After the video, have students discuss what they already know about Abraham Lincoln and what they learned in the video. Create a mind-map on the white board ... beaten in the background Excerpt ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln ... his time in the White House, Lincoln's ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never ... call from James Wheeler of Des Moines whose father was Lincoln's White House gardener [Thomas G. Wheeler]. James Wheeler knew ...

When Abraham ... Lincoln wanted to address what had happened and why, and find some meaning in the tragedy that was still unfolding. “Lincoln wrote for all time,” Ronald C. White Jr. wrote ...