Development Opportunities

Educators have many opportunities to develop their professional skills in workshops, institutes and lectures with a Lincoln theme.

The opportunities below are endorsed by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

Teacher Workshops and Institutes

• Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
  The Lincoln Bicentennial Teacher's Workshop
• Annual Lincoln Institute for Teachers - June 2007, 2008, 2009
  Historic Southern Indiana
• Learning with Lincoln Institute
  Teaching with Primary Sources at Eastern Illinois University and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
• National Conference for K-12 Teachers of U.S. and World History
  National Council for History Education
• Presidential Academy for History and Civics
  Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, Ashland University

Lectures and Scholarly Conferences

• Abraham Lincoln at 200: New Perspectives on his Life and Legacy
  Houghton Library, Harvard University
• Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
  Lincoln Bicentennial Speakers Series
• The Abraham Lincoln Institute Annual Symposium
  The Abraham Lincoln Institute
• Abraham Lincoln Without Borders
  International Lincoln Center
• A Humanitarian as Broad as the World
  German Historical Society
• Inspiring the Better Angels of our Nature 
  The Fetzer Institute -- Kalamazoo, MI
• Lincoln and American Values: A Symposium
  National Archives and Records Administration
• The Lincoln Forum Annual Conference
  The Lincoln Forum