 

  • “A Medal for Mrs. Lincoln,” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 109, no. 2 (Spring 2011)

 

 

  • “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 SixAmerican Heritage, 59, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 20-24.

 

 

 

  • “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.

 

 

  • “Mary Todd Lincoln’s Lost Letters from the Asylum,” Civil War Times (October 2007)

 

 

  • “Aftermath of an Assassination: Recently Discovered Letters from the Days After Lincoln’s Murder,” American History 41, no. 2 (June 2006): 24-30, 74.

 

 

  • “A Very Dreadful Night: Robert Todd Lincoln and his Father’s Assassination,” Lincoln Forum Bulletin 18 (November 2005): 10-11.

 

 

 

 

  • “The Poetic Lincoln,” Lincoln Herald 101, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 4-12.