American Presidency Project
American Presidency Project: State of the Union Addresses and Messages
This site compiles all of the State of the Union addresses and messages by all the presidents in U.S. history (except William Henry Harrison and James A. Garfield).
Curated OER
National Park Service: Antietam: The Emancipation Proclamation (Full Text)
Read a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln in September, 1862, and put into law on January 1, 1863.
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: Presidents' Day Lessons
Presidents' Day lessons for Grades 10-12 on the constitutional legacies of George Washington, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan, and how they shaped the history and Constitution of our nation. Each lesson plan was written...
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Trial of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators
Follows the events leading to the trial of those accused of conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Historical documents and primary sources describe the events.
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: President's Day
Find out about the achievements of President George Washington and President Abraham Lincoln. Includes links to President's day activities and information, plus resources for each president and a list of literature relating to each.
Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
Northern Illinois University provides audio, visual, and text documents about Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years. You can search historical themes that relate to Lincoln and a biography of Lincoln. The site offers both primary and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Looking for Lincoln: Looking for Lincoln During the Civil War
Using interactives and videos, this lesson explores the unique challenges Lincoln faced during the five years of bloody civil war which made him America's greatest but most controversial wartime leader.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Looking for Lincoln Throughout His Life
In this two-part lesson, students gather facts about Lincoln through a variety of hands-on activities. They will tell a story about their own lives by selecting classroom objects then create a timeline of Lincoln's life and their own.
University of California
History Project: Lincoln and the Outbreak of War, 1861
Using primary source documents, this middle school lesson plan focuses on Lincoln's role in the outbreak of the Civil War, specifically his actions as President during his first six weeks in office.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Abraham Lincoln: The Face of a War
A detailed lesson plan of Abraham Lincoln to celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth. In a PDF file, the complete lesson is provided along with visual aides needed for the lesson. Draws on photographs and masks of Lincoln's face...
US National Archives
Our Documents: Wade Davis Bill(1864)
On this site you can view an original copy of the document and and also an easy to read version of the complete text. There is also a brief summary of the history behind the bill.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: Pennsylvania Democrats
A good look at the views of the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania just prior to and during the Civil War. Read about Democratic president from Pennsylvania, James Buchanan, and his views about the importance of slavery in the national...
Henry J. Sage
Sage American History: Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
Text of Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address, March 4, 1861
Henry J. Sage
Sage American History: Emancipation Proclamation
Primary resource provides full text of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, issued January, 1863 as well as his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, issued September, 1862.
Henry J. Sage
Sage American History: Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln, March 1865
Text of President Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, delivered March, 4, 1865.
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Abraham Lincoln Online
Resource provides a list of websites that contain biographical information, places to visit, photo tours of historical places associated with Lincoln, and the text to some of Lincoln's famous speeches and writings.
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The Dirksen Congressional Center
An effective site that provides non-partisan information concerning Congress and its leaders. The website includes CongressLink, up-to-date information on the US Congress; Congress for Kids, an excellent resource for younger students on...
Other
Abraham Lincoln Online: Speeches and Writings
This site is a fabulous resource that contains dozens and dozens of Lincoln documents including letters, speeches, writings, and original documents that are contained in the Library of Congress. The site also includes Lincoln's view on...
Other
Abraham Lincoln Online
This site is a wonderful resource for everything you need on Abraham Lincoln! The site contains the text to many of his writings and speeches, many pictures, profiles and biographies, information on places associated with Lincoln, plus...
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University of Delaware: Abraham Lincoln: A Bicentennial Celebration
Commemorating Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, this exhibition provides several documents and photographs remembering the President's life. Resources cover his political career, slavery, the civil war and his assassination.
Virginia History Series
Virginia History Series: The American Civil War in Virginia [Pdf]
The state of Virginia played a pivotal role in the Civil War. Trace the war from the beginning to the battles in Virginia, and to Lee's surrender through this comprehensive slideshow. Included are charts, maps and actual photography from...
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Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Civil War Diplomacy
An article by noted historian, Kinley Brauer, discusses the role of foreign policy for both the North and the South in the Civil War. An interesting, and often forgotten, aspect of the war.
Brown University
Brown University Library: Lincolniana at Brown: Lincoln Broadsides
Showcases an extensive collection of advertisements, posters, maps, pamphlets, and other miscellaneous objects that document President Abraham Lincoln's place in American culture.
Brown University
Brown University Library: Lincolniana at Brown
Digital archive of newspapers, objects, graphics, letters, and similar resources that document Lincoln's life and legacy. Browse the collection to find newspaper reports of Lincoln's assassination, badges of mourning worn at his funeral,...