Lincoln Handouts

Matthew Pinsker prepared these handouts for use in teacher training workshops during the Lincoln Bicentennial. They are available for free distribution within classrooms or for any non-commercial, educational programming and may be adapted as needed though proper credit should be provided.

	The 1860 Election
	First Draft of Emancipation (July 22, 1862)
	Present at the Creation? Investigating the Moment When Lincoln Settled on Emancipation
	John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Question of Legitimate Violence
	“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.”
	The Merryman Moment and Lincoln’s View on the Chronology of Powers
	Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home
	Abraham Lincoln and the Doctrine of Electoral Necessity
	Lincoln’s Autobiographical Sketch (1859)
	Abraham Lincoln and the Use of Misdirection Public Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
	The Other Lincoln – Douglass Debates
	Soldiers’ Home National Cemetery