When Lincoln left Illinois and headed east for his inauguration, he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad station that he confronted challenges equal only to those that had faced the nation’s ...

IT is yet too early to look for a full and satisfactory biography of one who in the pages of American history will occupy a place second only to Washington, both for services rendered to his ...

Wayne C. "Doc" Temple, the indefatigable Abraham Lincoln scholar who wrote more than 20 books and hundreds of articles and ...

The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man from ...

Lincoln’s original patent model was acquired by the Smithsonian in 1908. This replica was built by the Smithsonian in 1978 for long-term display to preserve the fragile original. NMAH/SI Upon ...

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 ...

Keywords biographies, autobiographies, Plutarch, Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Henry David Thoreau, Abraham Lincoln, Michelangelo, George Papash, Babe Ruth, literature ...