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Abraham Lincoln Videos

With the exception of perhaps George Washington, Abraham Lincoln is the president to whom all others are compared. In this Lincoln Bicentenial year, Have Fun With History celebrates the life of our 16th president.

Abraham Lincoln
This 1930 biography of Abraham Lincoln is one of the last movies made by early film great D.W. Griffith. It stars Walter Huston as Abraham Lincoln. It gives a good overview of his life, presidency and assasination.

Lincoln's Boyhood
Abraham Lincoln grew up in the frontier midwest. See what life was like for young Abe during his 14 years in Indiana.

Lincoln in Springfield
As an Illinois lawyer, Abraham Lincoln became an up and coming politician during the years he spent in Springfield, IL. From there, he moved on to the White House.

The Face of Lincoln
Professor Merrell Gage describes the life and career of Abraham Lincoln as he sculpts a lifelike bust of the 16th President, making physical changes in the subject's hair, beard and expression to correspond to events in his life.

The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln delivers his famous Gettysburg Address in this short re-enactment. The night before, instead of speaking to the crowds outside his window, he makes a request that the band play Dixie.

Nor Long Remember
The Gettysburg Address
Provides a re-enactment in which Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address. Pictures a discussion of the ceremony days later by the president's contemporaries.

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Flatboatmen of the Frontier
In the 1800s, Ohio Valley farmers build flatboats to carry their produce and wares down river to market. These are the kind of flatboats driven by Abraham Lincoln.

Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
Daniel Boone leads settlers into Kentucky, but must battle Shawnee Indians who have been persuaded by a French renegade that Boone and the settlers are there to kill them and steal their land.

Kentucky Pioneers
Early pioneer families travel through the wilderness to Kentucky at the end of the Revolutionary War. As they reach their destination, they carve out a new life.

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