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A Day With Lincoln
If you type "Abraham Lincoln" into the Google Book search engine, you receive more than six million results. Even the more limited field of Google Scholar nets 240,000.
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/index.html
Timeline and photo
The Emancipation Proclamation
1- President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863
2- Third year of bloody Civil War
3- The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
4- Applied only to states that had seceded from the Union
5- Exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control
6- The freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory
7- Fundamentally transformed the character of the war
8- Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy,
9- By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union
10- The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom.
Ribbons
The original of the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, is in the National Archives in Washington, DC. With the text covering five pages the document was originally tied with narrow red and blue ribbons, which were attached to the signature page by a wafered impression of the seal of the United States.
Show sample page: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/
Actual Text
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.html
What line was the most interesting and why?
http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
Pic of monument
Excellent web site if interested in more of his works http://www.abrahamlincolnassociation.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herndon_(lawyer)
Biographer and friend of Lincoln