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Pbs Learning Media: A History of Thanksgiving

For Students 9th - 10th
This self-paced lesson provides historical context for Thanksgiving and presents students with writing-based activities.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: The Freedmen's Bureau

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection of documents, images, and readings from the era give an overview of the work done by the Freedmen's Bureau and the racial and political struggles the agency faced during the Reconstruction Era. Includes a teaching guide.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: The Mask of Lincoln: Lincoln's First Inaugural

For Students 9th - 10th
Link to a historical photograph taken during Lincoln's first inaugural address and reproduced online by the National Portrait Gallery. Accompanying caption illuminates the event's significance in American history, using Lincoln's own...
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Trent Affair

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the Trent Affair, an important diplomatic incident during the Lincoln administration that nearly sparked a war with the British.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Wade Davis Bill

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides an overview of the Wade Davis Bill that was passed by Congress in opposition to President Lincoln's lenient plan for reunification of the United States.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Freedmen's Bureau

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting facts about the Freedmen's Bureau established to help and protect emancipated slaves (freedmen)in 1865.
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Siteseen: Civil Conflict: Civil War Weapons

For Students 9th - 10th
Article contains detailed facts and information about weapons and technology used during the Civil War. There were military breakthroughs, changing the way the Civil War was fought.
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Siteseen: Civil Conflict: Battle of Chattanooga

For Students 9th - 10th
Article contains interesting facts and information about the Battle of Chattanooga, one of the major battles that were fought during the Civil War on November 23-25, 1863.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: Civil Conflict: Battle of Chickamauga

For Students 9th - 10th
Article contains interesting facts and information about the Battle of Chickamauga, one of the major battles that were fought during the Civil War on September 19-20, 1863.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: Civil Conflict: Battle of Chancellorsville

For Students 9th - 10th
Article contains interesting facts and information about the Battle of Chancellorsville, one of the major battles that were fought during the Civil War on May 1-4, 1863.
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Siteseen: Civil Conflict: Battle of Shiloh

For Students 9th - 10th
Article contains interesting facts and information about the Battle of Chancellorsville, one of the major battles that were fought during the Civil War on April 6-7, 1862.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Reconstruction Era

For Students 9th - 10th
Covers the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War from 1865-1877.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Indiana: Lincoln Boyhood Home

For Students 9th - 10th
The 16th US President Abraham Lincoln grew up here from 1816 to 1830. The site features the foundation of the original cabin, a replica farm house, the gravesite of Lincoln's mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and a memorial building.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Robert Todd Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
Robert Todd Lincoln (August 1, 1843 - July 26, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician, and the first son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Lincoln Tomb

For Students 9th - 10th
The tomb of America's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.
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Contents of Lincoln's Pockets

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site describes the articles in Abraham Lincoln's pockets the evening he was assassinated. Includes a photograph of the items. Also included are newspaper clippings about the assassination and the playbill from Ford's Theater. From...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Mary Todd Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
The wife of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States of America. She served as First Lady from 1861 until 1865.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Robert Todd Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
Son of Abraham Lincoln and U. S. Secretary of War under President Garfield's administration.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: David Davis House

For Students 9th - 10th
Home of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Abraham Lincoln campaign manager David Davis.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania: Simon Cameron House

For Students 9th - 10th
A home of Simon Cameron who had some association under Abraham Lincoln.
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Spotlight: Biography: The Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biographies of 7 significant people of Civil War-era America. Each has a portrait from the National Portrait Gallery. Biographies on: Henry Clay, Thaddeus Stevens, John Ericsson, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Julia Ward Howe, and...
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Spotlight: Biography: The Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biographies of 7 significant people of Civil War-era America. Each has a portrait from the National Portrait Gallery. Biographies on: Henry Clay, Thaddeus Stevens, John Ericsson, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Julia Ward Howe, and...
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Spotlight: Biography: The Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biographies of 7 significant people of Civil War-era America. Each has a portrait from the National Portrait Gallery. Biographies on: Henry Clay, Thaddeus Stevens, John Ericsson, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Julia Ward Howe, and...
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Curated OER

Spotlight: Biography: The Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biographies of 7 significant people of Civil War-era America. Each has a portrait from the National Portrait Gallery. Biographies on: Henry Clay, Thaddeus Stevens, John Ericsson, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Julia Ward Howe, and...

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