ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE MAN BEHIND THE MONUMENT
Episode 13 | Human History — Individuals
In this History episode we focus on Abraham Lincoln — the man who taught himself law from borrowed books on a frontier where schools barely existed, held the United States together through its bloodiest war, freed four million people, and was shot in a theater five days after the war ended.
This episode covers his genuinely impoverished childhood, his almost entirely self-directed education, the Peoria Speech of 1854, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the specific qualities that made him an extraordinary wartime president, the Emancipation Proclamation as…
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