Teaching Lincoln with Primary Sources

[Gene C]

This site from Eastern Illinois University

http://www.eiu.edu/eiutps/alincoln.php

Have fun exploring!

[Linda Anderson]

Thanks, Gene. The site looks interesting. There's even a Lincoln Assassination CSI activity. Poor George Robinson and Fanny Seward are left out of Powell's attack on Seward once again, though.

[Gene C]

A shame, since I would consider Fanny's diary a primary source. Maybe you could email the director and share that info with her.

[Linda Anderson]

A shame, since I would consider Fanny's diary a primary source. Maybe you could email the director and share that info with her.

Good idea, Gene.

[L Verge]

I like the Lincoln Assassination CSI title because it is up-to-date and relevant to modern students' television senses. It appears to be much the same as the mock trial that Roger and I used for years in our classrooms and what the education staff at Surratt House still uses as part of our in-school programs or at the end of a class tour.

[Gene C]

An interesting web site - Teaching History.org

http://teachinghistory.org/civil-war

[Gene C]

An online resource for teaching and learning Abraham Lincoln

"A Collection of Learning Activities and Resources for the Busy Teacher" by Howard Taylor

http://www.learningabe.info/16thpresident.html

and ... http://www.learningabe.info/