{"id":1294,"date":"2013-02-20T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/?page_id=1294"},"modified":"2019-10-25T13:17:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:17:55","slug":"spielberg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/spielberg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unofficial Teacher’s Guide to Spielberg’s Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SceneFew Hollywood films have ever been as well suited for discussion within American history classrooms as Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cLincoln\u201d (2012). \u00a0The movie tackles some of the biggest issues in the study of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln\u2019s legacy but does so with a tight framework that demands background and careful explanation. \u00a0On this page, we attempt to help teachers guide their students by providing a series of resources that might serve as an unofficial \u201cteacher\u2019s guide\u201d to this important film.<\/p>\n

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General Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cast of Characters (with comparison images of real figures and actors)<\/a><\/p>\n

Scene-by-scene summary (with access to Tony Kushner\u2019s script)<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Historians React to the \u201cLincoln\u201d Movie<\/a><\/p>\n

Warning: \u00a0Artists at Work (extensive analysis of artistic license in the \u201cLincoln\u201d movie)<\/a><\/p>\n

Teaching the “Lincoln” Movie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lincoln and War Powers<\/a>\u00a0(lesson plan aligned with Common Core)<\/p>\n

Related Research Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Basic Lincoln<\/a>\u00a0(records from House Divided research engine)<\/p>\n

The Total Lincoln\u00a0<\/a>(Lincoln\u2019s\u00a0Collected Works,\u00a0<\/em>Papers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Day-By-Day\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u2013all in one place)<\/p>\n

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Digital Classroom<\/a>\u00a0(includes clickable word cloud of the debates)<\/p>\n

Interactive Excerpts from Michael Burlingame\u2019s\u00a0Abraham Lincoln: A Life\u00a0<\/em>(2008)<\/a><\/p>\n

Matthew Pinsker challenges the \u201cMyth\u201d of Rivals<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(Journal Divided)
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Why is Feb. 1st \u201cNational Freedom Day\u201d?<\/a>\u00a0(Blog Divided)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Few Hollywood films have ever been as well suited for discussion within American history classrooms as Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cLincoln\u201d (2012). \u00a0The movie tackles some of the biggest issues in the study of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln\u2019s legacy but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1294\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}