In the second Learning Activity, students will discuss different reasons for writing letters and review some of Abraham Lincoln’s letters. In the Culminating Activity, students will write their ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered one of the United ... and was instrumental in the writing and passage of the 13 th Amendment of the Constitution, which outlawed slavery in America.

What did Abraham Lincoln sound like ... Sam Waterston reading Lincoln’s writing in a dignified baritone in Ken Burns’ classic documentary The Civil War is one example. Daniel Day-Lewis ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

Then Mr. Burlingame supposes that Mary seduced her Abraham by having sex ... not to mention making the shrewd Lincoln look like a fool. This surely is an untended consequence of a tendentious ...

The Abraham Lincoln statue of the nation’s 16th president is in the 1700 block of N. Stockton Drive in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. Vandals defaced the monument by writing ...