The Library will be open on Presidents’ Day, Monday, February 20, 2017, a law school holiday, from 9:00am to 10:00pm.
Presidents’ Day, a federal holiday, was originally established to honor George Washington, the first president of the United States whose birthday was February 22nd. The day has come to also honor Abraham Lincoln whose birthday was February 12th.
It has become a day to honor all U.S. presidents as well. Listed below are some of the books in the Library’s collection on our first and sixteenth presidents.
George Washington:
Flexner, James, Washington, the Indispensable Man.
Freeman, Douglas Southall, George Washington, a Biography.
McDonald, Forrest, The Presidency of George Washington.
Nordham, George W., George Washington and the Law.
Abraham Lincoln:
Dirck, Brian, Lincoln the Lawyer.
Hubbard, Charles, Lincoln, the Law, and Presidential Leadership.
Matthews, Elizabeth, Lincoln as a Lawyer: an Annotated Bibliography.
McGinty, Brian, Lincoln’s Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge and the Making of America.
Thomas, Benjamin, Abraham Lincoln: a Biography.
U.S. Presidents as Lawyers:
Gross, Norman, America’s Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office.
