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Overall, watching Lincoln you get to see exactly what happened that day with both John Wilkes Booth and Lincoln you see that fatal shot that ended the life of our great President. However, you don't get the sense of devastation that the country felt because the assassination of Lincoln was at the end of the movie so you never really get to see just how greatly the impact of the death of Lincoln was to our country. Fortunately we have sources like that of Harper's Weekly that tells and explains and also has the interference of the country and how greatly affected everyone was by the assassination. Getting to read the newspaper that was put out just days after the assassination you really get the understanding of how everyone looked at Lincoln but you also get the knowledge of knowing that not just was our country affected politically because now at that point we had no President but the country as a whole was completely devastated. These are always in which Harper's Weekly helped me.

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You Found It! An in depth look at Civil War Medicine, with Pictures and medical procedures

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Overall, when reading the actual We Ask a Historian:Just how accurate is the movie 'Lincoln' a historian that spoke in the interview says that in the film they show Lincoln in the case of his prime reason for starting the Civil War was primarily based on freeing slaves at least that is what the film portrays unfortunately that is not correct in the case at all. In actuality Lincoln primary purpose was actually becasue he saw the progression that the south was making and he wanted to save the Union from that Lincoln wanted the north or the union to surpass the south which is the actual reasoning behind the start of the Civil War. However, that doesn't mean that Lincoln hadn't wanted to free the slaves because he did just not for the reasons that we had always thought. The reason for Lincoln wanting to free the slaves were for his own ethical gain in the case of he thought if we get rid of Slavery we bring down the south and the union of higher power. Unfortunately these things were not working for Lincoln political gain so we running for reelection in 1864 he had a better understanding for true Liberty and Union and that would be a country without slavery. So when running again he had the slogan Liberty and Union.

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A great many families going to the movies over this Thanksgiving weekend will probably see Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's new film starring Daniel Day-Lewis and an impressive cast.

Based on a biography by Doris Kearns Goodwin, but scripted by playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner, it's been very well-reviewed, but here's a question: How true to history is it?

Ronald White, author of A. Lincoln: A Biography, tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer that if a ninth-grader were to write a school paper based on the film, she'd find that its "dramatic core" is basically on target.

Interview Highlights
On the film's overall historical correctness
"The dramatic core of this remarkable four months of trying to pass the 13th Amendment [which banned slavery] is true. Is every word true? No. Did Lincoln say, 'And to unborn generations ...'? No. But this is not a documentary. And so I think the delicate balance or blend between history and dramatic art comes off quite well."
On William Seward and the three lobbyists he employs
"I think the movie is wanting in one way to disabuse us of the sense that Lincoln is this high-minded idealist who wouldn't stoop to using the machine to get votes. And [Secretary of State] Seward - remember, he was Lincoln's chief rival for the Republican nomination for president - is a shrewd politician. He's in this with Lincoln; he's not an unwilling co-conspirator. And he's willing to do things sort of outside the box, that Lincoln perhaps can't do. I doubt that Lincoln actually met these three men, but Seward delivers the votes [on the 13th Amendment] in a variety of ways."
On the over-the-top drama of House debates in the film
"You don't hear anything in the House anymore; you only hear someone giving an address for C-SPAN. I mean, one of the wonderful parts of the movie is that all of them are there, they're listening; some of them are going to be persuaded. It suggests an earlier time of a much more active Congress."
On radical Republican leader Thaddeus Stevens, played as a hero by Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln, but as a villain in 1942's Tennessee Johnson
"The earlier movie ... was produced before the civil rights movement, or in the Gone With the Wind movement, when yes, abolitionists were evil guys. Now, since the civil rights movement, we see them as courageous leaders advocating rights for African-Americans, and so we have a different viewpoint on Thaddeus Stevens. I think the movie gets it right here."
On Kate Maser's New York Times op-ed, which criticized the film for keeping black people quietly in the background
"I think that's a point well taken. And what the audience doesn't fully understand, in the final scene - almost the final scene - where suddenly African-Americans arrive in the balcony as the final vote is to be taken, that one of those is Charles Douglass, the son of Frederick Douglass. Charles had fought in the famous Massachusetts 54th; he will write to his father after that climactic vote: 'Oh, Father, how wonderful it is. People were cheering, they were crying tears of joy.' So that had the potential for more black agency, but it doesn't come to full fruition in the film."
On whether freeing the slaves was the prime motive of Abraham Lincoln, as the film suggests
"I think we still don't understand, sadly, although historians have been telling us this for a generation - that slavery really was a cause of the war. However, Lincoln did start the war to save the Union; he did not start the war originally to free the slaves. But that became a purpose for him when he realized that he could no longer move forward without a true understanding of liberty and union. He ran in 1864 for re-election on the slogan 'Liberty and Union,' and so it becomes the second purpose of the Civil War."
On Daniel Day-Lewis
"I was very pleased with Daniel Day-Lewis' depiction of Lincoln. He does a delicate balance between the homely Lincoln - the homespun Lincoln - and the high Lincoln of the second inaugural address. He walks like Lincoln, the way he puts his feet down one at a time. He talks like Lincoln - not the baritone voice of Disneyland, but the high tenor voice. Daniel Day-Lewis studied Lincoln intensely, and what comes out is a very accurate depiction of the spirit of the man."

