Where can I get good information about Abraham Lincoln’s first presidential campaign/election?

Where can I get good information about Abraham Lincoln‘s first presidential campaign/election?
I’m doing a multi-genre essay on Abraham Lincoln’s first presidential campaign and election.

Where can I get good information about it? Probably the pros and cons during that time period, his goals and hopes for the nation, his speeches, his inauguration speech and all of that?

Can you provide me with some good links or something of that sort for me to track down the information?

Thanks!

Answer by william_byrnes2000
These two links are good. I recommend the second, Sam Wheeler is “the man” for Lincoln sites, imho

The third is for the Lincoln Library in Springfield, a particularly interesting place to visit. I am planning to show off Springfield to my grand nephews and grand niece in August, and it’s a featured part of my itinerary.

Abraham Lincoln information?
can anyone please send me information about Abraham lincoln?my sister needs this information for her term paper

Answer by Just Joyce
There is so much information on the web about this President. . . here are a few sits to explore. . . I personally like the last one !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.htm

http://www.lincolnbicentennial.gov/

Answer by Electric Blue.
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He is also one of the most famous presidents ever. He kept the country together during the Civil War. He was also assassinated shortly after the end of the war.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/

http://www.alincolnlearning.us/abe3.html

http://www.abrahamlincoln.org/teachers/index.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/abrahamlincoln.htm

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/exhibits/ForeverFree/web_lincoln.htm

The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in american history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Britain’s? In The Real Lincoln, author Thomas J. DiLorenzo uncovers a side of Lincoln not told in many history books and overshadowed by the immense Lincoln legend.
Through extensive research and meticulous documentation, DiLorenzo portrays the sixteenth president as a man who devoted his political career to revolutionizing the American form of government from one that was very limited in scope and highly decentralized—as the Founding Fathers intended—to a highly centralized, activist state. Standing in his way, however, was the South, with its independent states, its resistance to the national government, and its reliance on unfettered free trade. To accomplish his goals, Lincoln subverted the Constitution, trampled states’ rights, and launched a devastating Civil War, whose wounds haunt us still. According to this provacative book, 600,000 American soldiers did not die for the honorable cause of ending slavery but for the dubious agenda of sacrificing the independence of the states to the supremacy of the federal government, which has been tightening its vise grip on our republic to this very day.
You will discover a side of Lincoln that you were probably never taught in school—a side that calls into question the very myths that surround him and helps explain the true origins of a bloody, and perhaps, unnecessary war.

“A devastating critique of America’s most famous president.”
—Joseph Sobran, commentator and nationally syndicated columnist

“Today’s federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. Thomas J. DiLorenzo gives an account of How this come about in The Real Lincoln.”
—Walter E. Williams, from the foreword

“A peacefully negotiated secession was the best way to handle all the problems facing Americans in 1860. A war of coercion was Lincoln’s creation. It sometimes takes a century or more to bring an important historical event into perspective. This study does just that and leaves the reader asking, ‘Why didn’t we know this before?’”
—Donald Livingston, professor of philosophy, Emory University

“Professor DiLorenzo has penetrated to the very heart and core of American history with a laser beam of fact and analysis.”
—Clyde Wilson, professor of history, University of South Carolina, and editor, The John C. Calhoun Papers

From the Hardcover edition.

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I need 2 props that show important information or Abraham Lincoln?
Any ideas on what is a prop and any ideas for a 3rd grader.

Answer by Cutie Pie
A beard and a big hat and POOF!…………. Your Honest Abe

Answer by lady bug
You could make an Emancipation Proclamation: http://www.classbrain.com/artteenst/uploads/emancipation-proclamation.jpg AND a picture or sculpture of the Lincoln Memorial: http://www.wingettphotography.com/wdc/collection/images/Lincoln_Memorial_Statue_0976.jpg

These two things say A LOT about Lincoln and would be appropriate for a 3rd grader.

Answer by pwrgrlmanda
a theatre and a gun.
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Answer by psugigi
a hat and a penny

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