As I prepare to spend a few days with fellow Lincolnites at the Lincoln Forum in Gettysburg, this is a good time to provide a few updates on Lincoln in New England: In Search of His Forgotten Tours. A lot has been happening.
Way back in September I did a big reveal of the cover design for the book. Beyond the judicially and literarily required picture of Lincoln, the cover is a bright graded blue with a New England country road at the bottom. It is, after all, a ride-along style book that follows my own personal journeys to Lincoln’s speech sites, augmented by insights from other historians and locals I spoke to and a ton of history examining the issues that droves Lincoln’s two forgotten journeys.
Around that time, I was also working through final copyedits and proofs, finalizing the selection of 52 photos that highlight the pages of the book, and requesting back cover blurbs from a range of Abraham Lincoln and New England experts. I documented the slow rollout process in a previous post. Now there is even more big news, beginning with:
The book has gone to the printer!
That means we’re getting to the final stages of the publication process. From here on out the book will be solidified in ink with no way to do further editing unless it goes on to multiple printings, foreign language translations, and special editions (which has happened for my previous books).
Release date is set for March 3, 2026!
I also now have the full cover design, which is not only the front cover but the spine and the back cover. The back cover design includes several shortened versions of the blurbs that I received from several Lincoln experts touting the book. Their full statements – including two others that didn’t fit on the cover – will go onto the various bookseller websites (see Globe Pequot’s publisher site and choose your favorite bookseller). I’ll also post them here and elsewhere as we get closer to the publication date. Here’s the back cover:
Meanwhile, I’ve been busy writing articles for various venues, a few of which have already shown up in print and others popping up over the next six months or more.
I’m also scheduling book talks throughout New England, the Washington, DC area, and later, the Land of Lincoln (aka, Illinois). Combined with additional in-person and virtual presentations, interviews, book signings, and podcasts, I should be busy promoting the book in the spring. Since it’s only November, there is still plenty of space to fill in beginning around March 3, 2026, when the book is officially released. Send me an email to get us started!
Much more to come. Stay tuned! And follow me on Facebook, Instagram, Goodreads, and LinkedIn.
Coming in March 2026: Lincoln in New England: In Search of His Forgotten Tours
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David J. Kent is Immediate Past President of the Lincoln Group of DC and the author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln’s Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America and Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America.
His previous books include Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity and Edison: The Inventor of the Modern World and two specialty e-books: Nikola Tesla: Renewable Energy Ahead of Its Time and Abraham Lincoln and Nikola Tesla: Connected by Fate.
