I. The Wild West
II. The Lincoln Family
III. Early Years
IV. In Indiana
V. Second Journey to New Orleans
VI. Desultory Employments
VII. Entering Politics
VIII. Entering the Law
IX. On the Circuit
X. Social Life and Marriage
XI. The Encroachments of Slavery
XII. The Awakening of the Lion
XIII. Two Things that Lincoln Missed
XIV. Birth of the Republican Party
XV. The Battle of the Giants
XVI. Growing Audacity of the Slave Power
XVII. The Backwoodsman at the Center of Eastern Culture
XVIII. The Nomination of 1860
XIX. The Election
XX. Four Long Months
XXI. Journey to Washington
XXII. The Inauguration
XXIII. Lincoln his Own President
XXIV. Fort Sumter
XXV. The Outburst of Patriotism
XXVI. The War Here to Stay
XXVII. The Darkest Hour of the War
XXVIII. Lincoln and Fremont
XXIX. Lincoln and McClellan
XXX. Lincoln and Greeley
XXXI. Emancipation
XXXII. Discouragements
XXXIII. New Hopes
XXXIV. Lincoln and Grant
XXXV. Literary Characteristics
XXXVI. Second Election
XXXVII. Close of the War
XXXVIII. Assassination
XXXIX. A Nation's Sorrow
XL. The Measure of a Man
XLI. Testimonies