Lincoln+Resources

=Abraham Lincoln Resources =

Help your fellow CAP's in their creation of podcasts and vodcasts on the topic of Abraham Lincoln. Share the web-based resources you find on Lincoln here.




  Official White House Lincoln page - http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html Lincoln research site - http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html Lincoln quotes - http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln78.html More Lincoln quotes - http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Abraham_Lincoln Lincoln's activities in Pennsylvania - http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/Library/newsletter.asp?ID=57&CRLI=137 Lincoln documents at the Library of Congress - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html Lincoln's homestead at the National Park Service site - [|http://www.nps.gov/liho  Ford's Theatre leadership information - http://www.fordstheatre.org


 * Lincoln Memorial Architecture, (Classical) as opposed to when he actually lived; Capitol building, White House, Thomas Jefferson Memorial with the Parthenon/Pantheon
 * The # of columns in it (34 states)
 * Sign Language in his hands
 * Great speeches engraved in the wall
 * Bee wax on marble ceiling to representative opaqueness or other artistic element
 * The whole theatre thing - Ford's Theatre
 * Death Mask
 * Medical treatment of Lincoln, Booth
 * How did they represent his death in the news and by the artists, poets of the day?
 * The penny/$5 bill through the ages
 * Folksongs of the period - all verses, e.g., "John Brown's Body"
 * Images: Project Gutenberg that has original sheet music covers - analyze the art works on those covers
 * Folksong Library: [|http://www.mudcat.org] is a free download that contains the verses/.midi files of 1,000s of songs
 * Gangsters and assassins through the ages
 * "Pacific Overtures" - S. Sondheim and "Assassins"
 * "Our American Cousin" play that was going on when he was assassinated
 * Gilbert and Sullivan
 * Concurrent timeline on web
 * Gettysburg Address compare to Declaration of Independence, etc. What makes a great oration?
 * Civil War/Civil Rights
 * "Abraham, Martin and John"
 * Lincoln Logs, {a picture of a toilet :)} - born in a log cabin architecture through 200 years. How can you tell a structure was built in 1800, 1900, and 2000?
 * "Lincoln Portrait" - write a poem, story, using attributes of Lincoln. What qualities to we ascribe to a "great" nation - not just USA?
 * The waltz that Lincoln had played every time he entered a building. He loved/played this waltz with his wife. Write a patriotic tune on a Japanese style.
 * Piano music of Lincoln...
 * Parodies of Lincoln in the newspapers/magazines of the day.
 * Check out [|http://www.rogertaylor.com]
 * "Ann Rutledge" in Spoon River Anthology
 * Walt Whitman poem "Captain, O Captain"
 * image/photo manipulation of Lincoln portraits through time or Lincoln with M. Monroe - Warhol?
 * Life/Death/Fist Masks
 * Dagguetype?
 * Lincoln's Family - ancestry/descendants - Mary Todd Lincoln
 * General Grant/Lee's relationship to this whole thing
 * Family life of the people of the time
 * The Gettysburg Address
 * Wartime Music: Yesterday and Today
 * Civil War Instruments: field and home
 * Military Bands
 * Sheet Music Art vs CD Cover art (civil war and/or Lincoln's life time) vs today (Iraq war)
 * Protest Music: then and now
 * The Arts of Lincoln's time birth (romantic) thru death (classical)
 * Voices of the People: Music of Lincoln's time from African American, Native American and Women's Perspectives
 * Songs of the Common Man: popular music of the civil war and today's war (2008)