In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham ... Lincoln trampling the constitution and armed with two swords; Jefferson Davis or Uncle Sam lies beaten in the ...

The election of Lincoln prompted the South to begin to withdraw, or secede, from the Union. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln delivered a final plea to the South to remain, but to no avail ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...