Project News

July 1, 2008: Searching primary resources in Lincoln/Net's text database is now a little easier thanks to a recent design overhaul. The new streamlined interface allows users to simultaneously do a full-text search, along with specific bibliographic searches (author, title, etc.) More complex searches can be done by clicking on the "More Bibliographic Search Fields" button at the bottom of the form. Additionally, as you fill in your search terms, you will be able to view your search parameters on the right side of the form under "Your query."

May 29, 2008: New additions have been made to the Lincoln/Net database. There are now a total of 3547 documents available. Significant additions have also been made to our companion sites Prairie Fire, Illinois During the Civil War, and Illinois During the Gilded Age.

Additionally, we have made some changes to how search results are displayed in our database. Each document now has a persistent link, which will make citing our resources easier and more consistent.

We have also recently added a full site search feature. By clicking the "All" button on the top toolbar, users can now search across all of our primary sources and interpretive materials on Lincoln/Net in a single search.

May 1, 2008: The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College has awarded Lincoln/Net the e-Lincoln Prize for contributions to the fields of Lincoln Studies and American History in an electronic format. Please see the press release from either Gettysburg College or Northern Illinois University for more information.

August 17, 2007: New additions have been made to the Lincoln/Net database. There are now a total of 3117 documents available.

Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln" edited by Rodney O. Davis and Douglas L. Wilson, is now available on the Lincoln/Net site in a searchable format, courtesy of the University of Illinois Press.

Please check our text database for our other sites as well, as significant additions have been made there: http://dig.lib.niu.edu/.

April 25, 2007: New additions have been made to the Lincoln/Net database. There are now a total of 3000 documents available. Please check our text database for our other sites as well, as significant additions have been made there: http://dig.lib.niu.edu/.

January 11, 2007: New additions have been made to the Lincoln/Net database. There are now a total of 2918 documents available. Please check our text database for our other sites as well, as significant additions have been made there: http://dig.lib.niu.edu/.

Summer, 2005: Lincoln/Net held two teacher's workshops in the summer of 2005 in Springfield, Illinois, on The Lincoln Home, Society, and Politics in Antebellum America, 1840-1861, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanitites Landmarks of American History Workshops for Schoolteachers.

January 7, 2005: New additions have been made to the Lincoln/Net database. There are now a total of 2905 documents available. Please check our text databases for our other sites as well, as significant additions have been made there: http://dig.lib.niu.edu/.

April 23, 2004: The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Lincoln/Net a curriculum grant (to begin June 1, 2004) in order to provide teachers with tools to assist in utilizing Lincoln/Net resources in the classroom.

June 26, 2003: New features have been added to the Historical Themes and Lincoln's Biography portions of the site.

Short biographical sketches of persons important to the period, or who are good representations of thematic concepts are now available under Lincoln's Biography — About Lincoln — Lincoln's Contemporaries. There are also links to the short biographies wherever their names are mentioned in the interpretive materials (Historical Themes and Lincoln's Biography sections.)

For the various Historical Themes and Lincoln's Biography periods, a new section called "Selected Primary Sources" highlights important or representative primary source documents that are available on Lincoln/Net.

December 17, 2002: Significant additions have been made to the Lincoln/Net database. There are now a total of 2305 documents available on the Lincoln/Net database.

A new feature called the Image Gallery is now available which illustrates some of our more thematically-representative images. Under each Historical Theme and under About Lincoln's Biography, there is a link to an Image Gallery which has 9 images and informational text about each image. These are just a small portion of the images available, but they illuminate the issues of this period.

Significant additions have also been made to our sister sites, so please check out the primary text databases for Prairie Fire, Illinois During the Civil War, Illinois During the Gilded Age, and Taming the Wild Prairie: A History of DeKalb County, Illinois, 1837-1910.

Lincoln/Net in the News
	Lincoln/Net was recently reviewed on Intute, an educational website that helps scholars find the best web resources for research and study.
	The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College has awarded Lincoln/Net the e-Lincoln Prize for contributions to the fields of Lincoln Studies and American History in an electronic format!. Northern Illinois University - News Release
	The National Endowment for the Humanities features Lincoln/Net on its Web site "Edsitement: The Best of the Humanities on the Web"
	Lincoln/Net is listed on Best of History Websites with a rating of 4 stars.
	In the Monday, February 19th, 2002 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jessica Ludwig featured Lincoln/Net, "a web site devoted to Lincoln's early years (that) offers texts, songs and more."
	The HistoryChannel.com selected Lincoln/Net as one of its recommended World Wide Web sites.
	HistoryOnline selected Lincoln/Net as one of its recommended World Wide Web sites.
	On Monday, February 12, 2002, Chicago Sun-Times contributor Susan Dodge featured Lincoln/Net, "a virtual treasure trove of Lincoln documents and images."
	MyReportLinks selected Lincoln/Net as one of its recommended World Wide Web sites.
	Located at the University of Bristol (UK), the Social Science Information Gateway website selected Lincoln/Net as a "trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information."
	In the March 2003 issue of The Journal of American History published by the Organization of American Historians, reviewer Anne Sarah Rubin of the University of Maryland described Lincoln/Net as a "model historical Web site" where the "richness of its content makes this site a valuable resource for students of Lincoln himself and antebellum America more generally."
	Recently, Lincoln/Net was reviewed and added to the Humbul Humanities Hub, a site hosted by the University of Oxford, and the "UK higher and further education's first choice for accessing online humanities resources."
	The French Association for American Studies lists Lincoln/Net on their collected list of notable 19th century history web sites.