Teaching Abraham Lincoln

The Abraham Lincoln Association has a handful of plain text lesson plans that revolve around Lincoln documents. There's probably better stuff out there on Lincoln, but these are good for boiling down part of the large volume of Lincoln's works and there are a few good suggestions for classroom activities. Several Obama tie-ins from the ALA-hosted Lincoln birthday bicentennial as well. 

Nothern Illinois University's Lincoln/Net has an interesting audio library of songs from the civil war era and some interactive maps that show voting results for presidential elections of the period. Their Teacher's Parlor hosts several lesson plans:

1. Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

2. Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858: Interactive Map Activity

3. The Anti-Slavery Movement

4. The Black Hawk War--Reconstructing "Stillman's Run"

5. The Cherokee Removal

6. Lincoln, Patriotism and Protest

7. Songs of the Times: American Concerns in 19th Century Campaigns

8. Slavery and the Legal Status of Free Blacks: Rhetorical Analysis of Debates During the 1847 Illinois Constitutional Convention

9. Free Market Labor vs. Slave Labor: Debating the Mud-Sill Theory

10. To Come to Illinois — Or Not?

11. Was the Dred Scott Decision Judicial Activism? The Theoretical Foundations of Legal Reasoning

12. Diplomatic Misunderstandings: Indian Treaties and the Black Hawk War

13. Parties and Their Politics: Analyzing Political Party Platforms, 1840-1860

14. The Importance of Religion in Political Life in the 19th Century: Abraham Lincoln's Experience

15. Gender Roles in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: What Fiction Tells Us