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 ...

Phillip Stone, a Harrisonburg lawyer who has served as president of Bridgewater College and Sweet Briar College, holds an ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Abraham Lincoln embodied everything that’s great ... Lincoln and Mary having this fractured marriage. People are fine writing ...

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 ...