Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation
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PBS Movie on Lincoln "Mary and Abraham Lincoln: A House Divided" Located at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/ gives a whole variety of information complementary to the video, portions of which we watched in class. The video itself gives a detailed account of the lives of both Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln.

 

Glory A review of the movie can be found at http://www.destgulch.com/movies/glory/ complete with sound samplings from the movie and numerous pictures.

 

Lincoln Speeches (Audio)

Reading of Lincoln's "Cooper Union Address" (an excerpt). Regarded as the speech that made Lincoln president this is from the NPR website and is a reading by an actor at Cooper Union in NYC. The NPR website is http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1876321 and contains a link to the audio file.

 

Interactive Timeline Interesting chronology of Lincoln 's life available at http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/lincoln that allows you to input any specific day in Lincoln 's life and it will give you relevant information to that day.

Another chronology is available at http://www.nps.gov/liho/lincoln.htm and provides a more generalized overview.