Contributing Editors for this page include Brenda Klawonn and Sarah Turpin Ranking #1 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript Context: There are five versions of the Gettysburg Address in Abraham Lincoln’s handwriting. The so-called “Bliss Copy”…
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Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
Tagged with: Borrowed Phrasing, Election of 1864, Emancipation, Founders, Nationalism, Newspapers, Public, Revisions, Speech, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Savior of the Union
Posted in Savior of the Union
Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)
Ranking #2 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript Context: The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 culminated more than eighteen months of heated policy debates in Washington over how to prevent Confederates from using slavery to…
Tagged with: Borrowed Phrasing, Emancipation, Executive Order, Public, Revisions, War Powers, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Great Emancipator
Posted in Great Emancipator
Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865)
Ranking #3 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript Context: By the time Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for his second term as president on Saturday, March 4, 1865, the union was nearly restored, slavery essentially destroyed, and…
Tagged with: Nationalism, Public, Reconstruction, Religion, Secession, Slavery, Speech, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Savior of the Union
Posted in Savior of the Union
Letter to Horace Greeley (August 22, 1862)
Ranking #4 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript Context: Horace Greeley published an angry open “letter” to President Lincoln in the pages of his newspaper, the New York Tribune, on August 20, 1862. Greeley was upset…
Tagged with: Anger, Emancipation, Friendship, Letter, Manipulation, Nationalism, Newspapers, Partisanship, Pragmatism, Public, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Savior of the Union
Posted in Savior of the Union
House Divided Speech (June 16, 1858)
Ranking #6 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “If we could first know where we are….” Audio Version On This Date HD Daily Report, June 16, 1858 Image Gallery Close Readings Custom Map View…
Tagged with: Antebellum, Dred Scott Case, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Partisanship, Public, Slavery, Speech, Stephen A. Douglas, Younger Readers
Posted in Great Emancipator
Posted in Great Emancipator
Letter to Albert Hodges (April 4, 1864)
Contributing Editors for this page include Leah Miller Ranking #7 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “You asked me to put in writing….” Audio Version On This Date HD Daily Report, April 4, 1864 Image…
Tagged with: Border States, Civil Liberties, Emancipation, Letter, Newspapers, Partisanship, Public, Religion, War Powers, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Great Emancipator
Posted in Great Emancipator
Blind Memorandum (August 23, 1864)
Ranking #8 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected….” Audio Version On This Date HD Daily Report, August…
Tagged with: Management style, Manipulation, Nationalism, Notes, Partisanship, Private, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Savior of the Union
Posted in Savior of the Union
Letter to Grace Bedell (October 19, 1860)
Ranking #10 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “My dear little Miss….” Audio Version On This Date HD Daily Report, October 19, 1860 Image Gallery Close Readings Matthew Pinsker: Understanding Lincoln: Letter to Grace…
Tagged with: Antebellum, Appearance, Autobiographical, Family, Female correspondent, Letter, Private, Younger Readers
Posted in Father Abraham
Posted in Father Abraham
First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861)
Ranking #11 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “I hold, that in contemplation of universal law….” Audio Version On This Date HD Daily Report, March 4, 1861 Image Gallery Close Reading Custom Map View…
Tagged with: Antebellum, Borrowed Phrasing, Founders, Nationalism, Public, Secession, Speech, Younger Readers
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Posted in Savior of the Union
First Campaign Statement (March 9, 1832)
Ranking #18 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript Context. Abraham Lincoln was twenty-three-years-old and working as a clerk in a store in the small village of New Salem, Illinois (situated about 20 miles north of…
Tagged with: Ambition, Antebellum, Education, Environment, Humility, Letter, Newspapers, Partisanship, Public, Younger Readers
Posted in The Railsplitter
Posted in The Railsplitter
Notes for a Law Lecture (July 1, 1850)
Ranking #21 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript Context. The editors of Abraham Lincoln’s Collected Works have tentatively dated this fragment found in his papers as July 1, 1850. It appears to have been the…
Letter to William Herndon (July 10, 1848)
Ranking #22 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript Context. In this letter to his law partner written from Washington, Congressman Lincoln offered advice about how to get ahead. William H. Herndon was about a decade…
