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Abraham Lincoln 14. "Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can ...
WGLT talks to Raymond McKoski, the author of a new biography of David Davis, whose mansion and historic site in Bloomington attracts thousands of visitors visit each year. "David Davis: Abraham ...
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 ...
Presidents Day offers a valuable opportunity to revisit Abraham Lincoln’s leadership lessons ... approach with his December 1863 “10 Percent Plan” to facilitate reconstruction with the ...
Abraham Lincoln lived in New Salem from 1831 to 1837 before moving to Springfield. New Salem was largely abandoned by 1840, but reconstructed in the 1930s. Nearly 360,000 people visited New Salem ...
An answer is offered by Abraham Lincoln. One hundred sixty years ago ... He asked Douglass to design a plan to convey as many enslaved Black people as possible from the South to the North before ...
Items on Abraham Lincoln’s body the night he was assassinated, his earliest known handwriting and other extraordinary relics from his life are being auctioned this week in a sale that drew ...