For Lincoln, history was not just a record of what the Founders had done, but a living force animated by the ideals they enshrined. The facts of land ordinances and constitutional silences revealed ...

In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham Lincoln in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of who Lincoln was. They investigate primary source documents in order to ...

‘From Man to Myth: Lincoln’s Evolving Image’ is the latest exhibit at the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections on the third floor of the University of Illinois Library in Urbana. Smerz Smerz ‘From ...