FRIDAY FREEBEE: Lincoln’s Birthday
If you’re looking to bring Abraham Lincoln’s life into perspective on the 200-th anniversary of his birth, a series of videos, slide shows, essays and original documents at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is enough to build several class lesson plans around. On top of commentary by historians, like James McPherson and Sean Wilentz, there’s a series of podcasts on the 16-th president.

