The Life of President Abraham Lincoln

"That this nation, under God, shall have a
new birth of freedom, and that govern-
ment of the people, by the people, for
the people, shall not parish from the earth."
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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        Lincoln, ling'kun, Abra- ham (1809-1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, and one of the best loved of American statesmen. Today his countrymen honor him as the man who saved the American republic from disunion, and gave the black man his freedom. More than this, he stands as the supreme type of the democratic statesman, and the ideals which he expressed by voice and in his daily life are treasured as the greatest spiritual possessions of the American nation. By birth and by training Lincoln was in a literal sense a man of the common people. Born in a log cabin and with his entire schooling covering not more than a year, he could make no claim to aristocratic blood, to scholarship or to social prestige. He was what he was by virtue of inborn greatness. 

• The Ancestry and Boyhood of Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln's Early Career
• Time Line for Lincoln's Administration 1861-65
• Lincoln As President
• Lincoln Becomes A National Figure
• President Abraham Lincoln's Death

Artifacts About President Abraham Lincoln:

1. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
2. Lincoln (poem)
3. Abraham Lincoln by James Russel Lowell
4. Questions and Answers About Lincoln
5. Lincoln's Birthday by Ida Vose Woodbury
6. Sayings About Lincoln
7. Lincoln by Nancy Byrd Turner
8. Emancipation Proclamation
9. Provocation: Abraham Lincoln and Cabin Building

More Online Resources:

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
• White House biography
• Abraham Lincoln Association
• Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation
• United States Congress. "Abraham Lincoln (id: L000313)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress
• "Life Portrait of Abraham Lincoln", from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits, June 28, 1999
• "Writings of Abraham Lincoln" from C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History
• Abraham Lincoln: Original Letters and Manuscripts – Shapell Manuscript Foundation
• Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
• Teaching Abraham Lincoln – National Endowment for the Humanities
• In Popular Song:Our Noble Chief Has Passed Away by Cooper/Thomas