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When you grow up during the depression and the war and you focus on Mr. Lincoln you see how dirt poor he was. You learn that he had fewer than 12 months of formal education. I had more than 12 months of formal education by the second grade.

—Lewis Lehrman

American Anti-Slavery Society (1836) Slave Market of America. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)
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Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)
Abraham Lincoln on Slavery and Race
The Emancipation Proclamation through Different Eyes
The Gettysburg Address
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National picture: Behold oh! America, your sons. The greatest among men,” lithograph by Charles Shober, ca. 1865. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
The Gettysburg Address: Identifying Text, Context and Subtext
Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Lincoln and Presidential Power
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Detail of a broadside printing of Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)
Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan
Lincoln’s First and Second Inaugural Addresses
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
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An “Unconstitutional” Act? The Suspension of the Writ of Habeus Corpus
What Events Led to Lincoln’s Assassination?