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Lincoln Bicentennial Feature: Investigate places related to Abraham Lincoln in a collection of lesson plans examining the life and legacy of our 16th President.

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Teaching with Historic Places regularly introduces new on-line lesson plans. The latest offerings include:

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• Federal Courthouses and Post Offices: Symbols of Pride and Permanence in American Communities (136) Learn how three buildings restored and maintained by the U.S. General Services Administration illustrate the important role the federal government played and continues to play in communities across the country.
  
  
• The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House: African American Women Unite for Change Learn about Mary McLeod Bethune and how she and the organization she founded promoted political and social change for African American women.
  
  
• Las flotas españolas de 1715 y 1733: Desastres en el mar La versión en español de The Spanish Treasure Fleets of 1715 and 1733: Disasters Strike at Sea.
  
  
• The Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March: Shaking the Conscience of the Nation Learn how people in Selma, Alabama, and national civil rights organizations worked together to end the unconstitutional denial of voting rights to African Americans in the South.