Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln - head & shoulders portrait [Rights-free portrait of Abraham Lincoln from the Library of Congress]

Part 1: Video

Election Song

Part 2: Podcast

Click here to listen to the Scholar Reappraises President Lincoln:
February 11, 2009 (10 minutes)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100585048
In a new documentary that begins airing Wednesday on PBS, scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. tries to uncover the real man. In Looking for Lincoln, the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University discovers the 16th president may have been known as the great emancipator, but he also told racist jokes and hoped to resolve America's racial dilemma by sending blacks back to Africa.

Part 3: Reflection Questions:
1. Do you admire Lincoln?

2. Why or why not?

3. What did you learn about Linoln in this podcast?

4. Do you think Lincoln change during the presidency?
If so, what made him change?