The following websites offer teachers and educators a variety of activities and lesson plans that will enhance students understanding of the central themes throughout Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
Many of the examples are from the National Endowment for the Humanities website EDSITEment and The Learning Page through The Library of Congress.
Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
Grades 3-5
· We Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
Grades 6-8
· Factory vs. Plantation in the North and the South
· People and Places in the North and the South
· Before Brother Fought Brother: Life in the North and the South, 1847-1861
· The Civil War through a Child’s Eye
· Photojournalism: A Record of War
Grades 9-12
· Civil War Era Downloadable Songs
· Ladies, Contraband and Spies: Women in the Civil War
African American History
Grades 3-5
· Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources
Grades 6-8
· African American Communities in the North before the Civil War
Grades 9-12
· The Emancipation Proclamation: Freedom’s First Steps
Primary Sources
· From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of African-American History
