Primary Source Learning About Lincoln
We all can learn a lot from Abraham Lincoln. Below you will find links to primary source activities, lessons, and projects from the Library of Congress and TPS Consortium members.
Abraham Lincoln: Rise to National Prominence primary source set and teacher’s guide
Lincoln’s Life
- Abraham Lincoln & Me Activity Book
- Gettysburg Address Image Sequencing
- Monumental Men
- Perspectives in Civil War Song Sheets
- Presidential Portraits
Lincoln’s Death
- Guided Primary Source Analysis: Theory. Practice. Effect
- Learning from the Source: Putting Loss into Words
- Learning from the Source: Mourning Lincoln & the Art of Tribute
- Lincoln’s Assassination Ford’s Theatre
- Lincoln’s Pockets professional development activity that also works with students
- Primary Source Starter: Lincoln’s assassination from a friend’s diary
- Putting Loss into Words
- Teaching Now: Using Primary Sources to Create a Lincoln Assassination Newscast
Collection Connections
Letters to Lincoln Transcription Project
Teaching with the Library of Congress blog posts
- Dedicated to the Great Task: Remembering and Studying Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
- Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln: The Writer and Abolitionist Remembers the President in Library of Congress Primary Sources
- Point of View in Statues of Abraham Lincoln: Three Looks at a Leader – A Primary Source Starter
Lincoln primary source collections
- Presidential Spotlight: Abraham Lincoln
- Lincoln-Douglas debates
- Lincoln’s Inauguration
- Homestead Act
- Abolition in D.C.
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Lincoln Shot
- O Captain! My Captain!
- Mary Todd Lincoln
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