Abraham Lincoln

“I have heard that, in the autumn of 1818, Abraham Lincoln entered a log cabin to hear his mother’s final words. I tell you this because I want you to know who he was, and that his young life was marked out by sorrow, and that the sorrow he knew as a young man was, surely, one of those things which gave him all the love and wisdom which filled his older years…”

So begins the first of five vignettes in the Abraham Lincoln series. Each story in this series is written on a two-sided sheet of paper, and is accompanied by images, illustrations, and a map. The core element of each vignette is a series of “character questions,” designed to have students think more deeply about virtue and vice in the man Abraham Lincoln.