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This May 6th of 1865 newspaper was published three weeks after the assassination, death, and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. The portrait on the front shows Tad and Lincoln spending time together. The newspaper then explains that they were very close. In the movie, it is shown that way as well.  The newspaper doesn't go into detail of the relationship but the movie does. Lincoln gave a lot of attention to Tad, took care of him, and showed him the life of a soldier in the war. Of course, some of this could be a dramatic license because no one truly knows what happened behind closed doors in the house of Abraham Lincoln all of the time. The newspaper also goes into the death and funeral of the  President but does not mention how it affected his family. I think the article was a good source of information and gave insightful views but nothing like the movie.

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Civil War Harper's Weekly, May 6, 1865

The May 6, 1865 Edition of Harper's Weekly includes a touching portrait of President Abraham Lincoln, and his son Tad. This issue was published shortly after President Lincoln's Assassination, and includes incredible historical content on Lincoln, the Assassination, Reconstruction, Lincoln's funeral, and news of a mourning nation.

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Abraham Lincoln Lying in State in the White House Green Room

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The May 6, 1865 Edition of Harper's Weekly includes a touching portrait of President Abraham Lincoln, and his son Tad. This issue was published shortly after President Lincoln's Assassination, and includes incredible historical content on Lincoln, the Assassination, Reconstruction, Lincoln's funeral, and news of a mourning nation.

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Like most Hollywood movies, "Lincoln" was exaggerated in some forms in order to appeal to viewers. Although very factual, there is a dramatic license added. The music added to certain scenes, very obviously, wasn't something there in real life. The times when things were shown of Lincoln in his own time, writing or thinking, aren't things that can be completely factual since no one truly know what happened behind the closed doors of his home.

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Mr. Lincoln's Boys
-Staton Rabin
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After watching the movie this would be a fun and excellent book to read. In "Lincoln", Tad is shown a lot and how close Abraham is to his son. This book continues to show that. Willie isn't in the movie but is in the book as he plays with Tad. "Mr. Lincoln's Boys", truly shows the kind character that is Abraha, Lincoln. No matter what his colleagues thought, he always made time for his sons and their little adventures. The book is very simple and is entertaining, but is still factual too. Staton lists his sources and explains the factual story behind the one made more fictional.

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I would recommend this movie to anyone, not just people interested in the topic. "Lincoln" is informative, all though there is some inaccuracy, and teaches it's viewers through visualization about the passing of the thirteenth amendment. The struggles and "behind the scenes" things that it portrays are not only interesting, and sometimes intense, but also very educational. I did not know anywhere near as much information as I did after watching this movie. If you want to know more about the passing of the thirteenth amendment and be entertained with excitement and great acting, "Lincoln" is a movie I would highly recommend.

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Abraham Lincoln was set on a mission to abolish slavery with the thirteenth amendment. It was his passion and courageous character that led him to fight for a cause for the greater good of mankind. This main idea of "Lincoln", was portrayed throughout the entire movie. Achieving the passing of the thirteenth amendment was not an easy task by far but one that Lincoln was set to accomplish. While wars were fought on the battlegrounds, he was fighting in the office to better the United States as they knew it. He did not know how it would affect the future of the nation, but he did know that he was called to achieve this for a great reason.

The plot starts out with Lincoln being introduced through various scenes. Him taking care of his son Tad, him talking to his wife privately, him talking to soldiers out at war. Then we are introduced with a problem, the passing of the thirteenth amendment. As there are debates between house members, and just common people it doesn't seem like the choice was going to be right, but Lincoln keep trying anyway. Eventually, the story is resolved when the thirteenth amendment is ratified. Yes, this doesn't solve every world problem and Lincoln is soon faced with death but he definitely changed the fate of our future.

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This movie showed me the struggles of passing an amendment. In this case, specifically the thirteenth amendment. To have certain criteria met and enough representatives to want to pass it takes a lot. It also showed me how much Abraham Lincoln was actually disliked. He had viewpoints that most didn't agree with when the majority of what we hear now is that he was a great president, loved by most. This conflict of having different opinions caused even more struggles to his amendment passing because so many people didn't want to so side with him just because of how what he said contradicted their opinions and what they wanted.

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"Lincoln" was very insightful as to a different perspective in the process of passing the thirteenth amendment but in levels of entertainment it isn't something that would appeal to all ages. Certain scenes could have been more exciting in how the scene was portrayed while still keeping it factual. the thing I noticed the most, was the bare moments without music or a lot of sound to keep the viewer interested. I would improve in that areas of music, maybe include more of Tad to appeal to younger ages, and be careful of dramatic license so all is factual. Our history is exciting without Hollywood's features, so just show that in the realm of film.

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This letter is written by Annie Davis. She wrote to the president almost 20 months after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued asking for freedom if she wasn't free already. Miss Davis was confused as to if anything changed for enslaved people in Maryland. Although there is no record of Lincoln responding his answer would have been no. This is because the Proclamation only impacted those who were in rebellion against the United States the day it was issued. I learned this and now it makes more of the movie understandable. Not everyone was happy with the Emancipation Proclamation but those who weren't heard were affected the most. Not everyone who deserved to free, that didn't do anything in rebellion, got to be free. Annie Davis is a prime example. She didn't do anything is rebellion and was just like any other slave, but her life was not changed after the Proclamation.

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Letter from Annie Davis to Abraham Lincoln

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Text adapted from "It is My Desire to be Free: Annie Davis's Letter to Abraham Lincoln and Winslow Homer's Painting A Visit from the Old Mistress" in the May/June 2010 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) publication Social Education.

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Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
- Allen C. Guelzo
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This book helped me understand the movie a lot. Guelzo does a wonderful job of putting a lot of very important documents all together to create one book of information. Lincoln himself is really shown and defined in the letters and things he writes. Then to the process of ratifying the thirteenth amendment, Guelzo takes each piece of writing and makes sense of it and its application. He very well defines each important quote from each writer and this helped me in my knowledge with the movie because I could relate not only the information from the documents but also the information about each person to who they were and how they were portrayed in the movie. I would definitely recommend reading it to gain more knowledge.