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	Useful links to primary source materials & projects from Teaching with Primary Sources consortium members

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Abraham Lincoln & Me Primary Source Activity Book for Early Readers
Students are active learners when they are engaged in real-world activities. This project allows students to become familiar with primary sources while learning about Abraham Lincoln and fostering a personal connection to this great U.S. president.

Monumental Men
Through image analysis and individual and group project work, students learn about the characters and contributions of the Mount Rushmore presidents and determine what qualities and accomplishments make someone worthy of a lasting tribute.

Presidential Portraits
This project helps students to learn about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln while also using objective and subjective techniques to analyze primary source images. Students contemplate how presidents are portrayed, then pose for their own presidential portraits.

Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
This collection consists of approximately 20,000 documents, most from the 1850s through 1865, and organized into three "General Correspondence" series.

The Gettysburg Address
This Library of Congress online exhibition features background information on this great speech and the preservation of the drafts, as well as images and text transcriptions.

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Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1909. Photograph of Abraham Lincoln standing next to a desk. Chicago Historical Society. Accessed from the Library of Congress American Memory Collection - Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933. ichicdn n007078

California University of Pennsylvania
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Washington County Pennsylvania Citizens to Abraham Lincoln
An 1862 petition encouraging President Lincoln to sign the Congressional act to free all slaves within the rebel states signed by citizens from Washington County, PA. Both men and women signed the petition, which was not a usual practice during this time period as most women did not actively participate in politics.

1860: An Election on the Edge of the Civil War
This high-school WebQuest designed by Byron Holdiman brings students into the turmoil of the 1860 election as they analyze the backgrounds and philosophies of the four major presidential candidates and investigate why certain regions voted for certain candidates

Washington County Pennsylvania Citizens to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, August 28, 1862.

Image from the 1860: An Election on the Edge of the Civil War website homepage.

Eastern Illinois University
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Lincoln Political Cartoons
Similar to It's No Laughing Matter found in the Features and Activities section of the Library of Congress Learning Page, the political cartoons to be analyzed here are completely interactive. You can drag and drop the persuasive techniques used in political cartoons onto their instance in the cartoon to highlight when you have selected the correct technique.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum Resources
These pages were created and used with EIU Teaching with Primary Sources Program workshops held at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Library of Congress primary sources can be seen in The Journey, Part I - The Pre-Presidential Years and The Journey, Part II - The White House Years.

Howard, J. H. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest . . . where be your gibes now?-- Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 1. 1864. [Probably published by Thomas W. Strong, N.Y.] Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Digital ID ppmsc 00176.

The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati. Abraham Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation. c1888. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

Metropolitan State College of Denver
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The Turning Point: Gettysburg
Scroll through our list of projects to access this Document Based Question - KnowledgeQuest for 8th Grade U.S. History students. Designed by Diane Ellis, Amy Johnston, and Felice Mittler of Henry Middle School, Denver, CO.

The Power of Words: The Effectiveness of Rhetoric in Letters and Speeches of the Civil War Period
These primary sources were used to support a lesson on Chinese culture and their immigration experience.

Letter, Mary Todd Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln advising her husband to remove the hesitant Gen. George B. McClellan from command, 2 November [1862].

Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
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Collection Connections: We'll Sing to Abe Our Song
The Collection Connections section provides activity ideas for using this American Memory collection, which includes more than 200 sheet-music compositions representing Lincoln and the Civil War as reflected in popular music.

Lincoln Theme: Collage Project
View a lesson where students create a collage after assessing the feelings of the nation before and after the death of Abraham Lincoln by comparing and contrasting song sheets written before the election of Abraham Lincoln and after his assassination

People's campaign song, No. 1. Lincoln & Hamlin. Tune-Columbia's the gem of the ocean. America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets Library of Congress American Memory Collection.