Join Lincoln Presidential Foundation, in partnership with SIU Press, on Thursday, May 7, 2026, for an exciting panel discussion featuring contributors to the Concise Lincoln Library series by SIU Press, including series editor Sylvia Rodrigue, and scholars John Rodrigue, Edna Medford and Lucas Morel.
The series brings together expert scholars to elaborate on the life, times, and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Through short, focused books, each focusing on a different area of Lincoln’s life and career, the Concise Lincoln Library offers fresh perspectives on well-known topics, investigates previously overlooked subjects, and explores in greater depth topics that have not yet received book-length treatment.
Each book allows readers to gain basic knowledge of a Lincoln-related topic quickly. In an effort to make new scholarship accessible to the broadest possible audience, the books include minimal endnotes and historiography. They are written in a style easy for anyone to understand. In-depth yet accessible, the Concise Lincoln Library appeals to both the novice and the Lincoln scholar.
“Southern Illinois University Press’s Concise Lincoln Library series is a unique contribution to the study of Abraham Lincoln and his impact on American History. These pithy insights into important topics of Lincoln's life and times, each written by a noted Lincoln scholar, has allowed the general public—young as well as old—to access and understand perhaps the most important era in American's past...”—Daniel R. Weinberg, Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc.
Southern Illinois University Press received the Wendy Allen Award for Institutional Excellence from the Lincoln Forum in honor of the Concise Lincoln Library. Series co-editors Richard W. Etulain, Sara Vaughn Gabbard, and Sylvia Frank Rodrigue received the Harold Holzer Lincoln Forum Book Prize for their work in editing the Concise Lincoln Library.
The Concise Lincoln Library was made possible in part through generous donations by the Leland E. and LaRita R. Boren Trust and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation.
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