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• Abraham Lincoln
• African-American Experience and American Racial Attitudes
• Economic Development and Labor
• Frontier Settlement
• Law and Society
• Native American Relations
• Political Development
• Religion and Culture
• Women and Gender

Slide Shows

1. Lincoln and American Party Politics.
2. Native Americans in Illinois.
3. Frontier Settlement.
4. Women's Experience and Gender Roles.
5. African-American Experience and American Racial Attitudes.
6. Economic Development.
7. Religion and Culture.
8. Law and Society.
9. Lincoln's Biography
   • Introduction Part I.
   • Introduction Part II.
   • Boyhood and Migration, 1809-1830.
   • Indian Fighting and Politics in New Salem, 1831-1836.
   • Springfield, the Law and the Whig Party, 1837-1843.
   • Congress and the Mexican War, 1844-1849.
   • Return to the Law, 1850-1853.
   • Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1854-1856.
   • Debating Douglas on the National Stage, 1857-1858.
   • The Campaign of the Century, 1859-1861.
   
   
   
   
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