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Abraham Lincoln Web Sites
Massachusetts in the Era of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Web Sites
The Abraham Lincoln Association
http://www.abrahamlincolnassociation.org/
This Web site provides access to several excellent Lincoln resources. It includes the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, and Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, online access to the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln and the Lincoln Log: A Daily Chronology of the Life of Abraham Lincoln, and online versions of several books.
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Teacher Resources
http://www.abrahamlincoln200.org/learning-about-lincoln/default.aspx
Teaching resources for grades K-12, including lesson plans, reading lists, interactive games, timelines and teacher/professional development opportunities from the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
Abraham Lincoln Institute
http://www.lincoln-institute.org/index.html
The Web site of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, it includes video podcasts of presentations at their annual Lincoln symposium, from a diverse group of Lincoln scholars.
Abraham Lincoln Newspaper Article Archive
http://www.abrahamlincolnarchive.com/Home.aspx
Archive allows users to search newspaper articles about Lincoln from historical newspapers.
Abraham Lincoln Online
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html
A large collection of online Lincoln materials, including lists of Lincoln-related events, electronic access to many of Lincoln’s letters, speeches, quotations, and writings, links to historic sites, and an extensive Lincoln bibliography.
Abraham Lincoln Research Site
http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln2.html
An extensive collection of Lincoln materials, including photos of the president and his family, educational resources, essays and articles on Lincoln, information on his legal career, his family’s genealogy, and links to historic sites.
The Lincoln Institute
http://www.abrahamlincoln.org/
A collection of Web sites that each focus on different aspects of Lincoln’s life and administration. Each Web site offers extensive biographical information.
Abraham Lincoln’s Classroom
http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/index.asp
Educational Web site for students that touches on a broad range of Lincoln subjects and includes a section for teachers.
Lincoln North
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/lincoln/cover.htm
The Web site of McGill University’s extensive collection of Lincolniana, including many photographs, documents, and letters. The collection helps show the historical context of Lincoln’s era and popular perceptions of the president.Lincoln Play
http://www.lincolnplay.com
A one-man show written and performed by Bart McCarthy. This live stage presentation based on extensive research supported by a grant from National Endowment for the Humanities, has had hundreds of performances throughout New England and Great Britain.
Massachusetts in the Era of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln’s Classroom
http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/Library/newsletter.asp?ID=54&CRLI=134
An in-depth discussion of Lincoln’s 1948 visit to Massachusetts and his relationships with Massachusetts figures during the Civil War era, sponsored by the Lincoln Institute. The Lincoln Institute Web sites also include pages focusing on Lincoln and the Massachusetts individuals who influenced him.
Abraham Lincoln in Worcester
http://books.google.com/books?id=g8_RUyCMvnQC
A slim book, published in 1914 by Arthur Prentice Rugg, recounting Lincoln’s visit to Worcester in September 1848, including the complete text of the speech he gave at the Whig Convention. The book is digitized on Google Books.
Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad
http://inquiryunlimited.org/x1/etoc/abol/abol.html
A student-friendly site about Abolitionism in general, with links to specific Massachusetts people and events.
African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts
http://www.masshist.org/endofslavery/
Web site of the Massachusetts Historical Society that presents historical manuscripts and rare published works illuminating the lives of African Americans in Massachusetts until the Commonwealth’s abolition of slavery in the 1780s.
Boston African-American National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/boaf/
Includes information about Boston’s abolitionists and historic sites related to them. Also provides access to the Liberator Files, a collection of items that appeared in William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper, the Liberator:http://www.liberatorfiles.com/
Massachusetts Historical Society: Images of the Anti-Slavery Movement in Massachusetts
http://www.masshist.org/online/abolition.cfm
Offers more than 800 digital images presenting the role of Massachusetts in the abolitionist movement. Includes photographs, paintings, sculptures, engravings, artifacts, banners, and broadsides.
Massachusetts Civil War Research Center
http://www.massachusettscivilwar.com/default.asp
A comprehensive collection of information about the men who served in the Massachusetts military during the Civil War. The information one the Web site was taken in part from documents created by the Adjutant General's Office of Massachusetts in 1888.
Massachusetts Civil War Web sites
http://www.masshome.com/histcwar.html
A collection of Massachusetts Civil War links. The Web sites include information on specific units, reenactment units, individuals who fought, archives, collections of letters, photographs and graphics, museums, and research pages.
Words of Thunder
http://www.wordsofthunder.org/trail_map.htm
A collaboration between the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Afro-American History presenting abolitionist activity in Boston, including educational resources and an Abolitionist Trail Map.