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GO TO “LINCOLN” MOVIE TEACHER’S GUIDE INTRODUCTION Early in the “Lincoln” movie (Scene 7), President Lincoln provides a lengthy defense of his wartime … Continue reading
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By Matthew Pinsker GO TO “LINCOLN” MOVIE TEACHER’S GUIDE Introduction A film like Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (2012) is considered a work of fiction even … Continue reading
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By Matthew Pinsker GO TO “LINCOLN” MOVIE TEACHER’S GUIDE The public reaction from most historians to the “Lincoln” movie has … Continue reading
Few Hollywood films have ever been as well suited for discussion within American history classrooms as Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (2012). The movie tackles some of the biggest issues in the study of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln’s legacy but … Continue reading
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GO TO “LINCOLN” MOVIE TEACHER’S GUIDE Fictional characters are in italics. Actors names are in parentheses. Links for more information go to the House Divided research engine. The President and First Family … Continue reading
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GO TO “LINCOLN” MOVIE TEACHER’S GUIDE Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (2012) is a two-and-a-half hour film that zeroes in on a defining moment from near the end of the Civil War –January 1865 and the debate over the proposed amendment to … Continue reading
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James Oakes’s Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (Norton, 2012) profoundly challenges the way most American history textbooks and classrooms have been presenting the story of Civil War emancipation. The nearly 500-page book contains a host of … Continue reading
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James Rumley was a 50-year-old government clerk living in Beaufort, North Carolina when President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Rumley, a single man, had owned two slaves at the outset of conflict and had spent most of the previous year … Continue reading
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Prince Rivers was born enslaved in South Carolina but became famous as a free man and soldier on January 1, 1863. You can read more about his role in celebrating Emancipation Day in Beaufort, South Carolina as color sergeant in … Continue reading
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During Christmas week in 1936, a ninety-two-year-old woman from Washington, D.C. created a local incident that drew the attention of the Washington Post. The woman had walked a few miles out to the Soldiers’ Home, a federal retirement community for … Continue reading
