A look into the group instrumental to electing Abraham Lincoln president in 1860. The Wide Awakes were a Republican para-military organization distinguished from other political clubs of the 19th ...

How Abraham Lincoln Invented American Democracy Season 2024 Episode 3 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions| CC Steven B. Smith answers the question dating back to Lincoln, what is democracy?

In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a ...

Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a log cabin in the wilderness of Kentucky on February 12, 1809, Lincoln moved to Indiana with his family when he was seven.

In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham Lincoln in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of who Lincoln was. They investigate primary source documents in order to ...

Join the WSIU team on location at the Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Illinois. This program reviews some of the major exhibits and includes a discussion with Christina Shutt ...

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...

Mychal the librarian has teamed with California's Live Beyond Campaign to explain how books can help young people navigate mental health obstacles.

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is frequently invoked by Trump.