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We Ask A Historian: Just How Accurate Is 'Lincoln'?

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Lincoln biographer Ronald White critiques the accuracy of Stephen Spielberg's new film about the Great Emancipator. White says that while not every detail of the film is true, "the delicate balance or blend between history and dramatic art comes off quite well."

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The Life of Abraham Lincoln by:Kate Harvey

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The Life of Abraham Lincoln by:Kate Harvey

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If you enjoy the movie Lincoln then I would recommend the book "The Life of Abraham Lincoln" by Kate Harvey this book gives you a background on Abraham Lincoln and why people decided to elect him as our sixteenth president.this book also gave you a better look into his early life as well as hes life as a Lawyer before he choose to run for president.

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I definitely recommend this movie as something to use for more information as far as learning more about the civil war. However, i personally don't think I would just watch this movie if i was at home and just wanted a movie to watch so for me i don't personally recommend this movie for entertainment purposes.I really loved this movie it gave me so much information and details on what was going on during the passing of the 13th amendment

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The main point and idea of the movie Lincoln in my eyes is the effort and struggle for our former President to pass the 13th amendment. I really think this played out throughout the entire movie because the whole movie you can see the struggles and the fights that Lincoln went through to try and get the amendment passed. To me this whole movie showed the other part of the civil war that we as students don't really learn about even when taking classes like ACP American History or even just taking a normal U.S History class.
The basic plot of the movie Lincoln is about the struggles that our 16th president had while trying to do what he felt was right in ending slavery.during this movie you learn all about the passing of the 13th amendment and how it happened and all the people that were involved in trying to get this amendment passed. Many people really were a huge part of getting the amendment passed people like Thaddeus Stevens,while watching this you get an inside look on Lincoln's struggling relationship with his wife Mary Todd Lincoln as well a]s the struggle of hes eldest son Robert Todd Lincoln wanting to leave law school and enlist in the military to fight in the civil war.

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Watching the movie Lincoln showed me as a History student some of the guys that we don't hear about in history class like Thaddeus Stevens who i had actually never heard of was a really huge and critical part in the passing of the 13th amendment. In which i learned that Thaddeus Stevens had spent most of his life trying to find a way to end slavery and with Lincoln as President he was able to do that.(the link below shows a biography of Thaddeus Stevens and his work as a congress man and how influential he was in the passing of the 13th amendment.)Also when watching the movie i saw and learned how many of the men in congress that wanted to end slavery had to many times change their position to get the passing of the 13th amendment many of the congressmen had to change what the said around many republican and democrats as well so that they could get the amendment passed since many thought the idea of absolute everyone no matter the color of their skin or anything else should have equal rights was too radical for many of members of the house of representatives to understand or open there minds to.

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Thaddeus Stevens was born on April 4, 1792 in rural Danville, Vermont. His father left the family soon thereafter. His mother moved the family to Peacham, Vermont in order to enroll the children at the Caledonia Grammar School. Upon his graduation from Caledonia, Stevens enrolled in Dartmouth College where he excelled academically. Stevens graduated from Dartmouth in 1814, and established a law practice in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1816.

