With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

~ Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

Use these lesson plans (created by educators for educators) to explore the Lincoln with your students in your classroom:

Mathew Brady Bunch - (Grades 6-12) Students become reporters, analyzing a Civil War photograph, and writing a newspaper article based on their chosen photograph. Students may choose a Lincoln photograph as a basis for their research.

What Do You See? - (Grades 5-12) Students analyze Civil War photographs, and develop links between the Civil War and American industrialization. This lesson could be adapted for use with photographs depicting Abraham Lincoln.

Create your own collaborative lesson plans using material related to this month's theme assembled from The Learning Page Collection Connections:

Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library - (Summary Only) This site serves as a gateway to two other American Memory Collections on Abraham Lincoln and includes a presentation about some of the Lincoln documents held by the Library of Congress.

We'll Sing to Abe Our Song Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War, from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana - (Summary and Teaching Resources) This collection includes more than two hundred sheet music compositions about Lincoln and the Civil War as recorded in popular music.

Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society - (Summary and Teaching Resources) Search this collection using the term "Lincoln" to locate photos and documents about Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress - (Summary and Teaching Resources) The items of Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress provide a biography of Lincoln from his early years, through his legislative career and presidency, to his assassination.

Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865 - (Summary and Teaching Resources) This collection documents life in Civil War era Washington, D.C. as seen through the eyes of Horatio Taft.

Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress, The - (Summary and Teaching Resources) This collection includes papers and documents related to Abraham Lincoln.

American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera, An - (Summary and Teaching Resources) Search this collection using the term "Abraham Lincoln" to locate examples of Lincoln ephemera.

Selected Civil War Photographs - (Summary and Teaching Resources) Search this collection using the term "Abraham Lincoln" for photographs featuring Lincoln and documenting his assassination.

America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets - (Summary and Teaching Resources) Search this collection using the word "Abraham Lincoln" for song sheets related to Lincoln.

These terms may be useful when searching for items related to this theme in the American Memory collections.