The editors have tagged or designated various special topics for these 150 most teachable Lincoln documents in ways that they hope will prove especially helpful for classroom teachers and students. Click on the links below to see selected documents for each of these tags or special topics. You can also find the list of tags for each document at the bottom of each document page. Those tags are also clickable.
Document Types
- Executive Orders
- Interviews
- Letters
- Notes and Fragments
- Presidential Messages
- Private documents
- Speeches
- Telegrams
Recommendations
General Subjects
- Black Soldiers
- Border States
- Civil Liberties
- Conscription
- Diplomacy
- Dred Scott Case
- Election of 1848
- Election of 1854
- Election of 1856
- Election of 1860
- Election of 1864
- Emancipation
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- Mexican War
- Military Affairs (Civil War tactics & strategy)
- Partisanship (From Whig to Republican)
- Nationalism
- Race
- Reconstruction
- Secession
- Slavery
- Temperance
- Thirteenth Amendment
- War Powers
Miscellaneous
- Autobiographical
- Lincoln’s Education
- Lincoln on the Environment
- Lincoln’s Family
- Examples of Borrowed Phrasing (or use of ghostwriters)
- Efforts at Consolation
- Examples of Notable Revisions
- Fundraising
- References to the Founders
- Inventions
- Legal Career
- Literary Efforts
- Use of Populism
- Religious beliefs
- Romantic efforts
- Lincoln on violence
Leadership
Personality Traits
- Ambition
- Anger
- Determination
- Friendship
- Humility
- Humor
- Manipulation (or small deceptions)
- Melancholy
- Pragmatism