Amidst a successful career as a lawyer in Gettysburg, Stevens began to venture into the world of politics. in 1822 he was elected to his first of six consecutive one-year terms as president of the Borough Council of Gettysburg. During this time he was an important figure in the Anti-Mason Movement, winning the nomination and eventually the election for Pennsylvania State Speaker of the House on the Anti-Masonry ticket. As Pennsylvania Speaker of the House, Stevens fought for universal education as well as the rights of various minority groups including Native Americans, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists, and Jews.

By 1837, Stevens grew to focus on a particular cause that would consume the majority of his political career: the abolition of slavery. During the 1837 Pennsylvania State Constitutional Convention, Stevens refused to sign the constitution due to a clause that guaranteed the disenfranchisement of African-Americans. Following this convention, Stevens came out in full support of the complete abolition of slavery and a non-racial definition of American citizenship. Stevens would hold this belief, with great fervor, for the remainder of his life. In 1848, Stevens successfully ran for Congress as part of the Whig party. However, his stance against the Compromise of 1850--believing a compromise on human rights to be immoral--led to political problems and his eventual departure from the Whig party and loss of his congressional seat. In 1855, Stevens officially joined the Republican Party and was reelected to Congress in 1858.

Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Thaddeus Stevens gained recognition for his tireless efforts in abolishing slavery. Throughout the war, Stevens worked hard to pass anti-slavery legislation. In 1861, he facilitated the passage of an act that would allow the Union to confiscate certain property belonging to the rebellion, which included their slaves. He also remained a constant source of pressure for Abraham Lincoln to emancipate the slaves and take a strong stance against slavery. In December, 1863, Stevens and fellow abolitionists in Congress began drafting the magnum opus of the abolition movement, the Thirteenth Amendment. The Thirteenth Amendment, which would abolish slavery throughout the United States, passed the Senate with relative ease, however debate over the amendment persisted in the House of Representatives as it faced strong opposition from the Democratic Party. On January 13, 1865, Thaddeus Stevens delivered the closing remarks in the debate over the amendment and soon after the amendment passed through the House of Representatives.

Congressman Stevens's contributions to the Union during the Civil War were not limited to his work in abolishing the institution of slavery. Perhaps due to his belief that the Confederacy was a revolutionary group and should be defeated with force, and his dislike of the Southern states due to their use of slavery, Stevens was instrumental in financing the Union efforts during the Civil War. Within days of being appointed to assist Lincoln's administration with financing the war, Stevens had structured a new emergency loan and crafted legislation that would pay the Union soldiers that had already responded to Lincoln's call for volunteers and allow the administration to borrow money for additional war expenses. Stevens's efforts to move these bills through the House quickly-such as cutting debate time on the bills to half a minute--earned him the nickname "Dictator." Stevens also helped pass the Legal Tender Act of 1862, which allowed the United States government to print money by its own credit instead of gold or silver.

Stevens remained in Congress for the remainder of his life. During the early years of the Reconstruction period, he was vocal about his views on how to treat the Southern states. The core of his belief was that the Confederacy had indeed created a separate nation, meaning that the Southern states were a conquered nation that could be reconstructed in any way the United States saw fit. Thaddeus Stevens died on August 11, 1868 at the age of 76.

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Thaddeus Stevens was born on April 4, 1792 in rural Danville, Vermont. His father left the family soon thereafter. His mother moved the family to Peacham, Vermont in order to enroll the children at the Caledonia Grammar School. Upon his graduation from Caledonia, Stevens enrolled in Dartmouth College where he excelled academically.

