The basic facts about Abraham Lincoln are familiar.
- He was born in Kentucky in a log cabin so small it is hard to imagine how his entire family slept in it.
- The family moved to Indiana where he was raised.
- Off to Illinois, the lanky Lincoln became a frontier lawyer, served as a state legislator and won election to the Presidency at a time when the nation’s very survival was at risk.
- Inaugurated in 1861, he served throughout the Civil War, working to break the grip of slavery and to put the country back together until an assassin brought him down.
Read a short biography, view an extensive timeline, meet his family, take a virtual tour of the places important in Lincoln’s life, re-discover his words and speeches, including his famous Gettysburg Address translated into 29 different languages, and ask yourself “Did You Know?”
Source:
OfficialBicentennial Commission
http://www.lincolnbicentennial.gov/lincolns-life/default.aspx
More information about Lincoln and the Bicentennial:
The Abraham Lincoln blog
Abraham Lincoln Bookshop, Chicago
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Springfield Illinois Bicentennial Commision
Illinois Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
The Library of Congress
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