Ida Tarbell Lincoln Papers Online

[Rob Wick]

Gene,

I'm still in the research stage, although I've been working on a narrative outline. I had hoped to get a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend grant to help me cover research costs, but that fell through, in spite of some solid support from Ed Steers and another historian named R.B. Bernstein, who wrote The Founding Fathers Reconsidered and a short biography of Thomas Jefferson.

I've been collecting Sandburg books over the past couple of years and I've already made one trip to the University of Illinois where Sandburg's papers are located. I need to spend another week there and then try to figure out how the heck I'm going to pay for researchers in various parts of the country to get other things I need.

With Tarbell's papers online, that removes a major expense and headache.

Best
Rob