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The movie Lincoln had a lot of amazing things that helped with understanding our President on a level that we don't learn in our history classes.But the ending of the movie for me was not a ending that I had really wanted i would have definitely have put the assassination of Lincoln soon instead of it being at the end i would have made the ending of the movie about the 13th amendment and how even though we no longer had Lincoln i the office due to his death he was still able to make such a important impact on our country.I didn't necessarily see the point in having the parts of the movie that showed Lincoln's issues that he was having with his wife i just didn't see the relevance o having that portion of the movie there that for me was an unnecessary addition into the movie that wasn't really needed. I understand having it there because it shows that this war was not just effecting out president in a political way but also in his personal life with his wife but i just don't think i as a director would have put that in the movie

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During the Lincoln movie you never actually get to hear or see Lincoln give the Gettysburg address we only see a few young men at the begin of the movie quoting the address to Lincoln. So getting to read the Gettysburg address on the american battlefield trust website you get to see and I also get o understand what exactly the young men in the opening scene of Lincoln are quoting and why they all felt it was so important that they knew the address and were able to quote the address by heart. So for me this extra source of information helped me lot i understanding that being movie sequence

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Gettysburg Address
Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa.
Nov. 19th 1863.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Learn More: The Gettysburg Address

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The Gettysburg Address was delivered by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln: Death of the President By:Micheal Burlingame

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Abraham Lincoln: Death of the President By:Micheal Burlingame

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Overall, this certain document helped me understand just how greatly the death of our country's 16th president effected our country and the people as well.This gives me more information that i didn't get to see when watching the movie as far as how badly the death of Lincoln affected everything. it halted all celebration that the Union had planned because the whole country was mourning the death of one of the greatest Presidents the country had every had

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On April 3, 1865, Abraham Lincoln entered Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. Only hours before, President Jefferson Davis had fled. As Lincoln walked through the streets escorted by ten sailors, crowds of African Americans shouted "Glory to God! Glory! Glory! Glory! Glory, Hallelujah. The Great Messiah!"A few miles away, the great commander of the Confederate Army of Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, his army reduced to 35,000 weary men, confronted Grant's 120,000 bluecoats. Faced with the inevitable, Lee, making the most difficult decision of his life, sent word to Grant that he would meet him in a farm house at the village of Appomattox Courthouse to surrender his army and thereby end the war. The surrender occurred on April 9. As a sign of Union respect for Confederate valor, the defeated officers of Lee's army were allowed to retain their swords.

Five days later, as the victorious Lincoln watched Laura Keene's light comedy Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., a darkly clad figure burst through the door of Lincoln's box in the balcony and shot the President point-blank in the back of his head. Mary Todd Lincoln screamed and tried to shield Lincoln with her body. The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, leaped from the box to the stage to make his escape, shouting "Sic semper Tyrannis! [Thus always to Tyrants] The South is avenged!" Ten days later, after a near hysterical search by the army and the Secret Service, Booth was discovered hiding in a barn in rural Virginia. In the attempt to capture him, the barn was set on fire and Booth either shot himself or was killed in the shoot-out.

The wound to Lincoln's head took the President's life early the next morning. For the citizens of the Union, Lincoln's death muted the celebration of victory over the Confederacy. After seven days of official mourning in the capitol, Lincoln's coffin was carried on a slow-moving funeral train back to Springfield, Illinois. All along the 1,700 mile route, in small towns and villages, in fourteen different cities, including New York, and across the Midwestern countryside, people gathered to see the train pass and to offer their last respects to the "Great Emancipator." Thousands of Americans remembered over the years the sight of the passing funeral train as one of the most deeply emotional events of their lives. Among those watching Lincoln's final journey to Springfield was a young Theodore Roosevelt who observed Lincoln's coffin pass in parade from the upstairs window of his family home in Manhattan.

Lincoln's assassin was the member of a well-known acting family and an ardent Confederate sympathizer. For most of the war, Booth, a Shakespearean performer, continued his theatrical career in the North while brooding and plotting to assist the Confederate cause by kidnapping Lincoln and holding him hostage as a bargaining chip. When he heard Lincoln endorse black suffrage on April 11, 1865, Booth conspired with several accomplices to kill Lincoln, Secretary of State William H. Seward, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and General Ulysses S. Grant. Four of his coconspirators were convicted and hanged for taking part in the plot or for having known about it in advance.

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Abraham Lincoln: Death of the President | Miller Center

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On April 3, 1865, Abraham Lincoln entered Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. Only hours before, President Jefferson Davis had fled. As Lincoln walked through the streets escorted by ten sailors, crowds of African Americans shouted "Glory to God! Glory! Glory! Glory! Glory, Hallelujah.