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Abraham Lincoln: From a log cabin to the White House
Lincoln's boyhood home
Learn how Abraham Lincoln's frontier childhood and early appetite for reading shaped his character
Debunking pop culture myths about Abraham Lincoln
Learn how reading Shakespeare and the King James Bible helped Abraham Lincoln compose his best-remembered address in American history
Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois
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Abraham Lincoln: From a log cabin to the White House
An overview of the life of Abraham Lincoln.
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Learn how Abraham Lincoln's frontier childhood and early appetite for reading shaped his character
Dramatization of aspects of Lincoln's childhood in Kentucky and Indiana.
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Debunking pop culture myths about Abraham Lincoln
Learn about the creative license moviemakers have taken in films about Abraham Lincoln.
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Learn how reading Shakespeare and the King James Bible helped Abraham Lincoln compose his best-remembered address in American history
Learn how Abraham Lincoln's studying of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible...
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Explore Abraham Lincoln's marriage to Mary Todd and time as state lawmaker in Springfield, Illinois
Description of Abraham Lincoln's years as a state lawmaker in Illinois, where he...
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Examine Abraham Lincoln's campaign for the U.S. presidential election of 1860
Learn about Abraham Lincoln's campaign for the U.S. presidential election of 1860.
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Did anyone in the U.S. government not support the Civil War?
Confronted by Copperhead opposition and by dissension within his cabinet, U.S. Pres....
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Travel back to the night of Abraham Lincoln's assassination days after the end of the Civil War
Just days after the effective end of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot...
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Discover the meaning and purpose of the Gettysburg Address delivered by President Abraham Lincoln
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What were Abraham Lincoln's Spot Resolutions?
Learn more about Abraham Lincoln's Spot Resolutions during the Mexican-American War.
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Examine Abraham Lincoln's career in Springfield as a lawyer, politician, and woman's suffrage advocate
Abraham Lincoln's years as a politician and lawyer in Illinois.
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Illinois: The history and demographics of the Prairie State
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The Lincoln-Douglas debates explained
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Learn how Abraham Lincoln defeated George McClellan before ending the American Civil War
Lincoln's reelection and the end of the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln portrait
Abraham Lincoln, oil on canvas by George Healy, 1887; in the National Portrait Gallery,...
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; gift of the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, 1942 (object no. NPG.65.50)
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Anthony Berger of the Mathew Brady Studio, February...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Lincoln and his cabinet
U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln (seated center) and his cabinet, with Lieut. Gen. Winfield...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln: statue at the Lincoln Memorial
Statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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Lincoln's boyhood home
Log cabin, Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home, Knob Creek, Kentucky, originally built...
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Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois
Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois.
© James P. Rowan
Lincoln and his son
Abraham Lincoln with his son Tad, 1864.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln
Daguerreotype of Congressman-elect Abraham Lincoln, c. 1846–47. This is the earliest-known...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
A favorite photograph
Abraham Lincoln, photograph probably taken by Roderick M. Cole, in Peoria, Illinois,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (cph 3a55058)
Stephen A. Douglas
Stephen A. Douglas, c. 1858.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Lincoln by Brady
Abraham Lincoln in a photograph known as the Cooper Institute portrait, taken by...
The Photographic Album/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (2021669449)
1860 U.S. presidential election cartoon
Cartoon of the 1860 U.S. presidential election showing three of the candidates—(left...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Lincoln-Hamlin election poster
Election poster, campaign of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, 1860, lithograph.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-pga-07990)
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Alexander Hesler, Springfield, Illinois, 1860.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (S/NPG.67.233)
Abraham Lincoln: inauguration
The inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as U.S. president, Washington, D.C., March 4,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Battle of Antietam: Abraham Lincoln and George B. McClellan meet at headquarters
Abraham Lincoln meeting with General George B. McClellan (facing him at left) at...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-cwpb-04352)
Lincoln's Midnight Think
C.W. Reed's cartoon Lincoln's Midnight Think depicting President Abraham...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln
U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Mathew Brady, 1864.
Brady National Photographic Art Gallery/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-19211)
Emancipation Proclamation
Lithograph copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Alexander Gardner's “cracked-plate” portrait
Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Alexander Gardner, February 1865; in the National...
© Frederick Hill Meserve Collection/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (NPG.81.M1)
The Union Christmas Dinner
The Union Christmas Dinner, print published in Harper's Weekly...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre—After the Act,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Gettysburg Battlefield dedication
People attending the dedication ceremony of the national cemetery at Gettysburg Battlefield,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address
Autographed manuscript of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, 1863.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, ambrotype by Samuel Alschuler, 1858.

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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, from a photograph made at Beardstown, Illinois, during the 1858...
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Abraham Lincoln
U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln, February 5, 1865, photograph by Alexander Gardner.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, photograph by Alexander Gardner, 1863.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital file no. 3a53289)
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, 1860.
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Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln
Life-size bronze statues of Stephen A. Douglas (left) and Abraham Lincoln at the...
© Melinda Leonard
Emancipation Proclamation
Page one of the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863.
NARA
1860 flag banner
Flag banner promoting Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in 1860.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-19302)
Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D.C.: Lincoln Memorial
Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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Abraham Lincoln
Statue of Abraham Lincoln, designed by Daniel Chester French, in the Lincoln Memorial,...
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Lincoln Monument State Memorial, Dixon, Illinois.
Courtesy of the Illinois Department of Business and Economic Opportunity, Bureau of Tourism
assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Broadside advertising a $100,000 reward for the capture of John Surratt, John Wilkes...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3g05341u)
Urbana: Carle Park
Statue of Abraham Lincoln by Lorado Taft, Carle Park, Urbana, Ill.
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assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The assassination of U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, April 14, 1865,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3b49830u)
Lincoln-Johnson campaign banner
Campaign banner for 1864 Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln and running...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
political cartoon: Abraham Lincoln as Don Quixote
Political cartoon depicting U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln (left) as Don Quixote and...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldier's Votes on the Battle Field
The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldier's Votes on the Battle Field,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-89731)
A Little Game of Bagatelle, Between Old Abe the Rail Splitter & Little Mac the Gunboat General
A Little Game of Bagatelle, Between Old Abe the Rail Splitter & Little Mac the...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-89716)
Emancipation Proclamation, first reading
The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, engraving by A.H. Ritchie, 1866....
Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-DIG-pga-02502)
Abraham Lincoln key events
Key events in the life of Abraham Lincoln.
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Lincoln-Douglas debates
Abraham Lincoln (left) and U.S. Sen. Stephen A. Douglas in debate, 1858.
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1860 presidential campaign
“The Undecided Political Prize Fight,” a lithograph depicting the presidential campaign...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-7877)
American presidential election, 1860
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American presidential election, 1864
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New Salem State Historic Site
The Lincoln-Berry general store is located at New Salem State Historic Site. The...
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Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC USZ 62 15325)
Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address
The dedication ceremony for the National Cemetery at Gettysburg Battlefield was held...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln: deathbed
Abraham Lincoln on his deathbed, surrounded by friends and colleagues, hand-colored...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-07755)
Emancipation Proclamation
A lithograph from about 1881 commemorates U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital file no. LC-DIG-pga-02797)
Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address
On November 19, 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered what has become the...
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Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
At a glance: the Lincoln presidency
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