This Teacher Resource Guide was created to accompany the “Lincoln Biography Reading Kit,” one of four Lincoln’s Legacy Learning Kits developed by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Education Division to mark the bicentennial celebration of Lincoln’s birth.

Introduction

Lesson 1 Pioneer Youth

Lesson 2 Lincoln - Douglas Debates

Lesson 3 Campaign of 1860

Lesson 4 Life as President

Lesson 5 Analyzing Political Cartoons

Lesson 6 The Gettysburg Address

Lesson 7 Lincoln's Assassination