eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Abraham Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade's Abraham Lincoln has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
Unit Plan
The History Place

The History Place: Timeline Photos Gettysburg

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from The History Place provides a very extensive timeline of the life and work of Abraham Lincoln. Throughout the timeline are photos that can be enlarged, links to many speeches and papers, and other historical information....
Primary
University of Michigan

Abraham Lincoln Association: The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Humanities Text Initiative allows you to search the complete works of Abraham Lincoln by document title or phrase/keyword search.
Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: Us History: Election of 1860: Lincoln Elected

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and the divisions between North and South that resulted. Shortly after the election, a group of Southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. The animosity between...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 by Abraham Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of volume one of "The Writings of Abraham Lincoln". This anthology combines speeches, writings, and letters by Abraham Lincoln, as well as interpretative essays by historians.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the full text of volume two of "The Writings of Abraham Lincoln". This anthology combines speeches, resolutions, and letters written by Abraham Lincoln.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the full text of volume two of "The Writings of Abraham Lincoln". This anthology combines speeches and the first three Lincoln-Douglas debates.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the full text of volume four of "The Writings of Abraham Lincoln". This anthology focuses on debates four through seven of the infamous Lincoln-Douglas debates.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 5

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the full text of volume five of "The Writings of Abraham Lincoln". This anthology combines speeches and letters written by Abraham Lincoln during the beginning years of the Civil War.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 6

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the full text of volume six of "The Writings of Abraham Lincoln". This anthology combines telegrams, writings, and messages to Congress by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
Interactive
Other

Berwick Academy: The Life of Abraham Lincoln

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Produced by students, this illustrated history and timeline reveals the life and career of the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.
Handout
Other

Chicago Tribune: Presidential Portraits: Abraham Lincoln [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
One-page illustrated profile of Abraham Lincoln itemizes select biographical facts and key events of his presidency.
Primary
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: bartleby.com: Presidential Inaugural Address: Abraham Lincoln: 2nd

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the text of Lincoln's second inaugural address given on March 4, 1865.
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: American Presidency: Abraham Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biographical sketch of America's sixteenth president includes background information on the era in which he served and linked-to objects from the Smithsonian's collections that help define the man and his presidency.
Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: The Mask of Lincoln: John Wilkes Booth

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Portrait Gallery publishes a captioned portrait of John Wilkes Booth in which Booth's animosity toward Lincoln and the events of Lincoln's assassination are recounted.
Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: The Mask of Lincoln: Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the often-difficult relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, from this artist portrait of the couple and attendant caption.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: "O Captain! My Captain!"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Library of Congress provides comments on a poem written by Walt Whitman at the death of Abraham Lincoln. Image of the manuscript available at this Library of Congress site.
Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Issue

For Students 9th - 10th
Special series of stamps recognizing the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth.
Website
Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Document Library: Lincoln: Cooper Institute Address

For Students 9th - 10th
Full-text transcript of Abraham Lincoln's address to the Cooper Union Institute, delivered in February 1860 and largely credited as the speech that won Lincoln the presidency.
Website
Siteseen

Siteseen: Civil Conflict: Cost of the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the cost of the Civil War which is estimated at 15.5 billion dollars. Provides a chart detailing the cost to the North and the South with statistics and facts about the population, the number of soldiers, and the number of...
Website
Siteseen

Siteseen: Civil Conflict: Battle of the Wilderness

For Students 9th - 10th
Summarizes events of the Battle of the Wilderness, a major battle fought in Virginia in 1864 during the Civil War.
Website
Siteseen

Siteseen: Civil Conflict: Siege of Petersburg

For Students 9th - 10th
Summarizes events of the Siege of Petersburg which took place from 1864-1865 during the Civil War.
Website
Siteseen

Siteseen: Civil Conflict: Union Blockade

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what the Union Blockade was, also known as the Anaconda Plan. Describes its purpose, how it began, its location, how the North built up its navy, how the Confederacy fought back against the Union Blockade, the positions taken by...
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Siteseen

Siteseen: Civil Conflict: Battle of Mobile Bay

For Students 9th - 10th
Summarizes events of the Battle of Mobile Bay which took place in 1864 during the Civil War.