The Time of the Lincolns
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 6–12
- Subjects
- social studies (United States history)
- Provider
- PBS and WGBH
- Special requirements
- QuickTime or RealVideo is needed for video portions of the site.
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The Time of the Lincolns is a companion piece to the film Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided. Topics discussed are partisan politics, slavery and freedom, abolition, industrial development and the nation's economy, women and the Civil War, and Americans at war.
Primary sources include letters and first-hand accounts from soldiers, nurses, abolitionists, and others from that time period.
