Abraham Lincoln's Biography Video

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• Abraham Lincoln as an Historical Figure, by Michael Johnson, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
• Lincoln's Ideas About Race, by Michael Johnson, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
• Abraham Lincoln and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, by Michael Johnson, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
• Lincoln's Religious Beliefs, by John Mack Faragher, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Mary Todd Lincoln's Frontier Life, by Julie Roy Jeffrey, Ph.D., Goucher College.
• Abraham Lincoln and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• Abraham Lincoln's Changing Attitude Towards Slavery, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• Abraham Lincoln and the African-American Colonization Movement, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• Abraham Lincoln and the Idea of Free Labor, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Lincoln and Abolitionism, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Abraham Lincoln and the Problem of Race and Slavery, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Race, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Abraham Lincoln and the Roots of the Abolitionist Movement, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Lincoln's Ambitions and Attitudes Toward Frontier Life, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
• Abraham Lincoln's Religious Beliefs and Public Life, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
• Abraham Lincoln's Attitudes Toward Race and Slavery, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
• Abraham Lincoln, Women, and Politics, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
• Abraham Lincoln's Militia Service in the Black Hawk War, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
• Lincoln the Whig, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
• Lincoln's Political Rhetoric and the Growth of American Democracy, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.

The videos above were made possible through a generous grant from the Illinois Humanities Council.

New! The following videos are a production of Jeffrey Chown from the Northern Illinois University Department of Communication. Funding for the project was provided by: The Illinois Humanities Council, NIU Libraries, NIU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the NIU Foundation. The full video is entitled: Lincoln and Black Hawk.

• Introduction
• Black Hawk — "I am a Sauk"
• Lincoln and the Frontier, I
• Black Hawk and the Northwest
• Lincoln and the Frontier, II
• Lincoln and Native Americans
• Origins of the Black Hawk War, I
• Origins of the Black Hawk War, II
• Origins of the Black Hawk War, III
• Black Hawk Crosses the Mississippi, 1832
• The Militia Responds
• Stillman's Run
• Black Hawk's Flight
• Massacre at Bad Axe
• Black Hawk in Captivity
• Lincoln and the Black Hawk War
• Lincoln, the Black Hawk War, and Myth
• Epilogue

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