Tagged with: Advice, Ambition, Antebellum, Friendship, Letter, Private, Younger Readers
Posted in Honest Abe
Posted in Honest Abe
Letter to Ulysses S Grant (January 19, 1865)
Ranking #24 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Please read and answer this letter as though I was not President, but only a friend….” Audio Version On This Date HD Daily Report, January 19, 1865…
Tagged with: Family, Friendship, Letter, Management style, Military Affairs, Private, Wartime, Younger Readers
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Posted in Father Abraham
Letter to John Johnston (January 12, 1851)
Ranking #25 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript Context. Abraham Lincoln grew up in what we call today a blended family. His mother Nancy died when his sister Sarah was eleven and he was only…
Tagged with: Antebellum, Consolation, Family, Letter, Private, Religion, Younger Readers
Posted in The Railsplitter
Posted in The Railsplitter
Meditation on Divine Will (September 2, 1862)
Contributing Editors for this page include Mary Beth Donnelly, Michelle Grasso, Marsha Greco and Adam Sonstroem Ranking #35 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims…
Fragment on the Constitution (January 1861)
Contributing Editors for this page include Rob O’Keefe Ranking #50 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “All this is not the result of accident. It has a philosophical cause. Without the Constitution and the Union,…
Tagged with: Antebellum, Civil Liberties, Founders, Nationalism, Notes, Private, Younger Readers
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Posted in Savior of the Union
Letter to George McClellan (October 25, 1862)
Contributing Editors for this page include Brian Elsner and Thomas Warf Ranking #51 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the…
Tagged with: Anger, Letter, Management style, Military Affairs, Private, Telegram, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Father Abraham
Posted in Father Abraham
Copybook Verses (1824-1826)
Contributing editors for this page include Mike Capps Ranking #52 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen he will be good but god knows When Close Readings Mike Capps, “Understanding Lincoln”…
Tagged with: Antebellum, Education, Needs Close Reading, Notes, Private, Younger Readers
Posted in The Railsplitter
Posted in The Railsplitter
Slavery Protest (March 3, 1837)
Contributing Editors for this page include Greg O’Reilly Ranking #53 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy; but that the promulgation…
Tagged with: Antebellum, Legislative, Pragmatism, Public, Slavery, Younger Readers
Posted in Great Emancipator
Posted in Great Emancipator
Letter to Salmon Chase (September 2, 1863)
Contributing editors for this page include Lisa Staup Ranking #68 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Knowing your great anxiety that the emancipation proclamation shall now be applied to certain parts of Virginia and Louisiana…
Tagged with: Border States, Emancipation, Letter, Needs Close Reading, Private, War Powers, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Great Emancipator
Posted in Great Emancipator
Proclamation of Thanksgiving (October 3, 1863)
Ranking #69 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies.” On This Date HD Daily Report, October…
Tagged with: Environment, Executive Order, Nationalism, Needs Close Reading, Public, Religion, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Honest Abe
Posted in Honest Abe
Definition of Democracy (August 1, 1858)
Contributing Editors for this page include Canada Snyder Ranking #81 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of…
Tagged with: Antebellum, Nationalism, Notes, Populism, Private, Slavery, Younger Readers
Posted in Honest Abe
Posted in Honest Abe
Letter to William Kellogg (December 11, 1860)
Ranking #83 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Douglas is sure to be again trying to bring in his ‘Pop. Sov.’ Have none of it. The tug has to come & better now than later.”…
Tagged with: Antebellum, Letter, Management style, Needs Close Reading, Partisanship, Private, Secession, Slavery, Stephen A. Douglas, Younger Readers
Posted in Savior of the Union
Posted in Savior of the Union
Letter to David Hunter (December 31, 1861)
Contributing Editors for this page include Thomas Warf Ranking #84 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “Yours of the 23rd. is received; and I am constrained to say it is difficult to answer so ugly…
Tagged with: Advice, Anger, Friendship, Letter, Military Affairs, Private, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Father Abraham
Posted in Father Abraham
Letter to Hannibal Hamlin (September 28, 1862)
Ranking #85 on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents Annotated Transcript “The North responds to the proclamation sufficiently in breath; but breath alone kills no rebels.” On This Date HD Daily Report, September 28, 1862 The Lincoln Log,…
Tagged with: Determination, Emancipation, Letter, Management style, Needs Close Reading, Private, Wartime, Younger Readers
Posted in Great Emancipator
Posted in Great Emancipator
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