Blogs                  

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•  Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American Union and Slavery
•  A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum America
• Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
• Teaching Abraham Lincoln
• Abraham Lincoln on the American Union: “A Word Fitly Spoken”
• Lincoln Goes to War
• The American Civil War: A “Terrible Swift Sword” 
• We Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the Political Polarization over Slavery
• The Second Inaugural Address (1865)—Restoring the American Union
• The Emancipation Proclamation: Freedom's First Steps

•  Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.

• Alexander Stephens, "Cornerstone Speech" (1861)
• Chicago Times Editorial, "The President at Gettysburg"
• Charles Sumner, "Letter to John Bright"
• Homecoming Speech at Chicago (1858)
• James Buchanan, State of the Union Address (1860)
• Jefferson Davis, African Church Speech"
• John C. Calhoun, "Slavery a Positive Good"
• "The Policy of Aggression," New Orleans Daily Crescent (1860)